If Feminists Are About Choice, Why Do So Many Bash Young Mothers?
Mother’s Day is a day where we’re supposed to celebrate our mothers and the women in our lives who are mothers. New York Times journalist Elizabeth Bruenig took the day to share her experience of becoming a mother at 25, and the radical feminist wing of Twitter was not pleased.
Feminism is supposed to be about equality. It’s what I hear all of the time when I say that I believe in equal rights, but I’m not a feminist. We’ve all heard the “if you believe in equal rights, then you’re a feminist” argument before, but this ignores so many of the problems in the modern feminist movement. Elizabeth Bruenig’s situation is proof enough because if feminism were truly about equality — and not just equality between the sexes, but supporting women’s choices equally — then why are they bashing young mothers on Twitter?