Word: class
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...agree with my friend Jenny that it is possible to avoid labels. At least, I (sadly) believe that no time in the future will people be able to look at others as JUST people, without categorizing them by race and sex and class and everything else. The idea is horribly pragmatic, and pessimistic, but I can not avoid believing that it is true...
...insistence that people should just ignore these factors reeks of the kind of placating "polite feminism" or gradual action that does more damage to rights groups by discouraging any kind of real change. It is only a modified version of the "don't make waves" theory that the privileged class feeds the rest to ensure they remain...
...more chores in the home than the "transitional" husbands. But transitional couples, caught between new ideology and old sex roles, may cooperate in believing a family myth that the husband does half the babyminding and the chores. In fact, only 20% of Hochschild's couples, who ranged from working class to upper middle class, split household tasks and child rearing equally...
...well-publicized anecdotal examples, virtually all the evidence contradicts this common white stereotype. Take black male college graduates, likely beneficiaries of affirmative action. In 1984 their average yearly earnings were just 74% of their white counterparts'. Popular misperceptions also exaggerate the rate at which the black middle class is growing. Between 1970 and 1986, the proportion of black families with inflation-adjusted incomes over $35,000 merely increased from...
...some ways a dangerous sport too, but less for the fish than for the angler's relatives. Fly-fishermen can quickly become world-class bores. Solitude becomes an end in itself. Spouses bristle at the suggestion that family vacations should consist of two weeks at some bug-infested fishing camp in Forsaken, Mont. Dinner-party invitations trail off as conversation seems to center on the pleasures of fishing nymphs in deep riffles or the relative merits of bamboo and graphite fly rods. Children growl at the proposal that the backyard pool be returned to nature and converted to a trout...