The vast majority of my waking moments are spent feeling not in the least oppressed by "the man" or "the system".
But I do face concrete limitations I did not "earn" and therefore will find it slightly "oppressive" when the conservative mommysphere (whom I used to work with, as I said) cannot bring itself to be honest about what motherho…
The vast majority of my waking moments are spent feeling not in the least oppressed by "the man" or "the system".
But I do face concrete limitations I did not "earn" and therefore will find it slightly "oppressive" when the conservative mommysphere (whom I used to work with, as I said) cannot bring itself to be honest about what motherhood may be like, even for the "good girls".
I have no wish to take joy, health, and social support away from Mormon mothers who can garden without trouble (and I can't be sure Sherri had no trouble, just that you did not see it) immediately before and after giving birth.
I could not honestly convert to Mormonism myself, since it would require confession to things I cannot honestly believe, but I think there's much to be said for the Mormon support of family life. (It's not all rosy. There can be abuses. But, until our plans changed, my husband and I had planned to move to where the Mormons were to raise our family, and I was mostly looking forward to it.)
There's nothing wrong with admiring strong, healthy women who seem untroubled by childbearing. There is something wrong, logically and morally, with supposing all "sufficiently virtuous" women get to be those women.
The vast majority of my waking moments are spent feeling not in the least oppressed by "the man" or "the system".
But I do face concrete limitations I did not "earn" and therefore will find it slightly "oppressive" when the conservative mommysphere (whom I used to work with, as I said) cannot bring itself to be honest about what motherhood may be like, even for the "good girls".
I have no wish to take joy, health, and social support away from Mormon mothers who can garden without trouble (and I can't be sure Sherri had no trouble, just that you did not see it) immediately before and after giving birth.
I could not honestly convert to Mormonism myself, since it would require confession to things I cannot honestly believe, but I think there's much to be said for the Mormon support of family life. (It's not all rosy. There can be abuses. But, until our plans changed, my husband and I had planned to move to where the Mormons were to raise our family, and I was mostly looking forward to it.)
There's nothing wrong with admiring strong, healthy women who seem untroubled by childbearing. There is something wrong, logically and morally, with supposing all "sufficiently virtuous" women get to be those women.