Image: asleep at the table by obo-bobolina

Well, no more than it can be in a briefcase, but I’m interested to hear other Tumblr (and elsewhere) Feministas' responses to Mia Freedman’s column in yesterday’s Fairfax papers.

In an article than in many ways is a bit “opt-out revolution”, Freedman writes:

Was my friend dating in some weird retro time bubble? Apparently not. The Courier Mail recently declared the Young Domestic Goddess movement an official social phenomenon: “The seductive appeal of cooking, housekeeping and family is increasingly favoured by women tired of pushing the boundaries of the ever-present glass ceiling.” (Sorry, you lost me at “seductive appeal of housekeeping” but whatever. I’m clearly not the demographic). A couple my friends are in their twenties, both ambitious but equally keen on marriage and babies. They’re not particularly compelled to ‘have it all’, not at the same time anyway. “I have nothing to prove,” said the single 26-year-old. “I love my job but I know I’ll enjoy being a wife and mother too and I imagine it will be just as fulfilling.”

You can read the rest of the article here.

Oh, let me count the shades of grey.

A lot of corporate jobs are soul destroying, but as Betty Friedan and Urban Baby showed us, so Domestic Goddess-hood. Sure, women have the right to “choose their choice”, but our choices have political ramifications - why is it women who are allegedly opting for the domestic sphere? Why not young men? And why aren’t workplaces being reshaped to make talented people of both sexes happier about staying the distance (or maybe they are - most places I’ve worked have been pretty good)? And there’s nothing anti-feminist about being able to cook.

— mamamia.com.au