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In the New Yorker...
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on October 09, 2023, 01:52:55 pm ---Louisa May Alcott lived in relatively modern times, and in Greta Gerwig's adaptation of Little Women, the mother says, "I'm angry every day of my life." Of course, she seemed to have a no-good husband who ditched the family while he went off to do whatever it was he did.
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As I recall, he was a chaplain on the front lines of the Civil War and the only way he got to come home was because he was wounded. Marmie had to drop everything and go tend to him in the hospital because there were no nurses available. So I can understand why she was angry. And those lectures about the dangers of wearing corsets!
Thanks for telling us about how the NYT announced that it was all right to complain about motherhood. I missed that...too busy parenting to read the NYT! I admire anyone who can write about parenting when they're in the throes of it. I think I had "mommy brain fog" for years!
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on October 09, 2023, 01:41:10 pm ---So I actually really relate to the book author. The article writer, on the other hand, I kept thinking must not have any kids -- her response echoed what I've heard from people without kids. But at one point she briefly mentions her own, so I decided she must just have had a really different experience.
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To use a phrase that's overused, in my opinion (to the point I'm sick of it) ... "Thanks for sharing."
No, I do appreciate the input.
Re: oppositional defiant disorder: Everything is a disorder today. No one has alcoholism anymore; they have alcohol use disorder. Smoke too much weed? You're not a pothead, you have cannabis use disorder. New mothers are no longer subject to postpartum depression; now they may suffer from major depressive disorder with peripartum onset. The list goes on--this from the organization that once characterized homosexuality as a ... disorder.
The word woke comes to mind. ...
Front-Ranger:
What a coincidence--today Claudia Goldin won the Nobel Prize in economics for her work on women in the workplace.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on October 09, 2023, 04:07:58 pm ---Re: oppositional defiant disorder: Everything is a disorder today. No one has alcoholism anymore; they have alcohol use disorder. Smoke too much weed? You're not a pothead, you have cannabis use disorder. New mothers are no longer subject to postpartum depression; now they may suffer from major depressive disorder with peripartum onset. The list goes on--this from the organization that once characterized homosexuality as a ... disorder.
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I never called it that when my son was young. I just thought that was a fancy label for difficult. Not so much woke, but a way to turn it into a disorder that benefits from "therapy." So that much more $ for the psychologists who come up with those classifications in the DSM.
Years later, though, when I've looked into this on more websites and Facebook groups, I've begun to think there's more to it. ODD is said to have some weird little traits like kids speaking gibberish, which my son did a lot (he could speak perfectly fine English, he just liked to slip into gibberish now and then), that it's related to OCD, which my son had a touch of and is elsewhere in the family, which is related to Tourette's, which nobody in the family has to my knowledge but ever so slightly resembles speaking gibberish.
Front-Ranger:
I finally am back to receiving my print issues and I see I missed an article about pockets. One person wrote in about how she strips the pockets off her clothes and replaces them with good deep ones.
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