My therapist is a
feminist, and today she expressed that I'm making a really important
feminist statement by choosing not to have kids, when the supposed duty
of women to pro-create is still so profound in our culture. I told her
it was mainly because I didn't want to f*** up my medications that I take for schizo-affective disorder and didn't
feel capable of taking care of another human being 24/7 who was
completely dependent on me, not to mention the fact that one of the
reasons Tommy and I got married was that we both didn't want kids. My
therapist said it was still a feminist statement for a woman to even be
able to think in terms of not wanting children. And then it hit me: if I
met a woman with hairy armpits who kept her "maiden" name when she got
married who said she didn't want kids, my "feminist radar," if you will,
would go off.
So, put together like Kathleen Hanna's famous jigsaw, this is my brand of feminism. What's yours? For example, a woman could choose to HAVE children as part of her personal feminist creed, etc....
So, put together like Kathleen Hanna's famous jigsaw, this is my brand of feminism. What's yours? For example, a woman could choose to HAVE children as part of her personal feminist creed, etc....
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