Naomi, in response to a question on why women trouble themselves with debate on divisive parenting issues:
[…] keeping women occupied with relatively trivial parenting matters which our ancestors didn’t think twice about means we don’t have time or energy to recognise our true status as women alienated from the real world, frustrated in our efforts to succeed at work, excluded from politics or other influential activities, raising the next generation of toilet cleaners and bankers whilst being told we need hv advice and surestart to stop us messing up and not a lot of thanks for it, dissatisfied in our unequal relationships, often suffering from things which society considers taboo in conversation eg miscarriage, menopause, pain or complications from childbirth…we could be quite a grumpy and dangerous group of people if we weren’t so easily distracted by parentings mags and pretty slings
19 Oct at 7:39 pm
That’ll be why I’m so grumpy and dangerous – couldn’t give a toss about parenting magazines and never got on with slings!
19 Oct at 7:53 pm
That’s why I’m grumpy – I never bought parenting mags and didn’t own a real sling. Well, other than that my only excuse would be that I have to live with your siblings :) Or maybe it’s because I’m just a grumpy old granny
19 Oct at 8:15 pm
Durrr… As a 19 year old student, is it too much for me to ask of my future husband to help me parent so that I can work (on cool stuff! Like building robots!) as well? Since there are more working women now, I think and hope that this is slowly changing. Thank God!
19 Oct at 9:40 pm
My boyfriend already told me he’d be fine staying home with the little ones if we could afford it. We both agree one of us is better than a day care. The real issue is a single bread winner can’t support a family too well anymore on average.
19 Oct at 10:11 pm
Awesome! Sure you can work, but you’ll feel guilty. Or you can stay at home, and feel guilty.
20 Oct at 3:51 pm
Ah… so then I won’t be grumpy when I’ll be a mom. See I’m easily distracted by anything shiny… actually, it doesn’t even have to be shiny. :P
24 Oct at 6:43 pm
That’s lovely – and really explains the corporate connection. Now if only we could figure out why women attack each other so much over parenting choices we’ll be set.
Seriously, though, that’s an excellent quote – it might have to go on my inspiration board – when I get around to making one.