Writer's Block: Go it alone

[eumelia]

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Yes.

Very obvious and self-explanatory question.

If you don't have children you're not a "real woman".
You have to be a "real woman" in order to be a Mother.
If you're single, you're a failure anyway.

Being child-free is a kind of scarlet letter on your social standing - you're refusing to contribute to the human race, refusing to be a responsible adult and all that junk.

*sigh*

The answer to all those questions (thought the holiday part is ambiguous) is "Yes".

Comments

[mao4269.livejournal.com]

And at the same time, if someone is a Mother (or even has the genitalia and gender expression associated with one) she can't be a Good Worker. I'm preaching to the choir, and really just said that to be able to give you a link to a new blog (http://newmodelmommy.blogspot.com/2009/12/blog-is-born.html) on the subject. Despite that topic, it might've been more relevant to your previous gender-related post...The author is moved to Israel, volunteered for the army, got assigned as a secretary (she had a bachelor's from University of Chicago, which clearly meant that her talents were based used as a secretary for a higher-ranked man), nearly poisoned her C.O. with awful coffee in order to get reassigned (prison would've been a reassignment, too...), wound up as a combat medic., and said that the hardest part of that job was getting the soldiers with whom she worked not to see her as a Woman [in need of protection] but as a fellow [male] Soldier.

I think the holiday part of the Writers' Block prompt assumes that the people answering are middle class U.S.ians, for whom Family Time tends to be almost entirely at holidays. In the Israeli context where the bulk of Friday nights are Family Time "the holidays" has different connotations.

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

I think the holiday part of the Writers' Block prompt assumes that the people answering are middle class U.S.ians

Most Writer's Block questions have seemed to assume the interlocutor is a middle-class US American. That's why I seriously dislike that feature on LJ.

And so much agreement with the OP.