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To: Marie2
A champion of women's rights, she has always argued that motherhood is a form of servitude.

Well of course it is. So is fatherhood, husbandhood and wifehood. In fact, so is being a friend, a co-worker an employee and practically every other human relationship.

We should serve everyone we have a relationship with in a manner appropriate to the relationship. And that service should be joyful (although that is an ideal I often do not achieve). You can't just take from relationships or not have them. God didn't make us that way. You end up an ugly feminist or misogynist or whatever if you don't have a clue about this.

5 posted on 05/29/2008 1:43:27 AM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: ModelBreaker

...”Well of course it is. So is fatherhood, husbandhood and wifehood. In fact, so is being a friend, a co-worker an employee and practically every other human relationship”...

Great point! I applaud Rebecca Walker for letting us have this insight into the realities of her life as the daughter of Alice Walker. Though my Mother was not a feminist, I did experience some of the other behaviors Rebecca suffered with Alice and the hurt never completely goes away. However, Rebecca’s normal maternal instinct and joy will heal her heart over time. She evidently does have a loving family on her Father’s side and that is a wonderful thing. God bless her. I pray that she will have that second child and will remember that we build our families two ways..through biology or adoption.


6 posted on 05/29/2008 2:50:07 AM PDT by jazzlite (esat)
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