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Child-rearing can be a tedious and thankless undertaking.

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How insulting is it to suggest the best thing women can do is raise other people to do incredible things?

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It's become impossible to enjoy most quality television shows because the hurt or endangered women device is so frequently used.

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There is something to be said for the power of figureheads. After Hillary Clinton became secretary of state, a record number of countries posted female ambassadors to the U.S. - some of whom have dubbed this 'the Hillary effect.'

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Even the notion that women should have children at all is based on the idea that a woman's inherent and most important role is that of mother. Shockingly, men's 'innate' roles are a lot more fun than the ones bestowed on women.

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As a kid, I wasn't sure that I would ever get married - I was not the kind of little girl who played at being a bride.

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My parents have a wonderful marriage, but they have been together since my mother was 12, married when they were just teenagers and are barely ever separated. They even work together. As a result, I have always thought of marriage as involving the loss of a certain amount of autonomy.

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Once you get married, women are still implicitly expected to do the majority of the housework and take care of any future children.

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Whether it's repro rights, violence against women, or just plain old vanilla sexism, most issues affecting women have one thing in common - they exist to keep women 'in their place.' To make sure that we're acting 'appropriately,' whatever that means.

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A huge part of keeping women in their place has to do with creating a really limited definition of what a 'real' woman is like. And a ton of that what-makes-a-woman nonsense is attached to motherhood. Apparently, by virtue of having ovaries and a uterus, women are automatic mommies or mommies-to-be.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: November 1st, 1978

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