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History of Feminism

SunSeeker

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4. This imbalance became horrifically obvious to me after I had a baby.

Reply to YoungDemCA (Original post)

Sun Jan 24, 2016, 02:15 PM

Jan 2016

And my husband insists he's a feminist. Both my husband and I work full time in demanding professional jobs. But I have an additional full time job---and he doesn't. It's not like he insists I do this work, but if I didn't do it, it wouldn't get done. That includes all the little niceties of life, from organizing birthday parties, to sending out Christmas cards, to keeping my son's goldfish alive.

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