“[Laughs] I write about and talk about the importance of connections, but my wife actually does it. She is actually the one who joins everything, who has been a tutor and a teacher and a terrific mother and an even better grandmother.” Oh, the layers in that “[Laughs]” #RememberInaCaro
Robert Putnam may know why we're lonely, but tellingly it's Putnam's wife who--like millions of other women--does the work of keeping Putnam from falling into loneliness himself. And we wonder why men are pushing marriage and trying to limit divorce. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/13/m...
The author of “Bowling Alone” warned us about social isolation and its effect on democracy a quarter century ago. Things have only gotten worse.
Rather telling he then goes on to say that most people don't care about politics, and the example he gives is on abortion.
Indeed. bsky.app/profile/jess...
Note here, the laughter. As I talk about in Holding It Together, men often use laughter to paper over the inconvenient gender inequalities in their own domestic lives. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/697130...
Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women. Holding It Together chronicles the causes and dire consequences. America runs on women—women who are tasked with holding...