The Corporate Latter
this just in
I am thrilled you are helping women's lib for women who are paid for their job, what I don't understand is why you had to put me and others like me down.
From the beginning to end of each article you write, you seem to want to push women up the corporate latter by stepping on stay at home mothers heads. Why?
I am what I am, that is what matters to me. What you say about me normally I really would not care because I have self esteem but since you are doing it on a National level it seems to bother me. Whether or not a mom stays at home or goes to a paid job, it is her choice and not yours to convince her one way or another. A philosopher you might be but you sound more like an angry old women who is too narrow minded to understand both sides of the fence (hense I said you "sounded").
Please feel free to look at Canada's opinion on stay at home mom's and you tell me as a feminist that you are happy with the discrimination the Canadian government is doing to keep women in poverty because they choose to be at home.
Your facts are there, but reality is no daycare worker can do what I can do with my children. Reason is on my side, but I won't force that on anyone, these are my choices for my children and my family. Feel free to debate why you think women should be in the paid workforce just stop shoving it down our throat, or unless you like being the most hated woman in North America.
Sara Landriault
stay at home childcare advocate
spokesperson for "care of the child" Coalition
"Fund the Child" Movement
http://choiceforchildcare.blogspot.com
http://fundthechild.blogspot.com
Comments
I read your blog as much as I can. I never feel you want to "push women up the corporate latter by stepping on stay at home mothers heads". I believe you are making points about personal responsibily through personal choice. Of course some women can choose to stay home with children. I always feel you are pointing out there is a different way to live ones life. The stay at home mom choice has been seen and heard repeatedly in American culture. Your points on being a feminst have not been seen or heard at the same widespread level. The benefits to feminist women must be pointed out by someone. Why not you?
As far as this whole Walmart worker thing goes, maybe if these low wage workers had seen and heard the images and facts of feminism the way you point them out they would not be in that boat. What if instead of seeing the lovely, satified stay at home Brady mom on TV they had seen a powerful, satisfied working feminist? What if instead of believing a husband and children were their destiny, they had been tuned into the power and satisfaction that comes from being your own powerful, beautiful person first?
Posted by: Tina | September 13, 2006 02:19 PM
Let me get this straight. Sara has enough self esteem to take criticism, but not if it's done on a "National level". She is also upset that people who don't work don't have any money.
Yet reason is on her side.
I'm sorry, but I don't get it! And what's this "fund the child" stuff? Do I understand correctly that the taxpayers are supposed to pay for you to wipe your own kid's butt? Where is the choice for the taxpayer?
I'd like to point out that there is an alternative to daycare: a stay-home husband.
Posted by: Redneck Feminist | September 14, 2006 02:28 AM
as a recovering stay at home husband, our son just started daycare, it's great to be working again.
as to sara's insistance that only stay-at-home parents can truly offer their children all the world has to offer, utter nonsense.
the professional caregivers at my son's ECE centre teach him so much more about socializing with other children and introduce him to the world of learning in a way i never could.
of course they can't love him the way his parents do but they aren't expected to. he gets plenty of love at home. afterall, it's not as though he moved into the daycare, he just visits for a few hours a day.
Posted by: jeff | September 15, 2006 06:33 PM
redneck feminist
I am a stay at home dad in a single income family.
It is the hardest and most satisfying job I have ever had.
Whoopee for me! (j/k)
Here in Canada the tax system is set up to discriminate against one income families.
There are many tax deductions and tax funded subsides for childcare.
Very little in the way of support for parents who decide to raise/childcare their own off spring.
So......the tax payer is already paying some one else to wipe some little kids butt.
Equality in some fashion is all I ask for.
The feminist movement is far closer to acheving that "equality" than stay at home parents.
I could care less who works or doesn't. There is "value" in being a home maker.
It's time to stop belittling it and encourage parents to partake in that value.
Posted by: Steven | September 15, 2006 07:53 PM