{"id":426638,"date":"2010-03-14T06:07:07","date_gmt":"2010-03-14T10:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=2182"},"modified":"2010-03-14T06:07:07","modified_gmt":"2010-03-14T10:07:07","slug":"vore-extended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/426638","title":{"rendered":"-vore extended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A carnivore eats meat; an herbivore eats grass; an insectivore eats insects; an omnivore eats everything; a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?source=ig&amp;hl=en&amp;rlz=&amp;=&amp;q=site%3Aitre.cis.upenn.edu%2F~myl%2Flanguagelog+locavore&amp;aq=f&amp;aqi=&amp;oq=\">locavore<\/a> eats locally-produced food. But the latest <em>-vore<\/em> coinage, <em>femivore<\/em>, doesn&#8217;t refer to someone who eats feminists, but rather to, well, something different.<span id=\"more-2182\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Peggy Orenstein, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/14\/magazine\/14fob-wwln-t.html\">The Femivore&#8217;s Dilemma<\/a>&#8220;, NYT 3\/11\/2010:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Four women I know \u2014 none of whom know one another \u2014 are building chicken coops in their backyards. It goes without saying that they already raise organic produce: my town, Berkeley, Calif., is the Vatican of locavorism, the high church of Alice Waters. Kitchen gardens are as much a given here as indoor plumbing. But chickens? That ups the ante. Apparently it is no longer enough to know the name of the farm your eggs came from; now you need to know the name of the actual bird.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">All of these gals \u2014 these chicks with chicks \u2014 are stay-at-home moms, highly educated women who left the work force to care for kith and kin. I don\u2019t think that\u2019s a coincidence: the omnivore\u2019s dilemma has provided an unexpected out from the feminist predicament, a way for women to embrace homemaking without becoming Betty Draper. \u201cPrior to this, I felt like my choices were either to break the glass ceiling or to accept the gilded cage,\u201d says Shannon Hayes, a grass-fed-livestock farmer in upstate New York and author of \u201cRadical Homemakers,\u201d a manifesto for \u201ctomato-canning feminists,\u201d which was published last month.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[Update &#8212; more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/news\/women_now_empowered_by_everything\">here<\/a> (on the cultural rather than morphological aspects).]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A carnivore eats meat; an herbivore eats grass; an insectivore eats insects; an omnivore eats everything; a locavore eats locally-produced food. But the latest -vore coinage, femivore, doesn&#8217;t refer to someone who eats feminists, but rather to, well, something different. Peggy Orenstein, &#8220;The Femivore&#8217;s Dilemma&#8220;, NYT 3\/11\/2010: Four women I know \u2014 none of whom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}