Depressing bollox about Yummy Mummies

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blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/cristinaodone/100166536/most-women-would-rather-be-yummy-mummies-than-cherie-blairs/

More misogyny, especially the comments (I suspect Telegraph commenters make up a high proportion of STBXHs from the relationships section here).

I am posting it in the hope that some people might come along with an intelligent comment or two to counter such nonsense.

If her premise is true, why isn't Cristina Odone quietly at home instead of oppressing other women through the public prints?

How does the Telegraph justify its "feckless single mothers on benefits are disgusting and scroungers" with an article saying women should be at home and not working?

I probably should have put this in the feminist section, so apologies...

She starts off with the wrong premise that anyone who works for a living and thinks women should not be reliant on men for their upkeep is automatically a high-flying, wealthy, bossy, upper-crust type. Cherie Blair may have ended up as a high-flying, wealthy & bossy but if she's urging women to be more financially independent she's got a lot in common with generations of women in my working-class family who don't think, but know that men can't be trusted with the housekeeping. :)

I'd rather be anyone than Cherie Blair

Absolutely - a fundamental flaw in her argument but will anyone reading it think: "Eh? Hang on a minute..."
I really hope they do.
It's that old stuff that women are damned if they do work (evil Mummies wrecking their children's mental health) and damned if they don't (may become dependant on benefits/thrown into poverty if their relationships fold, as 40 per cent currently do, especially if their children are very young and they can't afford childcare/don't have a highly enough paying job to cover if ex doesn't/ cant /wont contribute...

And that will be all their own fault then!!!!!!!

I was hoping the Guardian might come out with a strong counterpoint, but they have just asked their readers what they think...

Watches space...

I was replying to Corgito, not Doing It, there...

Sorry Cogito, I mean.

I don't think not liking Cherie Blair is a reason to agree with the arguments in that article

www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/jun/20/cherie-blair-criticises-career-yummy-mummies

And some more misogyny (the comments, not the article)...interspersed with a few reasonable comments, but not many.

I am always rather shocked at how many misogynists comment on the The Guardian website.

I've pretty much given up reading what makes mothers evil because I always seem to be in the group being spotlighted. :) However, I do feel strongly that some women are not served well by being advised or pressured to make themselves financially vulnerable. Romantic ideals of modern home-making so often mask the harsh reality of women trapped in unhappy relationships or subjected to financial abuse, believing they can't walk out because they don't have 50p to call their own.

There are ways to be an SAHP and not be financially vulnerable and not every husband is a penny-pinching martinet. But those who stick up for a woman's right to be financially independent should not be cariactured as strident career women or ridiculed for their opinions

Perhaps Christine odone should be asking why the majority of women's paid work pre children is poorly paid drudge work (if indeed that is the case) which it makes more financial sense to give up, and what we should do about that?

What we should do about that is make women aspire to something more than a man/a house/some kids. And not through positive discrimination, but through encouraging women to step up to the plate and succeed in life.