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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I want to work and be a mom. My brains will melt at home w/t a job. Yes, school hours are challenging but manageable — one parent drops off, the other picks up. Let people vent and complain! Once they go on vacation that they can afford due to dual income, and provide kids with extra curriculars that they can afford in this area due to dual income, they will feel better and choose work over staying at home again and again.
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No, not everyone would make the same choices you make. The point is to have the choice and not be told you have to stay at home or you have to work. Not by a man and not by another woman.

DCUM is definitely going backward if we are fighting the mommy wars again. 
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The anti-feminists would very much love it if women didn’t have a choice. When they criticize “feminism” what do you think that means, exactly? The legal protections women won to give them choice: job protections so they couldn’t be fired for being a woman or being pregnant; equal educational and sports opportunities; the ability have a credit card and take out a mortgage; and probably most importantly the ability to control their reproduction (birth control is still legal and not going anywhere). [/quote]

And some “feminists” want to shame some women who choose not to work outside the home rather than recognizing that the feminist movement was about being able to make choices, not which choice to make. Real feminists support that ability to choose and the mechanisms that make that possible. They don’t call people trad wives and tell them how to live.

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zero feminists want to take away a woman’s legal right to stay home with her child if she chooses that. But plenty of anti-feminists want to take away women’s legal rights, or manipulate the system to force women to stay home. [/quote]

Women claiming to be feminists post here telling women who stay at home that they are somehow betraying their fellow women by not having a job/career. Or that they don’t respect those women. Just like some SAHMs used to criticize women who worked out of the home back in the day.

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That's not true. Women who claim to be feminists generally understand that there are several waves of feminism, but one of feminism's most important tenets is uniting, not dividing, women to address common struggles.  [/quote]

I am not going to dig up the threads for you, but yes, it’s true.[/quote]

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