I mean, yes AND. Yes, it's important that it's silly/unrealistic to talk about "children", especially small children, separate from the women who care for those children and who are likely to find themselves in a position where if they can't bring their child someplace, they can't go. Yes, we live in a time where we especially love creepy psychosexual misogyny where people love to see a woman with children and know that this is proof that she's a slut who had sex. We need to be alert to how normalized misogyny is.
AND, one of the ways that misogyny is normalized is the constant use of the image of the childless career woman, a bitch who hates children and loves oppressing other women because her cold, unmotherly soul makes her a villain. This is another kind of tyranny of vulnerability where women who have violated the patriarcal order to have children must constantly answer for those this unwomanly choice as an attack on other, better, women and also an attack on vulnerable, helpless little children.
AND, because of this misogyny a lot of attention is paid on social media to exhortations against this supposed very serious and oppressive tendency for people to hate children and insult children and find children unpleasant to be around. Much less attention is paid to the pretty universal correlation between "pro-family" politicians and policies that starve children.
So, sure, but why did you feel the need to say that on this post in this, the summer of 2026?
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