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Once again, not earth shattering
This feels like yet another article trying to make a controversy where none exists. While I find little objectionable in Richard's viewpoint, I do not find "take time for yourself" and "let your husband do the childcare and see what it's like" to be particularly earth-shattering or controversial statements. It sounds more like 1970's consciousness raising.
But I do disagree with the notion that feminism has so rigidly defined mothering that women don't know what to do. If it's so narrowly defined, why do we have so many women doing it in so many different ways? Why do we have the media's so-called Mommy Wars? And since so few women call themselves feminists these days, why would they be hampered by feminism? You can't have it both ways.