July 31, 2006
Choice
- Author Linda Hirshman is calling stay-at-home mothers a "brain drain." She is even calling for a reproductive strike until men agree to take on more work at home. Hirshman said she believes it is time for a revolution.
"It is time. After 25 years of hearing from nothing but the stay-at-home moms and why it's so wonderful to stay at home, it is time for another message," Hirshman said.
Hirshman said women could only lead flourishing lives if they have a career outside the home.
"My most important message is that women are bearing the full burden of housekeeping as well as childbearing, and that combination makes it very difficult for them to work in the public or larger world," Hirshman said.
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- Hirshman said she thinks women who stay at home, especially highly educated ones, are not using their capacities fully. She said they should stay on the job and push for change in society.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that Linda Hershman is pro-choice. Except when it comes to raising kids.
For the record, my wife is one of those "highly educated" stay at home moms. She wouldn't have it any other way.
On the web Posted by AlexC at July 31, 2006 9:55 PM
If she were pro-life, Channel 10 wouldn't have given her the air time!
Posted by: TrekMedic251 at July 31, 2006 10:16 PMMs. Hirshman gives us a classic example of Pillars 3 and 5 of the liberal faith shown above. Decisions regarding child-rearing should be made by individual mothers, and fathers based on what is best for their individual families. Yet, Ms. Hirshman’s form of thought control insists that all men should do more at home and all women should work outside the home.
For the record, my husband does more dishes and changes more diapers than I do.
The next step is that thought control is enforced via pillar 5, unearned guilt. Those, "highly educated," stay-at-homes, are made to feel guilty that they are not contributing their brains to society’s good. Maybe the cure for cancer won’t be found since the genius woman doctor who would come up with it is at home wiping up baby drool. Hmm, cure for cancer or baby drool? I feel guilty just thinking about it and I do work outside the home. This is a very insidious form of thought control more commonly known as political correctness.
The other side of the coin is perhaps we already missed out on the cure for cancer since the Dr. who would have discovered it dropped out of high school since he was raised by a $10/ hr. day care worker and NOT by his highly intelligent and educated mother. This difference would be even more pronounced if the highly intelligent and educated mothers were not only staying at home but home-schooling.
It’s clearly foolish to try to make these decisions on a general basis, which brings us back to the concept of an individual making her own decisions for her own life, both before AND after the birth of her child.
Posted by: dagny at August 3, 2006 3:50 PM | What do you think? [2]