Why do pro-choice/progressive/radical feminists turn children into an enemy?
^Women post things like this, propositioning childbearing as an inherent flaw and challenge to women's liberation. They claim that it's either women OR children who are deserving of respect, recognition, and protection. They never stop to ask why it is never both who are worthy of it.
The result of such a limited and bigoted mindset is overwhelmingly deplorable. The child, especially before birth, is a hinderance to tolerate at best, even if the child is wanted and chosen. The woman puts up with their existence for the sake of practicality or sentimentality. At worst, children are the problem that leads to more overt forms of patriarchal oppression.
In their eyes, either the woman is destined for great things, or she must give it up entirely to give the great things to the child. Abortion then is used as an equalizer to "protect" women from the evils that would befall them as caused by children.
But what if abortion was never about liberation from oppression, but acceptance of it?
Have you forgotten that proto-feminism and first wave feminism were created and sustained by mothers? Why is it that since the second wave of modern feminism, mothers have been left behind? Abortion was legalized well before maternity leave was enforced. Birth control with horrendous side effects were forced as the only option for avoiding pregnancy, before marital rape was outlawed. Obstetric violence was accepted as the norm by childfree women who fearmonger about birth, at the expense of normalizing midwifery led care and birth justice. Why do "progressive" feminists and red pillers both see women as inferior for their childbearing potential and status? They say the same thing, just with different words and different arguments. Either a woman is liberated/too loose, or she is shackled/dutifully impregnated.
The Madonna/Whore complex is gone, and now replaced by something far more sinister: The Slave Mother/Free Woman complex. It relies on the killing of innocent children for an evil world that they had no part in creating, and on the enslavement of childbearing women who are seen as inferior for daring to utilize their non-male biology.
You cannot expect liberation for women OR children so long as you allow oppressors to pit them against each other. I was not my mother's enemy before, during, and after birth. Neither are you. If you want to know your enemy, look at the ones who immediately open handcuffs for the woman who becomes pregnant, and mocks anyone who says they shouldn't.
So long as children have to die through abortion, infant exposure, child abuse, and trafficking as linked to women's oppression, then we will continue to see women continually shackled by their own biology, by THEIR own offspring. We will continue to see the wage gap for mothers, continue to see birthing women die from medical negligence, continue to watch women be coerced into abortions they didn't want by their community, we will continue to watch as women and children are isolated from society, culture, and political influence.
Only one group benefits from this unnatural system of subjugation, and the children never had a say in that system's formation. YOU know EXACTLY who benefits from this oppression.
My "reply" to the art above is this: Both mother and child were always destined for greatness. The people who deny this equity are the ones who want you browbeaten into subjugation.
And I know damn well feminists can do better than that.
