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Juat catching up
here... LOL It is difficult to take such a thing seriously. You don't have to be white, live in a trailer house and have your kids in jail to max out, I am sure! Why, this discounts races of people and gender and every kind of category there is! Not fair! LOL
posted by
KaBooM62
on September 29, 2008 at 9:30 PM
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Really interesting post. It is difficult to see what they mean by that category. On another note: thanks for your good advice, but, believe it or not, in the village turning town where I here live in Turkey, there is not a single dry cleaner!!! See my problem?
posted by
vogue
on September 27, 2008 at 8:18 AM
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I can not believe they are getting away with that grouping, and I am even more shocked they are for McCain! Where would I fit in one of those statistic tables? I don't know what I am... My parents and grandparents come from all over but since my grand dad was American I am holding on to that :-) I guess I would be of Hispanic - American -European descent. Oh and I went to college too so ...they would have to make a whole new column for me loll
posted by
Sinome
on September 27, 2008 at 8:09 AM
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Time...I haven't read that in years.
Not since the sub I got free in college expired.
A rose
or two
and
Woof! from the wonder dog
and from me too!
posted by
Whacky
on September 26, 2008 at 8:50 PM
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I must say that
Time is inane with this category. I don't read that mag either. I don't even have the interest to pick it up! Great article. For the record, I don't live in a trailer and I have a degree and the kids aren't in jail, yet! lol Shelly
posted by
sam444
on September 26, 2008 at 4:27 PM
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Good points made all round
posted by
malcolm
on September 26, 2008 at 1:06 PM
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How about a category for those women labeled Real Housewives
--of Orange County, New York, Atlanta... wherever... Whatever... Geeze, I've lost interest already...
posted by
Ciel
on September 26, 2008 at 8:41 AM
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Nautikos
I'd say more likely they are thinking white, conservative, religious, stay-at-home, empty nesters, who they visualize as empty-headed beyond the latest recipes and grandchildren's birthdays, in some stage of menopause, did nothing with their lives "but" raise children and keep a home, and now do nothing but live stagnant lives in suburbia and small towns across America, wondering how their lives went wrong, wishing they had done more, feeling frumpy......it's the same thinking that doesn't understand Sarah Palin because it doesn't fit the idea of womanhood "they" want to promote. But.......you may be right......you usually are.
posted by
Krisles
on September 26, 2008 at 7:58 AM
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Very interesting, Naut. I'm not in the academic world, but I have a MA in Statistics, and know that you can make a case for just about anything (manipulating questions and data - or in so many sorry cases, fudging data). So this "Maxed Out Moms" category is quite baffling. Are they "Maxed Out" on credit-cards? Kids? Patience? Work? What the hell does it mean? I take most of these surveys with a grain of salt and I find myself a "Maxed Out Mom" who's maxed-out on all this campaign nonsense.
posted by
gapcohen
on September 26, 2008 at 7:55 AM
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Naut
Maybe it’s a category created so as to tell these women how they should be voting. “Oh, I’m a Maxed-out-mom therefore I should be voting for McCain”. But then again, who in that category would be picking up a Time for an evening read….
posted by
Troosha
on September 26, 2008 at 7:46 AM
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