October 21, 2014
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However, Rhinehart claims that surviving on this unappetizing beverage has freed up at least an hour in his busy day. This seems low, but then again, he’s young, single, and male. Loopy liberal writer Amanda Marcotte“whom I normally despise, too”took a lot of stick for her Slate.com essay denouncing the “home cooked meal” ideal as unfair to women.
But it is, since we”re the ones who still get stuck juggling domestic stuff along with our real jobs. Marcotte foolishly larded her piece with the usual dubious “studies” and quotes from “experts,” burying the lede in the last paragraph:
The main reason that people see cooking mostly as a burden is because it is a burden. It’s expensive and time-consuming and often done for a bunch of ingrates who would rather just be eating fast food anyway.
Indeed. Our stubborn refusal to simply call things by their rightful names is the source of so much societal mischief, and grief. Some things, to some people”be it cooking, or that other oft-cited obligation, caring for elderly parents”are a burden.
But”and this is important”that doesn”t mean you don”t do them.
Well, at least until somebody finally perfects an affordable, real-life Rosie the Robot to deal with all that stuff. That damn Rhinehart kid is probably wasting all his precious time working on a stupid flying car.
