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Get your dirty laundry out of my feminism
June 3rd, 2008
So Rebecca Walker thinks Alice Walker sucked ass as a parent, and it’s all because of feminism.
If what Rebecca has to say about Alice is true, then yes indeed, Alice flunks Parenting 101. But its petty and ignorant to blame one individual’s cluelessness on feminism.
You can’t throw a stick these days without hitting a mother who lets their kid have sex at 13, leaves them with relatives, ignores school events, makes them go shopping for clothes alone, etc. etc. It’s called neglect, not feminism. And what do we call it when fathers do these same things? I’m pretty sure nobody clucks their tongues at how feminism has destroyed their paternal instincts.
If Alice truly believes motherhood “enslaves” women, as Rebecca claims she does, well, that’s really sad for both of them. But Rebecca should know by now that if anything, feminism has liberated women from the enslavement of lack of choice.
Rebecca goes on in this article about how she loves being everything Alice was not, now that she’s an “adult.” Problem is, adults don’t publish long, whiny rants about their evil mothers. That’s what vindictive, emotionally stunted adult-wannabes do. Actual adults get therapy.
And adults don’t make self-serving generalizations about ideologies, in effect blaming many for the faults of one.
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