It sucks that it appears pretending you don’t have kids is pretty much the only way to avoid being punished for being a mother. Ideally, we’d be fighting to make it so that work culture was more accommodating of parenthood. But that requires people who are willing to sacrifice for the sake of people who will come…

You shouldn’t reply to obvious trolls, but I’m starring it because I wanted to say “fuck you” to this particular one, as well.

LOL, sure, because women chose to be biologically capable of having kids? And women chose to be born into a society where women are drafted into doing most of the parenting work by default, even when they and their partners make a deliberate effort to be egalitarian about it? And women chose to exist in a society…

Women don’t make children by themselves, for themselves, as some kind of idiosyncratic hobby. They should have partners sharing the burden. Societ should share the burden too. Also, fuck you.

On top of this movie being, predictable, insipid and nothing like actual life, I’m afraid they’re going to make me crazy with the adoption storyline. Two of my kids are adopted. I’m their real mother, no one else is. They’re my real kids. We’re not on loan to each other. We can’t give each other back on days when we’d…

You’ve missed the point if you think anyone is saying you shouldn’t be concerned about the direction the country is going or that you should be passive. The point is to examine WHY you back a certain candidate for the less overt biases that are inherent in support. And look at who you think is best capable of…