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Politics : The Left Wing Porch
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To: Dayuhan who wrote (4910)6/30/2001 8:45:53 AM
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Oddly, some feminists seem to be deeply offended by the notion that a male can not only be a single parent, but
can find single parenthood easy. I think it challenges their assumption of inherent superiority.

You mean an assumption of general superiority of women, or superiority WRT childrearing? I think some feminists, as well as some women who don't regard themselves as feminists, see women as morally superior because of their historic role of being surpressed, and I think this is wrong.

I agree that the view that women are better able to rear children simply by virtue of the fact that they're female is borne out of social inertia. I think one's talent at raising children would be profoundly effected by one's own experience with one's family of origin and less so by gender. It troubles me that some feminists are disturbed by the idea that men can be good, sometimes better, parents. I think feminism has really veered off the track in this regard.

I also liked your point about many men being better able to cope with the social isolation inherent in raising young children. I'd never thought about it that way. I know for me, the social isolation was the most stressful part of parenthood.

There was a great editorial by Anna Quindlen in this week's Newsweek on the subject of Andrea Yates and the physicalexhaustion and social isolation faced by mothers. If anyone knows how to get an online version, would he or she please post it?
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