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June 12, 2008

Straight people: Start being more like non-straight people
Many of the couples in Belkin's article used an organization called Third Path, to help them figure out how to organize work and family time. Third Path will give couples "one-on-one coaching to develop their unique work-family solution" for the low, low price of about $125 per hour. Third Path helpfully suggests that you could give (or request) this coaching as a wedding or baby shower gift. Ew.
This week the Times also published a piece on what straight folks can learn from same-sex couples,(something Belkin also discusses):
"In heterosexual couples, women did far more of the housework; men were more likely to have the financial responsibility; and men were more likely to initiate sex, while women were more likely to refuse it or to start a conversation about problems in the relationship. With same-sex couples, of course, none of these dichotomies were possible, and the partners tended to share the burdens far more equally."
So the take home message seems to be: Be fairly wealthy, be more like gay people, pay for expensive life coaching.
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As predicted, the Equal Parenting story is already #1 most emailed article on NYTimes.com, and it doesn't even really come out for 3 more days! I swear the Times keeps getting Lisa Belkin to write different versions of this same article over and over again because they know that every time, people will read them, get pissed off, and link to them on their blogs with a lot of angry class-conscious vitriol.
Oh, right. Crap.
Posted by: amy at June 12, 2008 2:15 PM