I find myself on the forefront of a battle I never knew I would have to fight. Growing I was very much a flower and frills kind of girl. I wore dresses and only dresses, picked flowers, played with barbies, and dreamed of two things. I dreamed of adventure and I dreamed of being a homemaker. While I have indeed adventured I have not known the joys of being making a house a home for my family. It truly is my only regret.
The problem, however, is not that I have dreamed and lost, but in the backlash I get from "feminists" when I reveal this. How is it progressive for a man to want to be a stay at home dad, but holding woman kind back when I want the same thing? Further more how is this building equality. To chastise me and other women like me for enjoying what is considered a traditional role. So what if it's considered traditional nothing else about me is traditional so why hate me for that one thing.
The great female freedom fighters of the past fought so that everybody, that means both women and men, could decide their societal positions despite gender and not because of. It isn't about me being a working parent because that uplifts women. It's about me being a stay at home mom because that uplifts me. Isn't that what Susan B Anthony, Carol Downer, Abby Kelly, and the ultimately wanted; for women to have the opportunity and power to uplift themselves?
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