Posted on 02/18/2016 9:14:16 PM PST by kathsua
Sometime in the not too distant past, the feminist movement began backtracking from its mission to empower women and started dictating what women canât do.
Pro-abortion feminists say women canât be successful without abortion. Single moms canât parent children and achieve their career goals. Mothers canât focus too much on their childrenâs lives.
Mollie Hemingway, senior editor at The Federalist, pointed out a recent example of this after Vogue published a cover story about Adele. Some pro-abortion feminists began criticizing the international singing sensation because she told the magazine that she had found new purpose in life through motherhood.
Adele said her son âmakes me very proud of myself. When I became a parent, I felt like I was truly living. I had a purpose, where before I didnât.â And later, âMy main thing is Mum, then itâs me, then itâs work.â
Putting motherhood first, above her career and herself, worried one writer at Slate.
Pro-abortion journalist Elissa Strauss responded with concern that Adele believes her son contributes more to her life than her famous career:
This is a bold, potentially controversial, statement for a celebrity mom. Adele, ADELE, didnât feel like she was truly living before she became a mom?! She, the universally adored force of nature behind, at the time, one of the bestselling albums of all time, felt like she didnât have a purpose?
This type of sentiment has backfired for female celebrities before. When Natalie Portman dared to suggest that motherhood might be ââthe most important role of [her] lifeâ in her 2011 Oscar acceptance speech, she received a lot of pushback. âIs reproduction automatically the greatest thing Natalie Portman will do with her life?â asked Salonâs Mary Elizabeth Williams at the time. Thereâs been similar resistance to calling motherhood âthe most important job in the world.â
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Fortunately, Strauss concluded by saying that Adeleâs statements about motherhood werenât really that bad. But her ending was almost a warning to the star, and any other women who speak too strongly of motherhood: âHow lovely it is, then, to see someone like Adele appear so utterly unconflicted about the joys of becoming a parent, to be so high on motherhood without fearing that she might lose herself in it.â
Hemingway pointed out the problems with feminists questioning Adeleâs statements:
But whatâs the problem with what she said? And how out of touch are feminists to wrestle with this? Weâre constantly told that feminism doesnât hate motherhood or bristle against children, but it has the most unconvincing ways of demonstrating that.
⦠Strauss decides sheâs OK with Adele finding purpose in motherhood because sheâs not âselling us on an idealized version of motherhood,â just that âmotherhood can be a singularly powerful experience in a womanâs life, even as that woman continues to pursue achievements outside of motherhood.â Phew, that was close. So long as she continues stuff outside of motherhood, sheâs cool.
But woe to those women who donât pursue achievements outside of motherhood. We will still look down on them.
[* except be a sperm donor.]
O M G !!! Not THAT!!!!
The ability to have a baby is indeed a wonderful thing!!!
Why some women seem to consider it a curse is mind boggling to me!
“This is a bold, potentially controversial, statement for a celebrity mom. Adele, ADELE, didn’t feel like she was truly living before she became a mom?! She, the universally adored force of nature behind, at the time, one of the bestselling albums of all time, felt like she didn’t have a purpose?”
The decades come and go, but militant feminists remain the same. A successful female finds more satisfaction in being a mother than in dollars and the fawning of strangers and industry sycophants, and they lose their minds.
I agree, raising 4 children was the best job I ever had, lots of fun, many heartaches, many teaching moments as well as paying me great dividends.
Who was the lucky guy?
They can all pile on her as far as I’m concerned. I saw an article where Adele took her 5 year old son to an amusement park and let him dress up in a princess costume. She is nuts and deserves any grief she gets from her fellow nut cases.
Four babies! Wonderful :-)
Many women today hold in low-esteem a life dedicated to raising a large family.... they are sick people :-(
Yes, let’s attack the evil of raising children. Only a gay communist could think like this.
Vipers.
Reminds me, obliquely, of Betrand Russell’s comment, “As the rising sun scatters the multitude of stars, so Galileo’s few proved truths banished the scintillating firmament of mediaeval certainties.”
Yes, and so it is with a child, ... or a grandchild!
That is a very good thought on the matter.
I have had childless female co-workers tell me how their pets are just like children to them and love them unconditionally.
However, one of them finally had a child and called me aside one day. Her child had thrown their arms around them and said “I Love You”. They knew then what I had been talking about, and how their life was forever changed and made worthwhile by that baby.
These feminists are so full of hate. They hate life — born and unborn.
I work with some of them as well (white, childless middle-aged women); when someone proposed resurrecting the company picnic for the employees’ families, one of them snarled, “Only if we can bring our dogs”.
A lot of regrets in some of them, and real bitterness towards younger women avoiding the same path (especially minorities).
My wife says the same, and as a guy I agree; having children was the most significant thing in either of our lives.
Really want to hear a snarl? Say something derogatory about abortion. That will get the old guilt trip running on full octane.
Same here.
And they age and watch the complexion of this country rapidly change before their eyes (literally), many older whites are re-thinking their support for abortion - not that they would admit it. It didn’t work out as they dreamed (the eradication of non-white populations), but instead has done the reverse; they visibly grimace when hearing people speak Spanish all around them.
I had the same arguments with several coworkers when I had my first. I had a picture of my first dressed up for Halloween, and get shown others’ pictures of dressed up dogs.
And I had several professional women tell me I was too young to have kids at 25, should have put more into my career. The fact that I’d been married several years and already had a house was irrelevant - their model was party another five to ten years, then hope the eggs hadn’t gone bad.
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