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Since then, though, she's been more effective at pissing me off than making me think. Her whole half-informed ahistorical riff on housewives and stay-at-home-moms had me actually throwing the magazine on to the floor. If I could have articulated my reaction more clearly (and if I wasn't reading the magazine three months after its publication date), I might have written a letter to the editor; instead I contented myself with repeatedly kicking the magazine's small papery corpse as I walked past it.
The new Atlantic came today, with a big pink-and-yellow mother-and-baby cover featuring a story by Flanagan on the nanny culture in working-professional families. Based on the first page and a half, I'm guessing that it covers the nanny culture with about as much sophistication as The Nanny Diaries. I can only hope that Flanagan manages half the humor and fun of the chick-lit classic, because I know that I'm going to be reading her piece (titled, incidentally, "How Serfdom Saved the Women's Movement") this weekend, and I'd like to not do too much frothing at the mouth.
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