Mon 23 Nov 2009
Here’s your weekly Brzezinski post
Posted by Ronit under Alumni, Blather, Mika Brzezinski '89 at 12:55 pm
Here’s something about babies and work and stuff. I think there’s something in there about how women who step out of the career track to raise their kids become less “mentally and physically interesting” to their life partner.
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Kirsten says:
Well, at least she’s getting attention…. Seriously, she needs to stop generalizing.
kthomas says:
Kirsten,
This post has been in my mind for quite a while– partially because I read an earlier MB-related post while looking over a longer article on female identity in Warschau by a (female) artist in the Sunday magazine of Suddeutscher Zeitung, partially because of what it says (unsaid) about female aspirations in the US, partially–
Well, many reasons. I’ve been trying to think of a way to express my reactions to your comment, without psychologizing Mika, in public forum (much less on ephBlog). I’ve yet to find a way, a phrasing, to say what I wish, without potentially seeming to say something negative about Mika.
She does seem to be globalizing, generalizing, projecting her experience– and I hope we might all be sympathetic, empathetic, (the word here, in English, doesn’t matter much to me) to the why of that, to the circumstances.
I have a sort of flippant suggestion as well– the thought has occurred to me, that Mika certainly has the resources, and the werewithal, to move her family to a flat in Warschau, and to rediscover the legacy of the Polish language and culture– and– I hardly know if she would be sympathetic to such a suggestion–
well–
kthomas says:
English uses “a public forum,” doesn’t it? What’s the function of that?