There's no such thing as a Stay-at-Home Feminist
Feminism is about giving women choices, a promise to every little girl that she can grow up to be anything she wants to be. Well, anything except one: a stay-at-home mom. This isn’t surprising in any way, but I have to give Elizabeth Wurtzel credit for being so forthright about it in her recent article in The Atlantic . She very directly refutes the idea that women can make any choice they desire and still be called feminists. "Who can possibly take feminism seriously when it allows everything, as long as women choose it?" she asks after comparing feminism—perhaps too aptly—to an "easy lay." And from there she very squarely pits feminism against wife and motherhood for the umpteenth time. Wurtzel repeats—even makes a subtitle of—the old canard that being a stay-at-home mother isn’t "a real job." She meanders through well over a thousand words loosely related to this idea before finally putting an underline to it: "something becomes a job when you are...