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Writer's Block: Go it alone
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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".
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".
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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.