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Caring for the People Who Care for our Children: I wonder what the “we love babies” crowd would say to this?

Childcare workers deserve better pay and better treatment. Period.

A Japanese university is dispatching female students as “angels” to increase girls’ interest in science. Very cool. Thanks to Cara for the link.

Montana Right-to-Life endorses a neo-Nazi candidate. Because we… love… babies!

A new book explores mother-daughter conversations. Sounds very interesting. Hopefully I’ll get my hands on it when I get back to the states.

In Support of an Amendment Banning Fag Burning.

From Feministing, we find this little gem: A baseball player physically assaults his wife in public, and Major League Baseball responds that it has no policy regarding spousal abuse, because that’s a private issue. If that wasn’t enough, now t-shirts are being sold sporting the player’s number and the words “Wife Beater.” Because wife-beating is as American as apple pie.

8 thoughts on Odds and Ends

  1. I think that crowd would disregard any article like this with the thought that women should be home with their own children, not paying other people to watch them, no matter how much or how little that pay is. I did childcare during college and also while I stayed at home for a few years with my kids and it was definitely a financial risk. I had people pay me late, not pay me at all and I had to quit one job because the woman I was working for (she ran a daycare in her home and I assisted her at the time) slapped one of the preschoolers across the face. It’s tough out there, I hope they do get their union.

  2. Childcare remains a sensitive subject placing mothers and childcare workers in damned if you do, damned if you don’t, situations. I’m convinced this culture is anti-mother and thus anti-child………i.e the extreme vested interest in the mommy-wars that does nothing but create this mythological divide between women and mothers. Who benefits from that?

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  6. Well fer cryin’ out loud, for thousands of years women have been taking care of kids and babies for free and now they want to get paid? And like they want to make a living at it?

    I think that crowd would disregard any article like this with the thought that women should be home with their own children, not paying other people to watch them, no matter how much or how little that pay is.

    Absolutely, see the Wal Mart debate, what happens to kids and poor families is of no interest in our great society. And think of the good old days with street urchins shining shoes, selling newspapers and sleeping on sidewalk grates. Ain’t those just the best times? Boy, what we need around here is a little more hunger and neglect.

    The ballplayer would only get introuble if he broke his hand on her face. That would be insensitive to his teammates who are counting on him.

    Exactly.

  7. On the DV note, I would like to know why a man, who guts and slits his wife’s throat, is only charged with malicious wounding. wtf? I also think we need to add on an Endangerment to Children law for all the husbands/boyfriends who repeatedly beat the shit out of their wives/girlfriends while the kids watch.

    Also, why does a man get charged with felony child neglect for assaulting his wife/girlfriend on the sidewalk in front of their house, causing her to drop their 5month old head first onto the concrete, yet he gets charged with misdemeanor assault for hitting the wife/girlfriend?

    Answer: Because DV is still only a misdemeanor charge in most states!

    The way the media portrays DV, by not taking it seriously themselves and helping in that, “She must have done something to make him beat/kill her,” or “She must have done something to make him that angry,” defense makes light of the situation so yep, people end up wearing those tanks called “wife beaters” and like the shirts in the example above because they don’t realize it’s not 1 or 2 isolated events….way to ostracize the victims and show them it’s all their fault (sarcasm).

    argh. I hate people sometimes, I really do.

  8. WRT the baseball player–I believe he got booed here in Boston.

    Good. I’m embarrassed that my local authorities are treating this like a joke; the Boston Herald reported today that Myers didn’t have to show up for his court date next week. Lovely.

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