"I Look Down On Young Women With Husbands And Kids And I’m Not Sorry"

I wish her mother had similar views and never given birth. After reading that article, I wouldn't be surprised if her mother felt the same way.

Being a feminist to me is having the ability to choose to do anything you want - whether it be having babies, backpacking through Asia, getting married, or being a CEO - or all of the above.

i think we should stop knocking women who don't make the same choice ("she's JUST a stay at home mom" or "she doesn't care enough about her kids not to work") - because it really goes both ways.

once we start supporting each other more society will too.

I don't agree with Ms Glass' opinions. I do believe housework is hard and not everyone is good at it. I also believe men don't complain about housework because (in most cases) they don't do them on a regular basis. Men do complain about their work that they have to do on a regular day basis whether their profession is a doctor or a janitor: they all complain out their work. I love my job and I have my moments that I complain about something about my job. I think Ms Glass is way off on this article. To shame women for what they do because she doesn't do it isn't feminist in any way. Feminism is empowering women. Ms Glass is merely oppressing other women.

Wow. so. i cannot have a successful and fulfilling life because i am a homemaker? really? and i bitch about how hard it is to take care of kids and a house to validate a lack of real accomplishments? hmmm thats why i am going to school on top of raising our son and baking another one and cleaning a house daily and cooking, etc so that i do have my own accomplishments. well to the writer of that sadly misinformed biased bullshit article.....i cant wait until you get knocked up and have to abandon your dreams or put them on hold because you realize how precious and awesome a gift it is to be a mother. and furthermore, when you're sitting there with your 400 cats and cracked tea cups, ill be miserable making bank at my forensics job and having an adoring husband and two beautiful well mannered and well adjusted children.

i get having an opinion and the whole opinions=assholes thing, but really? some people should have their tongues cut out first before they get to utter such idiocy!

WHAT..... "If women can do anything, why are we still content with applauding them for doing nothing?" - So raising kids is nothing? Thats a load of you know what. Some of the hardest working women out there are full time moms and wives and have an accomplished life. The way This article is sickening. Sickening!!!!!

Sorry. i may or may not be a little passionate about things like this.

It also irks me that her definition of women becoming equal is basically "become a man", "do what men do". No... women should be free to have the option to choose what they want and men should have that option too. I wonder if she'd have the same resentment towards stay at home dads?

I agree erin. ill will be equal to a man when i grow a penis....and my fiance will be equal to me when he grows tits and can birth our young!

obviously the author has never been around children long enough to realize how much work they are or how fun it is to clean the same thing 6 times in one day!

what if a woman's biggest and most treasured accomplishment is becoming a mother and wife?

After perusing the titles of the rest of this girl's blogs, it seems that she's very anti-marriage, anti-mothering. Which is fine. I prefer this young woman both never get married and most likely contribute to the already high divorce rate, and also not procreate as to add to the entitled, bratty, selfish population such as herself.

You can't see the value in sharing your life with someone else when your #1 priority is yourself.

I get not wanting to have kids or get married. What I don't get is judging those who do. I will never understand why so many people care about what others choose to do with their lives. Like, did nobody else's mothers ever teach them to "worry about yourself" ? Good grief.

Oh my gosh AndreaLily, I didn't realize you were posting the article and I thought that was you stating your opinion (because Im not able to read it at work either). Holy!!! LOL

She is not indicative of any sort of feminism that I ascribe to. How thoughtless to post something like that. How does that serve women? How does that open up opportunities inside and outside of the home? How dare she belittle someone else's human experience? I thoroughly expect to have (naturally, adoptive, in some form or another) children, be married as all get out, write books, travel the world...and as for the kiddos? Pack em up and take em with us.

I'm having my cake and eating all the crumbs. She can go kick rocks.

For me this blog is typical of a trend that I find annoying and even disturbing. The author has obviously made a choice about how she wants to live her life, which she has every right to do. However, she feels she has to justify her choice by belittling those who have made a different one. I am seeing this more and more. Stay at home moms write blogs or post on Facebook how their lifestyle choice is the only worthwhile one, and how everyone should admire all the sacrifices they are making. Women who work outside the home write how they are doing work that is worthwhile and stay at home moms are ladies of leisure who don't have the brains to get a job. Teachers write how hard they have it and how no one realizes that they work all day, every day for 12 months a year. The other day I read a Facebook post from the wife of a policeman, talking about the hardships she has to endure. I could go on and on. I am not putting down any of these lives. I am a teacher and I do work hard.

Continued We should all be proud of what we choose to do with our lives, but not at the cost of putting someone else down. The right to choose should be given to everyone (although sometimes life does get in the way of that). The right to belittle someone else's choice to boost our own egos should never be on option.

Thank you, Donna!! I agree-- the "op-ed" genre has gotten totally out of hand thanks to the internet.

Generally when women say that having a husband/boyfriend/significant other is stupid and pointless, it's because they cannot get one.

I haven't read it, but based on the comments...Why can't I be successful as a young wife and mother AND in my career and money? I'm 25, my wedding is in 4 months, and I plan to have my first child in 3-4 years. I also am an engineer making good money and working up the ladder. Women can have more than one success at once. If I wanted to be a stay at home mom (which I don't, but that's a personal choice), why is that unsuccessful?

That kind of made me laugh.

I think that everyone has different priorities. I used to be the career girl who stayed at work really late and worked weekends and holidays...but then I met my fiance and we started planning a wedding and all our hopes and dreams for our future children...and then my priorities shifted to things like that instead.

I don't think anyone is wrong for choosing a career as a priority and I don't think I (or anyone else) is wrong for choosing to be a parent. We all want different things.

I can say for sure that there was nothing my mother had easy in raising my brother or me. My mum would be up at all hours making sure she'd prepared enough freshly cooked meals for me to bring to school because my nutrition and health was a priority. She tutored me in everything I needed. She cared for my dad and waited up all night if any of us had any all-nighters to pull (my own fault)...I'm not sure I'll be able to do that as well as she did.

I'd much rather raise my own kids then a day care teacher while I do a "real job". Other than that, FH and I will be in Tahiti while she's pouting at her computer in bum-fuck-nowheresville

I didn't have to read it. Honestly, I don't see why I need to up her visitor count so that she can continue to increase her revenue with the AD's she likely has on her webpage. Now she has millions of visitors and she'll continue writing things that will stir the pot and get more and more money from her simple little blog.

Damn. Maybe I should stop posting on here and start writing angry memo's online.

She gives feminists a bad rap.

I've got an education and traveled the world and now I'm a mom and soon to be wife.

Apples and oranges.