You see, my mum taught me that children enslave women. I grew up believing that children are millstones around your neck, and the idea that motherhood can make you blissfully happy is a complete fairytale.Very interesting article.
In fact, having a child has been the most rewarding experience of my life. Far from 'enslaving' me, three-and-a-half-year-old Tenzin has opened my world. My only regret is that I discovered the joys of motherhood so late - I have been trying for a second child for two years, but so far with no luck.
Incidentally, I love the portrait of Rebecca Walker at the link. Not that I have an eye for these things, but it reminds me of portraits I've seen by Annie Leibovitz.
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I have long thought that feminism, in the mad dash to free women from the injustice of servitude and being treated as chattel, has spoken of empowerment and career over all else. The result is that they've reduced women to a commodity, valued not for who they are but whether they produce anything deemed valuable.
If we ever free ourselves from the millstone of children, we will cease to be. How is that liberating, at least beyond one life cycle?
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