Labor of Love (2016), by Moira Weigel

Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating (2016), by Moira Weigel, is a nice, short book about the history of “dating,” or, if you like, the replacement of Traditional Courtship, beginning around 1890 but really getting going after 1920. This book could have gone wrong in many ways. One of the reviews calls it “aContinue reading “Labor of Love (2016), by Moira Weigel”

This is the Ugly Face of Oppression

A day in the life of an upper-middle-class young mother and her baby, in Tokyo. Most young Japanese moms don’t wear kimono when out about town. But, I wish they did. (This woman spent five years as a Geisha apprentice, and is definitely a Level 5 Housewife when it comes to traditional clothing.) If youContinue reading “This is the Ugly Face of Oppression”

No Boyfriends

In Traditional Courtship, there are no boyfriends. That is a new invention of “dating.” It seems that there are a number of women with a “no sex before marriage” approach that nevertheless have boyfriends. This is not Traditional Courtship, it is “dating” arrested at the 13-year-old level. A woman has suitors; perhaps, preferred suitors; aContinue reading “No Boyfriends”

The Stay-At-Home-Daughters Movement

Traditional Courtship is not just “Dating” without sex. For one thing, the Feminist Life Script (get a college degree, get married around 28-30) doesn’t make much sense when you take the premarital sex out of it. That’s why people never did it that way, except for a few leftover spinsters. Apparently, there is a “StayContinue reading “The Stay-At-Home-Daughters Movement”