by Mike Gray

“Do you know what the favorite restaurant of the white working class is?” she asked. “Red Lobster.”
“Raise your hand if that is your favorite restaurant.” One hand went up. If you guessed that it belonged to this correspondent, you would be right.

“I think that most of us prefer Chez Panisse in Berkeley,” Williams said. “People can’t understand why we would pay a lot of money for little food.”—Prof. Joan C. Williams before the Center for American Progress.

At Accuracy in Academia, Malcolm Kline highlights the unconscious arrogance of today’s social engineers:

Unemployment may be at record levels but academics are doing their level best to diversify a dwindling work force. “Work-family conflict is really a conflict over masculinity,” Joan C. Williams of the University of California posited at the Center for American Progress on September 16, 2010.

The founding director of the Center for WorkLife Law at the UC-Hastings College of the Law bemoaned the “breadwinner ideal” that she claims Americans still cling to. We have “this habit of measuring masculinity by paycheck,” she claimed at CAP, and “measuring masculinity by hours worked.” …. She lamented that the current “political” situation would make her two recommended reforms difficult to achieve. Namely, she said: “We need new social subsidies” and “We need new worker’s rights.”

Professor Williams seems to be saying that if we abolish the odious patriarchal, nuclear family arrangement—turning all the fathers into “Mr. Moms,” and thus jump-starting a “gender revolution”—and dispense with the outmoded Puritan work ethic that built America, this economic mess we’re in will be turned around, provided we emplace “new social subsidies [and] worker’s rights.”