@nearlyamummyof2boys ha! Yes having children is enough to turn any woman into a rampaging militant feminist! It's like until you have that first baby you don't fully 'wake up' to the full realisation of what women are expected to do as well as looking at women's lot generally throughout history and seeing it from such a deeper place of understanding.
Before it can just be this arbitrary concept that you agree with in theory, but then bam. You have a baby and it really dawns on you how important women's rights are and women's lib, equality, as well as the sacrifices women make again and again.
Motherhood just adds this whole new level of deeper understanding to how much men can take women for granted or how women the world over are used and abused. It's definitely not essential to have had children to know or feel this of course, but when I had my first, over the years following that i really felt the power of women and recognized what they did, whether they had children or not, just what we as a gender achieve.
I am so proud of women. And I say this as a lover of men who is also constantly supprised and amazed by their beautiful hearts and ways.
It's 2020 and the men now should be shouldering child rearing burdens to a certain extent, yes I will absolutely love being a house wife with these twins and seeing them grow and being at home.
But come a certain point I will be back out there working and educating myself and expecting my partner to support me as much as I have him. i.e doing a lot of childminding while I do study and work.
As long as your choosing you are empowered but when I see men take it as red their children will be looked after for every bloody thing without consulting their partners it definitely gives me so much rage. The assumption!
Women who stick together are stronger and I am so grateful for you all wonderful women very day I log on. I definitely need the combined strength this coming week. One week till the scan 😬😬🤯🤯