There& #39;s a grown man in this article who isn& #39;t working who broke after THREE DAYS of watching a damn toddler. He& #39;s not even working right now. This woman owned a company with 10+ employees. Her shutting it down is a coercive "choice." Call it what it is: misogyny.
And this is also a great example of the choice/coercion binary marginalized folks must often face. It isn& #39;t either or. I hate the phrase "opting out." It sanitizes and obscures what& #39;s actually happening. It reifies the "can women have it all" conversations.
Opting out is a classed phrase anyway. I "opted out" of working degrading low pay domestic/retail jobs that wouldn& #39;t allow me to homeschool my kid, but did I really have options? Except no one is gonna go to bat for me because "beggars can& #39;t be choosers." https://twitter.com/thotscholar/status/1264227073855492097?s=19">https://twitter.com/thotschol...
The outrage around this is also because it& #39;s middle class+ women who "did everything right" who are being forced, via systemic and interpersonal misogyny, to "opt out." These are women who are *deserving*, not poor prostitute parents, not deviant women who made poor "choices."
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