Letters to the Editor
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The "Mommy Wars" only rage because it sells
The point is that we are bombarded by this "Mommy Wars" stuff, is because it sells. The issue is sufficiently polarizing, because some significant verbiage has been expended on making it a polarizing issue in the first place.
I thought Feminism was about women having choices. Or, at least that is what the Women's Movement keeps telling us. Except, some of the most toxic voices in the Women's Movement get their positions showcased as having a validity that basically negates the choice to stay at home, because women who do have somehow betrayed the cause.
I am not a Feminist, and I am glad of it, because I don't live stewing in anxiety obecause I don't live up to whatever ideals that the Talking Heads of the Women's Movement think I should be.
Whether the book is good or not becomes irrelevant when it becomes the vehicle to push the whole "Mommy Wars" concept as a legitimate face of the movement for equality between the sexes. Indeed, between the"Mommy Wars" and the idea that equality is measured by the kind of job you hold and how much money you make is offensive because it is women continuing to buy into the stereotype that the traditional roles of women don't matter, because they don't draw a paycheck.
I actually doubt the author was pushing that point of view. In fact, she says it was not her aim. Thus, it was the interviewer who drew that inference.