The description of the article in the table of contents continues in its attempt to hit reader hot buttons:
Hipster parents are clogging cafes with their king-size strollers and inflicting their unruly toddlers on the childless masses. Is grown-up space a thing of the past? A not entirely impartial report on the battle for downtown.
Despite all the button-pushing on the cover and in the table of contents, as of this writing, Google only reveals two mentions of the article: here and here.
I just picked up the magazine, as I hear some friends of mine are one of the featured families in the article (good photo, painful quote). I’ll read it when I get home tonight and comment afterwards.
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The cover painting says it all.
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Honestly, I'd say that this might just be a case of profound blogger disinterest in Toronto Life.
I am not sure what would have to be on the cover to motivate me even reading a discarded copy on the can, much letter purchasing it. It would likely involve Christina Ricci, though.
@Pete Forde: I'd call it "blogger disinterest" if and only if the definition of "blogger" included "in one's twenties, and of the firm belief that home ownership, child-rearing and not relying on tips for income are for old people".
I am curious to hear what they actually say once you get a chance to read it Joey.
I would probably pick it up and read it. I suspect the writer is self-righteous and annoying, but I also suspect I would agree with many of the points.
Without me dusting off this particular soapbox, lets just say that the average person's occasionally impolite and self-centered behaviors achieve whole new levels of obnoxiousness when accompanied by their squalling progeny.
But I have no paternal drive I have ever noticed so I am not exactly unbiased either. :)
Hey Joey - thanks for linking my blog!! And I must say that I have no idea why I keep buying Toronto Life. Sigh.
Cheers,
Kristina
@Jason: I just finished reading it, and your prediction -- "I suspect the writer is self-righteous and annoying, but I also suspect I would agree with many of the points" -- is quite close. My compliments on your deductive skills!
My comments shall appear in a posting on this blog in the next couple of days.
[Correction, April 15th] I somehow read "writer" as "subjects" -- see this comment for details.
@Kristina: My pleasure!
As for Toronto Life, even if you don't agree with their editorial direction, there's always their recurring "Where to get stuff cheap" articles and the restaurant reviews...
Well, now I want some illegal cheese.
I didn't find her that self-righteous or annoying. I thought she took the middle road between annoying hipster parents and annoying hipster singles. And annoying activists of both dog and child stripes. The seriously clueless people were the interviewees, not the writer.
@Chris Taylor: You are correct -- in reading Jason's comment, I read "writer" as "subjects" for some reason. Probably all the eye-rolling I was doing while reading the article.
Ah, well I sit corrected. I know that many people I have heard on the subject come off that way. Kudos for the writer.
The subject is one that usually descends into self righteous ranting very rapidly. On both sides of the debate. :)
Being someone who is actually in the middle, despite being voluntarily childless, I usually agree a bit with both sides in principle and yet end up rolling my eyes at everyone.