We need to find that young lady woman a baby daddy. How can she be a real red-blooded all-American girl when her baby doesn’t have a daddy? The baby will end up pregnant even though he’s a boy, since those liberals are trying to subvert God’s own Nature through their science. And a school dropout. A homeschool drop out, which means he’ll go from sitting on the Lazy-Boy playing video games all day to sitting on the Lazy-Boy playing video games all night.

And now that Bristol’s a born-again virgin, who will guard her verginity for her, which women like to hand over to their men like it’s a handbag and they have their hands full shopping? Her little man will be too busy smoking crack on account of being raised by a single mother, the slut.

How could I have forgotten Ross, Mervyn’s, and TJMaxx? Plus we have a kick-ass Goodwill that keeps me in Liz Claiborne sporty separates.

That’s just like my life! Well, almost.

Yes, that was First Lady hopeful Ann Romney Susan of Texas in Houston Saturday, looking very Palm Beach-y tired and hot in her hot pink tunic Snorgtee shirt and jeans with her shoulder-length blond brown hair. The only thing missing was the Helga Wagner necklace homemade jewlery.

Mitt’s missus She spent four hours with Alfred Fiandaca, her old pal from Boston at the dry cleaner, grocery store and discount bakery who closed the store for her so she could shop in peace without any worries about paparazzi grabbing a shot of her in the fitting room ignored her. Trying on a little something to wear to tonight’s big dinner at Darlene and Jerry Jordan’s her own house, perhaps? When they’re paying 50k a couple coupon clipping, a lady wants to look good.

Finally, Ann she strolled out, shopping bags in hand, smiled at the small crowd gathered on the sidewalk car waiting to take her parking spot, climbed into the big black car waiting at the curb thrid-world compact car, and drove off.

We stay-at-home mothers are all alike.

Yes, but no. Very few people will say that holding two jobs is easy; many will say that being a housewife is easy. There are some people who will try to make working parents feel guilty but they are either jerks, politicians, or salesmen.

Yes, making this a woman issue instead of an economic issue is clever.

No, it isn’t secure. But we made the choice that was better for us at the time and we accepted the consequences. I don’t judge people who chose a career over staying home with their kids and I don’t accept others’ judgment of my choice. We all make choices that affect our income.

If poor women don’t want to work two jobs they don’t have to have kids they can’t afford. If middle class women don’t want to put their kids in daycare they can quit their job. If those women don’t want to quit they cannot be with their children when they are small. These decisions must be made individually based on the family’s circumstances because there are always downsides to every choice, here in our capitalist wonderland. Maybe you have handicapped kids, maybe you don’t have the patience to raise a pack of kids 24/7, maybe you don’t want to be dependent on your husband, maybe you don’t want to wear used clothes or eat at home all the time. It depends on a lot of factors.

But no matter what people decide, we know that most of them will say housewives are lazy and self indulgent, and lucky to give up everything our society considers of value–money, respect and freedom.

We obviously think alike.

The vast majority of the stay-at-home parents I know around the country all are comfortably middle to upper-middle class, without the need for a second income.

That’s different from “select minority” and “privileged.” People with a middle class income can stay home; I do it. We live as our parents did–very few vacations, old cars, little discretionary income. The bad part is that our parents could afford a better house and had cheaper medical care and therefore a little more extra money.

The Romneys are full of baloney because Ann’s role of stay-at-home mom is nothing like almost everyone else’s role of being a stay-at-home mom.

The real issue is that it’s much better to be middle class than poor. Poor mothers have always had to work. Middle class women can choose to be home with their kids if they don’t mind being much poorer than they would be otherwise. The solution is to make sure that wages are not so low that both parents have to work and one cannot stay home to take care of their kids if they so choose. If you are poor you’re screwed and staying home from crap jobs would be heavenly. If you are middle class, staying home is the sacrifice of a work life more pleasant than unpaid labor and child care but without the heavy burden of holding down two jobs. If you are upper class, life is wonderful, since you can stay home and pay someone to do all the unpleasant work.

Women aid and abet their mistreatment by society by showing deference to religion. Religions offer authoritarians a hierarchy to live under, gives people a purpose to live for, and offers to defeat their enemies while praising their virtues. There is no way we will ever be able to overcome that dynamic. Churches gain power by scapegoating women and they are not going to stop. We must refuse to acknowledge their authority at all times. You don’t have to disrespect faith to disrespect religious authority.

Walsh gets a lot of very ugly attacks. You have to hit back very hard with sexist assholes; they attack because they think they can force you to submit to their manly superiority.

did Megan ever finish her multi-part takedown of Elizabeth Warren

It’s Day 672 in the Warren countdown!

Ross Douthat is infringing on my right to be free of Ross Douthat.

You know what else ought to be safe, legal and rare? Ross Douthat.

Run for your lives, women. McMegan’s in the kitchen with a turkey baster.

If the Catholic Church is so upset by contraceptives, why don’t they excommunicate all the Catholic women who use birth control, which is nearly all the Catholic women? Persecution, like women, belongs in the home!

But then women might stop going to church and that would cut into the Holy Revenue, not to mention the next generation of abuse victims.

I think you mean that if Our Megan wrote a column, had it reprinted in multiple Atlantic Media venues, moderated the influential Aspen Ideas Festival, appeared on tv and radio regularly, crossed the country on speaking engagements paid for by Pete “Social Security will die!” Peterson and snagged a book contract to talk about (others’) failure, would she actually exist?

Amazing. The woman and her husband make over $300,000.00 a year, plus fellowships and speaking fees and God knows what else, but that’s not enough. She has to try to make a few bucks off of her readers as well. Greedy, gullible and stupid–a con man’s dream girl.

McArdle would buy anything if you told her it was exclusive and expensive. She’d buy spit if you told her it was produced by nuns in a remote village in France and only six people owned it.

The best part of the whole thing is that she has absolutely no idea how to cook. Some day someone will have to tell her that just because your guests praise your food doesn’t mean they are being sincere; they are just keeping their options open in case they ever want to write for The Atlantic.

Who would have thought that a group known for being proudly ignorant and insistently gullible would make a perfect mark for a con?