I feel like it's like this core part of these people's identity that everyone has a duty to have children for the sake of society, they're Christlike heroes for taking this burden upon themselves, and those of us who are shirking this duty are freeloading off of themhttps://twitter.com/OwenJones84/status/1260639247859580930 …
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Somehow this is the direction middle-class maternal angst evolved toward This anguished cry of "How can you call me privileged? My life SUCKS, and I DESERVE to be able to mock trans women/underpay my immigrant cleaning lady/abuse my kid when frustrated"
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It's not my place to psychoanalyze this shit but it's just so transparently deeply fucked up Like they really believe "feminism is what I, or someone who reminds me of me, wants to do, and misogyny is giving me a hard time over doing it"
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And it's not even like I don't, in the broad sense, think they have a point Yeah, all of society does depend on the idea of people having kids, and we just assume that it's gonna happen naturally and don't give people much support for it
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But reacting to it by rapidly going full trad is so messed up and self-destructive Like they're out there saying any attack on the idea of the profession of a cleaner or a maid is an attack on women because if it stops being paid work *only women will do it*, as a *rule*
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I have never been on Mumsnet specifically but one thing I'd observe is that mother's groups and media aimed at mothers often go HARD on the sacredness of the AFAB body and how important it is that it work the "right" way and I think that plays into the TERFery
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