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some of y& #39;all talk about children like you talk about men: as time and energy burglars who take and consume your me-me-me time and all your money and offer nothing in return. it& #39;s very weird.
this is why i push back on that "women have no structural power" nonsense. y& #39;all are narcissistic as hell. children have no structural power, youth poverty is steadily rising, & every day y& #39;all campaign for an end to their "burdensome" existence imposing on your adult "freedoms."
instead of putting your energy towards societal change (including dismantling) y& #39;all focus your energy on being anti-poor and anti-child, much of which is rooted in ableism. it& #39;s easier to attack people who have less power than to rail against the system that caused this.
in chasing "equality," i.e. being equal with men, y& #39;all have venerated a way of life you claim to be wholly against-- men& #39;s way. in doing so you have decentered those most vulnerable while positioning yourselves as eternal victims. hiring help and focusing on "self-care."
if it don& #39;t apply, let it fly, but one of the reasons feminism is failing (or has failed) is because it is poisoned by self-interested biases & bourgeois aspirations. reductive claims abound because it is easier to emulate men & reproduce structures of dominance than to rebel.
finding a "family provider" to hire a maid and/or a nanny so that you can live off your husband& #39;s money while you bank yours is not the flex you think it is. "[black] women deserve luxury" is not feminist praxis. shifting from paternalism to "maternalism" is not revolutionary.
