Hanna Rosin Quotes
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On the one hand, parents want their children to swim expertly in the digital stream that they will have to navigate all their lives; on the other hand, they fear that too much digital media, too early, will sink them.
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What I've found is that there is an enormous shift taking place in our society. Suddenly there are all young women who are better educated and earning more money than men their age. When young couples today decide to marry, they have very different expectations of one another than their parents did. And there's even been change at the very top of the career ladder. People tend to underestimate that.
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As we get used to women in power, we are likely to discover that they behave much like powerful men - vain, entitled, always looking for more.
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I could do a franchise for the end of everything. 'The End of Dogs,' 'The End of Cats.'
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The global economy is becoming a place where women are more successful than men, and these economic changes are starting to rapidly affect our culture - what our romantic comedies look like, what our marriages look like, what our dating lives look like, and our new set of superheroes.
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Maybe there's something about the outsiderness of being Jewish that makes for a fiery feminist type.
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I think we should all call ourselves feminists.
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In my mother's day, she didn't go to college. Not a lot of women did. Now for every two men who get a college degree, three women will do the same.
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When women gain access to higher education and then suddenly start doing better at it than the men, that can really throw the prevailing social order out of balance. That's exactly what's happened in South Korea, which is a highly patriarchal society. They started educating women, and then they were no longer the women that society wants them to be. That caused a real cultural crisis.
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The launch of a space shuttle can still make you weep with amazement and wonder, if you happen to be watching it.
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Men aren't able to find jobs anymore, and they're withdrawing from society, essentially creating a matriarchy. For the upper social classes, marriage is still a successful model, but for poorer people it's not.
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We can keep whatever we like about manhood but adjust the parts of the definition that are keeping men back.
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If you look at total numbers in the working and middle class, men still on average make more than women.
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Men are now also in the minority among the entering traditionally male-dominated areas such as law and medicine. Finance and politics are still firmly in male hands, but in many other areas it seems the proportions are shifting in women's favor. Boys are doing worse at school and university. It's only logical that this imbalance, which can be observed in most industrialized countries, will change conditions on the job market.
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Hollywood is in somewhat the same position as Las Vegas these days. It went from being the capital of sin to Disneyland, and now it's landed somewhere in between. It tries to keep the sins hidden away and outwardly present itself as a defender of American virtues: justice, individual freedom, and the power of one innocent soul to save the world.
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The general image of a man in an American sitcom is like a complete moron. You'd think the industry was run by a feminist cabal.
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Every new medium has, within a short time of its introduction, been condemned as a threat to young people. Pulp novels would destroy their morals, TV would wreck their eyesight, video games would make them violent.
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The average American worker gets something like 14 days of paid vacation. In my school, you'd use up ten of those taking care of your kids on teacher professional days, then tack on a couple more for kids getting sick.
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Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.
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Every congresswoman surely endures the same strains that drive some of her male colleagues to have affairs: lots of travel, families far away, heady work that makes a domestic routine seem distant and boring. But the stakes are much higher for women, because they are still judged by a different standard.
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If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
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Attachment parenting demands not just certain actions you take with your baby but also certain emotional states to accompany those actions.
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Men need marriage more than women do. In fact, they need it to survive.
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Although they are unfailingly gracious, evangelicals are not so good at respecting professional boundaries.
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I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure.
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Pop culture is like our subconscious.
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In American fertility clinics, 75 percent of couples are requesting girls and not boys.
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If my own current husband was suddenly a stay-at-home dad, it would be emasculating. That would be hard for me.
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It's a fact that within the space of a few decades, women have achieved a massive shift in the role they play - in the way they act in public, and in the way they have conquered areas of the working world that were until recently considered a man's domain.
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Breast-feeding does not belong in the realm of facts and hard numbers; it is much too intimate and elemental.
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