To be honest, I don't believe there is an Invisible Woman. I mean, I don't belive this is a true story. I don't believe there is a real woman out there who was unhappy, and then one day Saw The Light, and felt compelled to spend several hours writing this essay. The whole thing is a giant meta-parable, composed by someone for a purpose. You interpret the purpose as benign, whereas Rachel and I see something much more dangerous there.
See, what really gets up my nose is that this essay takes a very good idea--Motherhood is a hard and thankless job, but it doesn't have to be because husbands and family and society can help out and kids can be appreciative--and corrupts it so subtly!
There's nothing in the text about husbands and family and society helping.
There's a lot in the text that strongly implies that being a mother is supposed to make you unhappy. That somehow, if it's not, then you're not doing the job right.
I'm posting a whole entry going through this essay line by line, pointing out the fallacies and untruths (I don't call them "lies" because they may be ignorance, not willful). You may still not agree with my interpretation, but perhaps that will make it more clear what I'm reading in that text, and why I find it so invidious.
See, what really gets up my nose is that this essay takes a very good idea--Motherhood is a hard and thankless job, but it doesn't have to be because husbands and family and society can help out and kids can be appreciative--and corrupts it so subtly!
There's nothing in the text about husbands and family and society helping.
There's a lot in the text that strongly implies that being a mother is supposed to make you unhappy. That somehow, if it's not, then you're not doing the job right.
I'm posting a whole entry going through this essay line by line, pointing out the fallacies and untruths (I don't call them "lies" because they may be ignorance, not willful). You may still not agree with my interpretation, but perhaps that will make it more clear what I'm reading in that text, and why I find it so invidious.
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