Can I ask what you ladies think of this -

[yorkiepuds]

wewillnot.wordpress.com/

Just wondering??

I'm just struggling with the comment that motherhood is boring. I manage to have children and keep my brain busy. I would rather the boring bits of motherhood than not seeing my kids grow up at all.

It's also that motherhood is a tool to suppress woman. Surely motherhood is a choice and how you interpret it and practice it is also your choice.

I've read most of the site and I think this kind of feminism does more to hurt than help the cause.

She didn't enjoy motherhood, that's clear. Looks like she enjoys a very busy academic and social life and frankly for some people that's too much to give up.

But I think what she might mean is that stuff related to motherhood is oppressive. For example you have to stay in and put your child first. You take a pay cut or give up work. Your network of friends decreases. You are not 'free' anymore.

It's just that some of us are willing to exchange that for the joy of bringing up our kids whilst others feel it's too much to ask.

It is a personal choice, luckily we have the contraceptive pill so we can make that choice.

I'm sure motherhood is boring for some women.

I don't think women are free to interpret and practice it how they like. Just like everything for everyone in life. We live in a society with particular expectations, conventions, norms, structures etc that mean that we aren't just free-floating individuals making free context-less choices. Our choices are constrained. And the 'choices' of motherhood are constrained (just as any choice is). So they can be constrained in a way that restricts or supresses women.

So it's okay for this child to grow up and find out that his mother gave him away because she thought motherhood was boring. That, in my opinion is an evil thing to do to anyone.

I wasn't saying the post about giving up your child was bad for feminism, I was talking about the rest of the blog. It reads to me as not feminist but very sexist, and frankly insulting to woman who don't agree with her dogma.