It was a crazy week in blogland with one article triggering a fury in the feminist/mother/feminist mother corner of the web. Luckily, these events don’t happen too often, because it really does take over one’s life and no one can afford to let that happen every day. But it is also so enormously fruitful as we all throw out our first ideas, get feedback, and then hopefully get smarter by the end of it all. One of the amazing functions of the blogosphere.

Awkwardly, Linda Hirshman was reading the commentary and appearing in some blog comments. I am sure she is not reading my blog anymore, but …. The blogosphere is a tough place where we get to use bad language and trash talk each other. We are using our blogs to respond to things that appear in the media. For most, this is the only opportunity to “respond” to experts and elites, though few really expect that the original author reads this stuff. If we knew you were going to read our posts, we would have been nicer. Your article stirred us to put some half baked ideas into print and to be consumed by ideas for a week. Thanks for that.

I have some final thoughts that I have buried under the fold since I assume everyone is sick of the topic, but I still want to get these ideas off my chest.

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