Ok, it’s not like this essay isn’t good. It is. It’s funny and down to earth, and touches on important things like how to go camping with two kids all while being lazy, uninterested in “roughing it” and a single mom. Ok. Funny, and you got me at “mom.” But…I am so tired of product [...]

I was going to leave this comment on this thread here at feministe (where the totally rawking Plain’s Feminist is guest blogging!)–but I felt like it got too ranty and long and not connected to the actual point of the post, even though it was in a way. first comment for context: I was at [...]

i mean i dont do motherhood only when i know i can do it perfectly. i do it. fuck perfection. not only is perfection not attainable but if it was who would want to be around a perfect person? or perfect art? and i hell as dont want to be around a perfect mother.

via Elle PhD But they can’t see the damaging individualism inherent in their feminism. Of course, I don’t mean in choosing not to have children—familial and community obligations are commonly fulfilled by all of us, not just mothers. I mean the sentiment revealed in expressing aversion and revulsion towards women who do have children. As [...]