Good week article 66Elle Elle, many of the things you mention (making choices that give my baby the...
Sue
Mothers just can't win for losing: very involved and you are smothering and obsessed, more laissez-fair and you are putting your kids at a disadvantage and limiting their futures. Sigh.
Good week article 67traditional donkey fable deleted I like this version: An old man, a boy & a donkey were going to town. The boy rode...
I find it starts at pregnancy -- there seems to be so much overreaction and compebreastion to get your baby off to a good start before he-she is even born. As though whether or not you eat organically, paint your nails or colour your hair, take a Tylenol, or sign up for half a dozen specialty pregnancy fitness clbuttes somehow make you a "better" pregnant woman. Like her successor Professional Mom, Professional Pregnant Woman seems to think there is some kind of compebreastive category for gestating.
And then there is birth! Go unmedicated and there is a certain segment of "society" i.e. other women, who label you a crazy martyr, opt for the drugs-interventions and the other segment buttumes you couldn't be bothered doing your research. Either way women are judged selfish, just like in the breast-bottle & WOH-SAH dichotomies. Why do we do this to each other? Why can't we give one another the benefit of the doubt, that we are all just doing what we think needs to be done.
Women need to look inside themselves for validation, instead of caring about what society might think of their decisions and lifestyles. We need to be stronger, but also kinder to one another.
Elle 2-16-2005
