Friday, March 2, 2012

In my Poli Sci class we were talking about Alienation this week.  We of course discussed the feminist side of alienation.  One point I thought was particularly interesting, alienated from motherhood.  The basic idea is that women no longer have control on how they mother.  Of course freedom of their body was discussed in the context of abortion and birth control. But also the fact that women are controlled in the amount of children they can have.   There are so many pressures, you can't over too many children because the world is already overpopulated, why bring more polluters, consumers etc. into this world.  Poor women shouldn't have children because they cannot support them.  Why would you give up your career to have children?  So on and so on.
I just thought it was interesting that our society has come to that.  Where in one breath well tell girls that it's okay to kill a child and in the next say that they're wrong for wanting to have children.

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