Somehow I missed her April 23 feature, "Mr. Moms (by Way of Fortune 500)." Is it as bad as I think it is, you ask? No! It's worse!
Even for the Times, this is pretty rich stuff. Dads who used to make more money than you now have to go to PTA meetings! Where they are hailed as saviors, apparently. Because everybody knows women can't do math. And who do you turn to when you can't do math? The guys who just got laid off from their fantastically highly-paid Wall Street finance jobs for DESTROYING THE KNOWN UNIVERSE.
The new prevalence of fathers around town is bittersweet for mothers, teachers and others. On the one hand, the PTA can use all the help it can get from men with financial expertise at a time when the proposed school budget is under enormous pressure. And women are happy to see stay-at-home husbands building closer relationships with their children. But one little-spoken effect is an uneasy feeling that these highly successful men are facing the pain and potential shame of being out of work.
Oh, the shaaaaaaaaaaame! Who knew being a regular person was so dirty?
Sarah Kershaw, we're onto you.
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yes, it's so terrible that men are spending time with their children, reevaluating their lives as slaves to banking, etc., helping the PTA, which any member will tell you if you bothered to asked, can use any and all help, and making their whole families happy, while willing to sacrifice lower salaries. oh, and as i read the article i noticed that the men interviewed were not in fact bernie madoff, but men working for the men who destroyed the universe!
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