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Once read a critical review of a book about stay-at-home parenting; the writer said that leaving her baby for work "felt like a second cutting of the umbilical cord, this time with nerve endings," but that she had to fight her "base, biological inclinations" for the greater good.pic.twitter.com/fKK1K3SPFg
My feed is often full of tweets both supportive of and skeptical of modern feminism. I have mixed feelings, but I *do* think that any sort of tenable feminism cannot foster an environment where women feel obligated to leave their babies in the name of "social progress"
Comparing the desire to stay with one's own infant with the desire to binge on candy is so dystopian I don't even really know how to grok it
I sometimes feel like writing an article or recording a video titled "It's actually okay to love your own kid, like, a lot," but the idea that such a thing is even useful is so depressing that I can't bring myself to do it
FWIW: this is *not* an attempt to deride families who need two incomes, or single parents who have no choice but to work, or parents struggling with postpartum depression or a difficulty developing an attached relationship to their child
Just absolutely grimacing my way through this paragraph. Can she even hear what she sounds like? "You must now leave your tiny child to be cared for by others. Ignore the panic you feel, it is a brutish remnant. Return to your work station. For the Community. For Science."
I mean. I dunno. People often feel this way, not just about parenting but about lots of things...work through illness, train through tiredness, sleep is unnecessary....
I was talking to my sister about this the other day. She'll baby sit periodically to cover bills as she works her way through PA school and had a crisis about her plans to work full time after dealing with some particularly asshole-y kids whose parents both work.
Wack
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