Wife: "Feminists tell women to ignore their own needs and call this "freedom"."
Me: "Third-wave capitanism sure is developing fast..."
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Human-as-labor-output-device is worse for women in multiple senses, particularly w/parenting. A man can leave that job; a woman not so much.
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Judging women by career & income, giving them "rights" (read: obligations) for work and disparaging motherhood, *is* a system of oppression.
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If we are to be equals in opportunity, women need better rights than men to accomodate greater biological burden (pregnancy risk).
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That means not only reproductive rights, but protection for moms (single or otherwise) and career *options* for those who want them.
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Creating an artificial divide between working women, mothers and other salient categories of women, who are in fact all women, is dangerous.
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