Stoopid

The conspiracy theorists in the tax-denial movement remind me a lot of the right winger nutters, like, say, Phillys Shclafly (did I spell that right?) who was opposed to the equal rights amendment because paying fair wages to women would cause communism. Or something like that. Her logic wasn’t clear but it had something to do with free day-care for young children being socialist, unlike free education for kids over six, which is to be expected.

Anyway, “The Hearts of Men” told me a lot about what economic policy should be to achieve fair and just wages for women, and explained that the early-20th-century ideals of the “family wage” and the male breadwinner are basically gone, or at the very least can’t be relied on as instruments of social policy any more (if they ever were reliable). But it didn’t tell me anything about the nature of committed relationships or how to keep a man or anything like that.