We are equal because we are more important. It can be a noble and honorable choice because it honors our families and pays tribute to our own unique roles in those families. Instead, women are directly and indirectly chastised for choosing to be a traditional mother. They are condescended to and pitied. Because they make feminists who have swallowed the rhetoric whole uncomfortable.
Women do deserve equal treatment, but modern feminism is wholly misguided.
It leaves women today confused about their own role in society and family, and has perpetuated the myth that motherhood equals serfdom. Women are now torn between the guilt of being self-centered and the shame of being selfless. Perhaps a more successful and less damaging tactic would have been to honor motherhood as one of many choices, and to push more men to consider someone other than themselves. All rights reserved.