Anti-Feminist Births First Baby In The World
Gah! When will Katie Roiphe grow up and stop working out her problems with her mom by taking wild shots at feminism? She has a baby now; surely she's old enough to mature a little. OTOH, whining about feminism is how she pays her rent. So I left a comment which I wish I could repost in my mundane blog, but I used my Ankh identity so darn, all I
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I've been absent from LJ and have missed you.
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Hey I don't think I'm friends w/ you on Facebook. I'm Liz McK there.
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This whole thing just boils with bullshit and bad rhetoric and I think it made my brain explode.
You're right. She acts like everyone who's every told me, "Oh once you have your own, you'll change your mind!" Um, no. I won't. Cuz I'm not having any. Sorry.
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They should have.
Cuz I meant it, and I'm not sorry.
But I have worked like a dog all my political life to try to get a culture which pretends to esteem motherhood, mothers, children, and childhood to actually support those concepts and constituencies.
Not much luck so far, if you don't count
-- the Pregnancy Discrimination Act
-- bans on marital status discrimination (which were originally enforced against married women; I think you're too young to have lived through that ( ... )
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No, I'm not old enough to remember discrimination against married women with kids, but in one my earliest job interviews I was asked first if I had any, and then if I was planning on having any and I recall thinking, "They don't really need to know that."
I've seen a lot of what you list in action or inaction at work. Especially the child support thing. Some ladies depend on that payment each month to make the rent, and when he doesn't pony up like he's supposed to I wind up arguing with my boss to not file an eviction notice on her. *sighs*
I just think, and oddly some people find my opinion here strange, that if you don't want children then don't have them. And if you do, have them, but take care of them. If a woman wants a child, then she ought to be able to do for herself, and get the support she needs to do stuff like go to work, etc. I'm just not in favor of the particular type of people who have kids on top of kids and then don't care for them. Just because you can, ( ... )
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It continues to ASTONISH me how little kids today know of their history, of the struggles their parents and grandparents went through to get them where they are (whiny). They can google anything -- except what it was like to be queer, or disabled, or female, or not white in 1960, 1970, etc. Either they don't believe it was as bad as it was, or they do and thus think themselves morally superior to everyone older (less enlightened) than them or -- ::sputters, grumbles, waves cane in a crotchety manner::
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Babies aren't so for long and her choice of words speaks volumes about how ill prepared she is for that person to have its own identity, separate from her.
It does and it will and why can't some parents get it through their thick heads that their sole purpose as a parent is to raise a child to be a functional autonomous person, able one day to be completely INDEPENDENT of them?
Parents your role is vital, but temporary. Foolish therefore the individuals who define themselves by that role.
She'll come unstuck. Oh and Silvia Plath had children too and look what happened to her.
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