tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4051826042602269061.post6630160803629250603..comments2024-03-25T09:01:20.997-07:00Comments on Diary of an Autodidact: The Way We Never Were by Stephanie CoontzDiary of an Autodidacthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11849157548643091986noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4051826042602269061.post-1460286709595422912017-04-03T12:44:33.511-07:002017-04-03T12:44:33.511-07:00From my reading of history, in the 20s, men were a...From my reading of history, in the 20s, men were able to support a family on their income alone, and, in most cases, the wife didnt need to work. See MIDDLETOWN (1925) and MIDDLETOWN IN TRANSITION (1937).<br />Im curious about the working-class largely minority area where you grew up. I think it was in S California. Although my family is Chinese, we lived in a similar area, southeast LA 1956-68. My email is yorkmanlowe@gmail.com Yorkman Lowehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01043645724078353187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4051826042602269061.post-17897427681383257832017-03-20T10:55:21.014-07:002017-03-20T10:55:21.014-07:00I haven't read it, but I have seen Rachel Held...I haven't read it, but I have seen Rachel Held Evans' brilliant takedown of it. I am certainly stealing her "White Evangelical Persecution Industrial Complex" as a good term to describe the phenomenon. <br /><br />I don't know how much of my blog you have read, but I spent some time in the "withdraw from culture" wing of Christianity - a cult, really. My wife was in an even more fringe group during her teens. So I suspect Dreher's book would be a bit PTSD inducing. Just as one comment on that, my view from the inside is that there is a strong visceral dislike for certain groups that drives the separatist movement emotionally. Obviously, the paranoia about LGBTQ people. But also a sense that we must keep away from the icky poor and brown skinned people and their horrible culture. Diary of an Autodidacthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11849157548643091986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4051826042602269061.post-88285305450360738692017-03-19T11:00:29.694-07:002017-03-19T11:00:29.694-07:00Reading this review, I wondered about what you wou...Reading this review, I wondered about what you would say about the new "Benedict Option" book from Rod Dreher. He is, of course, steeped in the paranoid style of American Christianity, peddles this narrative of decline, and has a massive persecution complex. Mr. G. Z. T.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09921024148049682188noreply@blogger.com