Father Knows Worst
Why paternity doesn't suit Hollywood.
Gaby Wenig
April 26, 2004, Vol. 9, No. 31
I ONCE ASKED my Jewish studies teacher, a mother of eleven, why women were expected to take care of children, and not men. "Women have breasts," she said, enunciating every word slowly while gesturing vaguely at her chest, "that they use to feed the babies. Men don't." In the years since, when I read serious feminist tomes about a woman's role in society or had lengthy discussions with friends about working mothers, or even when I listened to university lecturers and petulant classmates prattle on about "essentialism," the audacious simplicity of Mrs.
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