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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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 think the pervasive misogyny aimed at mothers is very underrated by people who are not mothers, and poorly understood and analyzed even by many who are. So many mothers turn on one another, or on their kids, or on other people they figure they can kick down at.
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There IS a culture around motherhood that valorizes self-sacrifice to an absurd degree and douses mothers in shame for taking literally any steps to make their own lives easier And I think "criticizing any choice I make is misogyny" is a convenient emotional reaction to that
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