The Hairpin was a web publication of essays, humor and cultural commentary, written mostly by and for women.
HN mostly links it for particular pieces, such as the Žižek essay and the odd stock-photo gag about women laughing alone with salad.
Like I said, I couldn't get through the essay because I fundamentally disagreed with it.
You say your memories of the 1950s are in agreement with it. I point out multiple examples from that era which show it isn't the case. I trust copies of literature from that era better than I do memories of childhood. I know how distorted my own memories of childhood were compared to the reality of the 1970s.
Here's another: http://calorielab.com/news/2005/08/25/family-dinners-school-lunches-and-fast-food-in-the-1950s/ - "Dinners consisted of meat, potatoes, a green vegetable, dinner rolls, salad. and dessert." Or look at the image of a Swanson's TV dinner from the 1950s , http://leitesculinaria.com/10348/writings-dining-through-the-decades-american-food-history.html , with potato and peas.
You say your mom wasn't shopping at a farmer's market. I never mentioned that - my reference was to 50 years previous. Fruit and vegetables are available at the supermarket. Here are pictures of a 1950s supermarket. http://fl4projects.tumblr.com/post/16150521363 . See the produce section? Same for http://www.pinterest.com/pin/27021666487620537/ .
You say that "food woo" is rampant now. I pointed out that C.S. Lewis against vegetarianism of the 1950s. Or I can point you to http://articles.latimes.com/1999/may/12/food/fo-36243 and how "From the 1930s through the '60s, Americans were convinced you had to have a certain kind of bowl to make a proper green salad: a plain, unvarnished wooden bowl which…
I've always assumed this was because America/Europe's culture has influenced everyone else's. Pretty much everyone watches and is heavy influenced by american TV. We know what ideas and images American media portray(think standard blonde barbie doll image). Then speeches like this have to happen - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPCkfARH2eE ...and articles like this must be written -
http://thehairpin.com/2014/09/white-beauty-myth
History of how black people tried bleaching our skin or straightening our hair. I still cringe that my wife wears weaves from time to time because I always remember the history of why black women do that; how it all started. I comfort myself by trying to think that they've taken & owned the weave in the same way black people have "taken" the N-word into their own identity... sorta....kinda...maybe...... it's complicated.
It can be bad, but if you're the type of person reading HN, it means you probably can afford Valtrex if you have a really bad outbreak. You may never have a bad outbreak. You may have one and it will clear up in a day.
The hardest part of any STI for someone with access to health care is the fear and the disclosure, but here's one of the best written articles on the subject to say why disclosure isn't so bad: http://thehairpin.com/2012/04/the-perks-of-herpes/
>Speak for yourself haha. This is a matter of trajectory. As you get older, you'll follow the trajectory you maintain. I exercise creativity more than fitness and I feel incredible hahahaha.
https://www.thehairpin.com/2017/07/men-you-dont-have-to-write-haha-at-the-end-of-statements/
Kind of, "women laughing at salad" is a very odd (possibly unintentional) category of stock photography. https://www.thehairpin.com/2011/01/women-laughing-alone-with-salad/
So when he mentioned women sipping champagne and laughing, it brought the image to my mind.
> Zizek explained
Who? (1)
https://www.thehairpin.com/2016/07/the-best-time-i-pretended-i-hadnt-heard-of-slavoj-zizek/