The Federalist has an excellent article on cooking and the Left's resentment of effort, talking about how Slate’s Amanda Marcotte has denounced the tyranny of home-cooked meals.
Yet a longstanding theme of modern feminism is upper-middle-class, college-educated women looking down on and condescending to poor women. So Marcotte regards these low-income women as helpless and wonders, in effect, why they don’t just order takeout like sensible career women who live in Brooklyn.
Ah, sounds a lot like "Let them eat cake!"
It’s actually a diatribe against ideals, against striving, against ambition. This is a huge theme of feminism, the idea of being oppressed by “expectations” about all of the things you are supposed to do in life. Yet feminism is just being used as a mask for the real complaint. It’s a way of giving a respectable cover for something that sounds like insufferable whining if you say it on its own.
Cooking is expressing love and concern for your family by supplying them with healthy food, but the Left doesn't understand that.
What’s significant is that there is a constituency out there that is ready to complain about each and every basic requirement of human life, to resent the effort of taking responsibility for it, and to denounce as tyranny any expectation that life is supposed to be about work, effort, and striving.
[Holy cow, people! Read the article and quit obsessing about the word "Left" - way to miss the entire point of the article. Remember, as HHL stated: "To the Objectors here. You do realize that "Feminism is of the Left" does NOT MEAN "All on the Left are Feminists", right?" So, please next time buy smaller panties so that they don't bunch up so much :) - oh and most of you, whose panties aren't in a bunch, and who read the article, thank you for your comments that relate to the content of the article!]
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