Emma’s Reviews > All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood > Status Update
Emma
is 22% done
I was thinking about putting this book down, but the author just turned it around for me with this one line: "I should pause here to note that this conversation... that all couples have about who does what -- happens at the expense of a more important conversation: does the state have an obligation or moral imperative to help out [parents]?" Winning me back with structural arguments!
— Jul 13, 2020 01:11AM
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Emma
is 50% done
There's good information in this book... and there's also a lot of white-parents-as-default (ex. only telling us the race of the interviewee when they're POC, letting white parents' racist comments about their Asian-American neighbors slide with little more than an acknowledgement of "stereotyping")
— Jul 24, 2020 02:01AM
Emma
is 20% done
there's some gross, unhelpful stuff in the marriage chapter... quotes from moms and dads that are just real heteronormative and stereotypical and un-funny
— Jul 13, 2020 12:33AM
