ashortstoryaboutlove reblogged
[M]en who share household and child-rearing responsibilities with women are mistaken if they think that this act of choice, often buttressed by the gratitude and admiration of others, is anything like the woman’s experience of being forcibly socialized into these tasks and of having others perceive this as her natural function in the scheme of things.
Uma Narayan, “The Project of Feminist Epistemology: Perspectives from a Nonwestern Feminist” (1989)
#PREACH#i hate this so much#dads are glamorized and praised for doing stuff moms are just expected to do#it makes me want to vomit#and i love how my husband has commented that#he doesn't understand why i don't want to be a stay at home mom#he'd be a stay at home dad in a flash if i had a job that paid well enough for him to do it#and i just want to tell him to get his head out of his ass because i want to make my own choices#not be guilted into a choice that someone ELSE thinks i should make#i'm going to spend the day being angry about this i can tell already