Just a couple:
1)As a child-free, happy woman, I can attest that women who are child-free and happy routinely arouse rage in others. The strength of that rage is telling. It has always been clear to me that those who denigrate my choices are doing it because, as Kidology says at the end, they very strongly doubt their own choices.
2)Glad she talks about the fetishization of motherhood (though in different words.) Motherhood is too often portrayed as a magical state that bestows supernatural powers as the child exits the womb. As fairy tales are a cultural PR effort to make girls want to marry, the fetishization of motherhood is a PR effort to make women want to bear children. The fact that this PR effort is needed is a clue to the truth: motherhood is astonishingly difficult, often unrewarding, and woe be to the mother (and her children) who doesn’t understand this before she decides to take on the role.
3)She nailed it on the effect of stuffing women back into the homes after WW2. On the women themselves and on the women in every generation that has followed.
4)I do wonder at her comment that older feminists are insisting that women should be married and have children. Admittedly I am not up on social media discussions among feminists, but is this the case?
5)I am so glad I don’t do social media other than DU. Every time I see social media clips here, I walk away thinking the world is almost totally comprised of assholes demanding that everyone be just like them.
6)The nodding woman behind Candace Owens with the Kaiser helmet. Seriously, WTF.
7)So glad you are back, redqueen!!!
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