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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kirsten-powers/this-is-why-so-many-peopl_b_23328.html
In a Washington Post oped yesterday, Linda Hirshman, a self described feminist philosopher, treats full-time motherhood with the curiosity of an anthropologist who has stumbled upon a previously undiscovered tribe of people. Like SNL’s “Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer”, Hirshman seems to be “frightened and confused” by this bizarre creature called the “stay-at-home mother.” What could possibly account for their freakish behavior?
According to Hirshman: “The tasks of housekeeping and child rearing [are] not worthy of the full time and talents of intelligent and educated human beings. They do not require a great intellect, they are not honored and they do not involve risks and the rewards that risk brings.”
It’s incredible that the drudgery of working full time at a law firm is deemed worthy of women’s “full time talents” but a woman dedicating herself to raising a family isn’t. Hirshman then bizarrely asks: “Oh, and by the way, where were the dads when all this household labor was being distributed?” Umm, if they have a stay at home wife, they are probably working all day. And for most people, it’s actually called being a mother and a wife, not “household labor”. Hirshman later endorses the viewpoint that women should refuse to do 70% of the housework, ignoring the fact that if women are only doing 70% of the cleaning that’s pretty revolutionary considering how much cleaning most men do on a regular basis before they cohabitate with women.
I saw Hirshman on 60 minutes and was shocked when she announced that women graduates of Ivy League schools who had left their careers to raise families were making the “wrong choice”. There it was laid bare: feminism really isn’t about women having the freedom to make choices. It’s about women making the “right choice” as determined by people like Linda Hirshman.