"Bring home the bacon" = Going out and working to make a salary. "Bring home the bacon" refers to spending your salary on food for the household... It is similar to the term "breadwinner". As for the sentence you have given ['I can bring home the bacon mm mm mm mm fry it up in a pan mm mm mm mm.'], I think it's a little bit of a joke. It's talking about "literally" bringing home the bacon and cooking it up. At the same time, it's referring to making money and then coming home to "enjoy it" / "feel satisfied". It's the way for E to say: "Hey! I can make money too...". ---- 'And that, as such , they ' re naturally going to want what any human being faced with two IRREVOCABLY conflicting sets of responsibilities is going to want . Meaning that what they ' re really going to want is some way out of these responsibilities.' The sentence means that when someone has two responsibilities that conflict with one another [contradict each other], they often want to escape both. To give an example. A man is a policeman and also a father. A robbery happens at a store in town and the policeman is assigned with solving the case [finding out who did it]. He discovers that his son is actually the robber! Now he has two CONFLICTING SETS OF RESPONSIBILITIES: 1) A responsibility as a policeman to report the crime and resolve the case; 2) A responsibility as a father to protect his son. The two responsibilities are conflicting and the father is faced with a very difficult decision. At such times, most people would wish to have neither responsibility!! [That's what your sentence is saying.] With regard to the context of the text, it is suggesting that women find it difficult to have both household and work responsibilities, because these conflict with each other. --- I hope this helps! Good luck and take care!

E is actually referring to the "schizophrenic media discourse" (mixed messages in ads) just mentioned. The line is a quote from this popular 1980's jingle for Enjoli perfume. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4X4MwbVf5OA The advert itself is a bizarre mix of sexism and feminism: be a modern independent woman, but also be a perfect wife to your husband, and mother to your kids... (with the help of this perfume). Hughski's already given a great explanation of the phrase itself.

bring home the bacon and fry it up what i understand is woman today works and do the home responsibility bring the bacon = it is an expression used in America = to work fry it up = cook it thus, the paragraph discusses the condition of the 21 th century woman, she works and does all the other home responsibilities like cooking, cleaning, and taking care of the family at home, which is a double responsibility, i hope that helps