Posted on 10/06/2016 11:44:08 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Yesterday, Republican nominee for POTUS Donald Trump released a campaign video about his plan for paid maternity leave. In it, his daughter Ivanka, who has become Donalds stand-in for women, explains the plan for him. Unsurprisingly, the very first thing out of her mouth is kind of a problem: The most important job any woman can have is being a mother.
Using any woman here is just a nicer way of saying all women. What that sentence really means is that Ivanka and by extension, her father, whose platform the video was created to advertise thinks that all women should have children, because its the most important job for them. Of course, this line of thinking isnt exactly reflective of American womens lived experience: More women today are either putting off having children or choosing to not have them at all. Saying that womens most important job in life is motherhood suggests that women without children are lacking not just children, but a true calling in life.
By declaring motherhood the most important job, were also forcing women to organize priceless parts of their lives by value. First Lady Michelle Obama has famously said that raising her daughters is her proudest achievement during her time in the White House, and that makes sense: Creating two people out of thin air isnt easy, and its right to feel extremely proud when you dont, as she said, mess up your kids.
But the reality is that we rarely ask men to rank their jobs in life: Is being a father more important to Keith Richards than being in the Rolling Stones? I have no idea; I didnt even know he had children until three months ago. The question itself is an impossible test for women who have children: Which do you value more, your kids or your job? The trick is that theres no right answer, so no matter what your response is youre wrong.
Of course, being a mother can definitely feel like a job sometimes. It is, in base terms, labor. There is extra laundry and cooking and cleaning up. The hours are longer than anything even my forefathers saw in the mines. But many of the people who tout motherhood as their most important job arent single mothers juggling a kid and an actual paying gig: Theyre not people who worry about the cost of day care or health insurance. In short, theyre people like Ivanka Trump.
Still, if Ivanka wants to say that motherhood is a job, Im happy to agree with her. Because if it is, then I assume Trumps maternity plan comes with the bare minimum of benefits for its workforce: universal pre-K, affordable and high-quality child care, and health insurance. Throw in a salary and a retirement plan and Ill change my business cards to Mother right away.
I write “Banning”! ;P
Oops, I meant “Bannon”!
LOL
Seppuku: Why don't you try it?
Seppuku: Why don't you try it?
> “Stop Telling Women Motherhood Is the Most Important Job”
Why?
Because it gets in the way?
It is certainly hands down the truth that for young children, the mother is the most important being in life. And later it is the father.
I would say it’s a tie between motherhood and fatherhood for most important job in the world.
This sounds like most unhappy lady-—Quote” But many of the people who tout motherhood as their most important job arent single mothers juggling a kid and an actual paying gig”
My late mother raised us alone-—in the 1930s and 40s-——and worked full time.
She considered being a mother her most important job.
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This is from a woman who’s had at least one abortion. The bitter, angry, career-woman. I’ll bet she’s been F’ed and Chucked more times than she can count.
the article is just what we expect from a spotted hyena
Laura June doesn’t get it. It doesn’t mean every woman has to be a mother. It means that if she is a mother, it’s more important than any other job she might have. Big difference.
How did we ever get away from the truth that the primary caregiver’s behavior largely determines whether someone is mentally ill or relatively healthy? It’s chemistry, it’s hereditary, it’s this it’s that. Just to get mothers off the hook? Just to get women off the hook, since most primary caregivers are women? To get women in the work force as cheap labor? Just to discredit Sigmund Freud? Whatever, it’s wrong.
And they were all horrible people. Most of them stayed horrible. Horrible young bitches became horrible old harridans.
Now that’s someone who never has to worry about an unplanned pregnancy.
Yeah, the future of the species is boring, old fashioned stuff, not for the modern woman.
AACCCKKKK
Rush is absolutely right, the purpose of Feminism is to give ugly women easier access to the mainstream of society.
They keep telling us the most important thing a man can be is a wallet to a woman.
Trump is right again.
And we are in negative birth rate here in the US or fast approaching....
Choir sing, sing, sing!
Specific to God’s will a woman’s most important job is mother hood.
Feminists go ^*&%#*(&^%^^!!
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