
Alice Walker's Daughter Slams Mom for Radical Feminist Ideology
Submitted by Mastodon on Fri, 2013-05-24 20:33
Article here. Excerpt:
'Rebecca Walker explained her family feud for The Mail Online, a personal essay blasting her mother's lifelong hatred of motherhood.
"The truth is that I very nearly missed out on becoming a mother - thanks to being brought up by a rabid feminist who thought motherhood was about the worst thing that could happen to a woman.
You see, my mum taught me that children enslave women. I grew up believing that children are millstones around your neck, and the idea that motherhood can make you blissfully happy is a complete fairytale ... Feminism has much to answer for denigrating men and encouraging women to seek independence whatever the cost to their families."'
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Wikipedia on Alice Walker here.
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Independence? No kids? Not so bad.
Really, nothing wrong with independence (if that means being single all your lufe, fine). Also nothing wrong with being child-free.
What is wrong is saying that these are desirable goals as a response to the INHERENTLY EVIL act of being in a relationship with a man. And as for kids, well, I suppose Alice never thought that telling her daughter that having kids was a terrible burden just might cause her to come to the concludion that gee, I'm unwanted/unloved by my own mom.
I have no problem saying that as parents go, Alice Walker sucked. Wouldn't blame her daughter for legally disowning her much less never seeing her again.