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Today's Guardian explores the new movement of ironic 1950s Domesticity that's sweeping England. To Americans accustomed to the rash of Stitch 'n Bitch books, knitting clubs, the pastel oceans of cupcakes sweeping our city's streets and tongue-in-cheek hostessing like Amy Sedaris's I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence, this will sound familiar. The article details the flights of domesticity of hip twenty-somethings who revel in tea dances and cupcake-based performance art (as distinct from the decidedly unironic domesticity of the also-British nutso "Time Warp Wives.") "The cupcake has become the symbol of this new movement, with afternoon tea and baking also seeing a renaissance. Much of this new domesticity is ironic — cooking and knitting carried out with tongue encased firmly in cheek." More »
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Hey guys, guess what we're going to talk about again? Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, race and gender! Today, the issue is brought to us by Ms. co-founder Letty Cottin Pogrebin and her daughter Abigail (pictured), who duke it out over on PBS because Letty can't understand why her daughter is for Obama. To Letty, "the pinnacle defines the possibility," and until a woman is president, young girls will not be able to live without a glass ceiling. She is "hurt" that Abigail won't vote for Hillary, "Because it's kinda like, as a woman, when a woman finally deserves to be where she is, somebody comes in and undercuts her. And it's just like a feeling we've all known, we've all known where you've worked hard at your job, he comes in, young whippersnapper, and you know, he can play golf with everybody and he can kind of charm, and he takes precedence." More »
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