If someone genuinely feels under too much pressure from feminism to have children and stay home with them, she should seek help. It is not normal to be this strongly influenced by a small section of a society which otherwise overwhelmingly supports women's right to choose.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
I think this feeling comes from the general thrust of feminism - be a ceo, earn more, work in tech etc. Essentially (and ironically) 'be more like a man'. There v little talk of motherhood apart from how it holds women down. 1/
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Replying to @lenlsw @HPluckrose
I'd love to hear more about how cool it is that we can grow human beings inside our own bodies and then sustain them with our bodies once they arrive. It's bloody amazing and obviously sets us apart from men but I think in a good way, unlike some feminists. 2/
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Replying to @lenlsw @HPluckrose
Instead it's kind of disparaged as if being a mother is wanting to be some throwback 50s housewife. In the arguments about the wage gap, it's generally unspoken but implicit that women would all jump straight back into full time work of only they didn't have to deal with kids 3/
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Yes, some people will do this, but there are plenty of people who love to see pregnant women. People kept touching my belly. Complete strangers. We can deal with feminists thinking politically about it. Their blank-slatism is a problem in itself.
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