Mother: The REALLY Liberated Woman
By Laurette Lynn on Oct 20, 2012 with Comments 6
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Listen in on this special Mothers Day edition of UMRadio. During this episode Laurette Lynn ponders and discusses feminism and Motherhood with Desiree Alonso, and both remark on the ways in which the feminist movement has alter
ed the perception of Motherhood.
Is Mothering enslaving? Does it imprison an otherwise free woman? Is the idea that it might a purposefully fabricated notion set into motion to enlarge the workforce and perpetuate schooling? Can a woman truly find personal fulfillment in fostering a relationship with her children?
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If you have to stay home and be dependent on someone else to support you and all the childcare falls on you, you are being enslaved.
You don’t have to be a slave to be a parent. But the “traditional family” you advocate is all about the woman being a slave.
Why don’t you, you laurette, expect the male parent to do anything? Why don’t you need your dad?
You should talk about parenting. There is no mothering, there is no fathering; there is parenting. Stop being sexist.
Your rhetoric is ignorant and not supported by fact. In fact, women are not “slaves” in the family, in fact women are the most violent. 51% of domestic violence victims are MEN and their perpetrators women. Mothers also commit the most child abuse and child murder. It has always the man who has been the slave- being forced to work, “bring home the bacon” and provide for his family. Men are thrown out of their homes, taken away from their children. It is children and men who are the slaves of women.
If that’s the case, then why doesn’t laurette ever talk about how men need to get free and stop being enslaved to their jobs?
Also, that’s not how it is in my experience. People usually use the fact that men have jobs as the excuse for men to be in charge of the household, the same way parents say to their children that they make the money so they make the rules.
It’s even crazier in my family. My dad sits on his butt and plays computer games all day while my mom has a job and does all the shopping and makes supper every night and does always what my dad demands because he is insane and believes that just the fact that he has a penis means he is in charge, and the fact that he is physically stronger makes my mom afraid to tell him to shove it because maybe he’ll just beat the crap out of her.
IME that’s how it is in most families: The man acts all nice and happy as long as everyone does what he says, but there is a threat there always.
Now I know, from hearing the rants of men, that they do in fact feel enslaved to the entirety of women. They feel like they must get a job so that they can get a wife. Well, you know what, they should stop making that choice. They should not do things that make them unhappy just to get a wife.
Same for women. They should not do things that make them unhappy just to get a husband. Or whatever your sexuality is.
You can argue that men and women both are indoctrinated to follow these rigid roles, both enslaved not to each other but to the culture. But those rigid roles put men on top, and women as subservient. So to me it makes sense that women would lash out violently if they can. Like how little kids who hate school take it out on their classmates.
Men may be forced to work, but women are just in recent times even being ALLOWED to work. Because having your own income makes you independent, and the men have been indoctrinated to believe that a woman must be dependent on them.
The thing about men being kicked out of the house and being denied access to their children when the couple splits up is a new thing. It used to be that the children would stay with the father. That is now goes the other way is a terrible stupid side-effect of misguided feminism. I DO NOT SUPPORT THIS. But this one new thing that goes against men does not disprove the superiority men have been given for hundreds of years and still have 99% of today.
Laurie, it seems to me that you have disregarded my statements that are in favor of equality. I don’t want anyone to be a slave to anyone else. You should not enter a marriage unless your spouse will regard you as an equal. If the two of you decide that one will stay home and one will go out and have a job, that should not mean that either one becomes dominant over the other.
I disagree. Thank you for your comment.
Laurette and Desiree,
I just love your cut-through the bull brilliance! I 100% agree! Motherhood should be celebrated! By society’s standards, I am a “successful” woman with a Master’s in Counseling Psychology and an author, etc., etc. However, nothing matters to me more than being a mother to my son- Family, parenting- to me, there is nothing more important about being human. Women should not have children if they do not want to be with them, if they do not wish to put them first, if they care more about their selfish politics than the well being of their children. It is not sexist to ask mothers to mother. It is anti-child and a form of child abuse for feminist culture to expect children to grow up without mothers who cherish and put them and their needs first. Enslavement? Have feminists forgotten that we are mammals, that every other female mammal on the planet mothers? The real slavery is feminism and their anti-male, anti-mothering, anti-child, pro-materialism rhetoric. Thank you for exposing these ignorant statements.
Equality is not slavery. Equality is the exact opposite of slavery.