I think Mothers and other childbearing parents are the most important members of our society and should be respected for what they do.
I'd like to preface the rest of this post by saying that I will use the term "Mother" because that is the most common title for parents who birth and raise children, but I am speaking about parents of any gender that do so, including the parents who raise children they did not conceive themselves.
This is also not to invalidate the fact that there are definitely people who do not deserve to be parents and should not be.
The way that this society treats Mothers is absolutely disgusting, I will never understand how you can disrespect people like that, knowing that you exist because of them.
Believing that being a parent is not as important as having a career is misogynistic and just plain wrong.
When someone says that being a stay at home parent is wrong or patriarcal, I genuinely want to throttle them. Some people WANT to be around to raise their children, it is an incredibly important job and takes so much time, energy, resources, patience, studying, and skill to raise someone well. The fact that this society expects people to raise children and work full time without support is horrendous, it makes it so much harder for people to spend the time they should with their children.
This is NOT to say that you are a bad parent if you work! Or that you shouldn't be allowed to have a career or anything like that! Capitalism just makes it impossible to raise children, because of how much energy and time it takes to simply support yourself let alone make the times and space to spend with your kids.
The way people treat Mothers in public is also fucking awful, it makes me SO mad when someone says some bullshit like "children shouldn't be allowed in public" or being angry when a baby cries or a kid does something childish. THEY. ARE. CHILDREN. and they have as much a right to be places as you do! Excluding children is excluding mothers and that is so sexist it's crazy!
The hate towards women who breastfeed in public is also insane because wtf do you mean it's inappropriate to FEED YOUR BABY????? What are you cunts on???
Mothers deserve our support as a society, if you do not have your own children (or if you do) it is your responsibility to protect mothers and their children, no matter what gender you are. Children are our future and yes they can be little assholes but they are LEARNING a child does not pop out of the womb fully realized and treating children like little adults and holding them to that standard is so horrendous! No they cannot self regulate without being taught, no they cannot understand complex things and unstated social cues and boundaries, no they cannot be silent and still when YOU want them to, they are not pets to be trained or objects you can turn on and off at your convenience.
Children are the most endangered members of our society and deserve our love and protection! AND SO DO THE PEOPLE WHO ARE RAISING THEM. The effects of pregnancy on the body and brain are astounding and mothers deserve so much grace for what they went through to bring all of us into the world. Making fun or saying child birth is "disgusting" or "body horror" is a terrible thing to say to someone going through something so important and difficult, you need to keep your fucking opinions to yourself.
Also invalidating the pain of women who lose their children, are unable to carry, or go through an abortion is so disgusting and I genuinely hate you for that.
It takes a village and YOU ARE THE VILLAGE! So stop shitting on parents and do your part!
Everyone has their own aspirations in life, just because you personally don't want or like children does not give you the right to disregard and disrespect those who do. It is misogynistic to diss mothers (especially stay at home mothers)
It is SO fucked up and elitist to tell people that they should not have children if they are poor, or that it's wrong to bring children into the world because of the state of it. THE WORLD HAS ALWAYS AND WILL ALWAYS BE DANGEROUS! Mothers are raising our future, put some godamn respect on that title.
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