notsweetynice
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I love babies and am very maternal...Even when I was a little girl I had a collection of dolls who I wished were real live babies. But this doesn't mean that I'm some traditional throw back to the 1950s. I'm also great at reading maps, have an aptitude for logic and am pretty strong and athletic and work part time. I also don't have a problem speaking the truth or standing up for myself.
But there is something I've noticed among a great majority of women today is that none of them will admit to any maternal instinct. It's as if having a maternal drive makes you weak or <gasp> old fashioned, unambitious, etc. I've always been a bit of a rebel and so I don't care..I love taking care of my baby (he's my third) and I'm not going to complain about it because I really do enjoy it. But I haven't seen almost any other women like me...The ones who haven't had kids say they have no maternal instinct and the ones who have kids like to talk about how they make poor homemakers too. It's all very strange! Is it really all that awful? And yet they seem to really like taking care of their dogs and cats...
I wonder if the feminist movement of the seventies has screwed us all up. It really is okay to like babies...It seems like the only people who allow themselves to admit that they like kids are men because they don't have to prove to people that they are tough and career oriented. It's just a given.
But there is something I've noticed among a great majority of women today is that none of them will admit to any maternal instinct. It's as if having a maternal drive makes you weak or <gasp> old fashioned, unambitious, etc. I've always been a bit of a rebel and so I don't care..I love taking care of my baby (he's my third) and I'm not going to complain about it because I really do enjoy it. But I haven't seen almost any other women like me...The ones who haven't had kids say they have no maternal instinct and the ones who have kids like to talk about how they make poor homemakers too. It's all very strange! Is it really all that awful? And yet they seem to really like taking care of their dogs and cats...
I wonder if the feminist movement of the seventies has screwed us all up. It really is okay to like babies...It seems like the only people who allow themselves to admit that they like kids are men because they don't have to prove to people that they are tough and career oriented. It's just a given.