Jill Filipovic, a feminist author, disparaged stay-at-home mothers who are apparently enabling men to be “more sexist” and view women as carers, rather than equal earners.
In a tweet thread, she attempted to pick apart the “carer/earner nuclear family model” that has one parent, traditionally mothers, stay home to care for the child(ren) while the other parent, traditionally fathers, work to provide the household with enough money to stay afloat.
The carer/earner nuclear family model we think of as “traditional” is a historical anomaly that is tremendously isolating and often financially devastating for the carer (almost always a woman). It also reinforces the gendered division of labor, which ripples out to all women.
— Jill Filipovic (@JillFilipovic) April 12, 2022
Oh, and men are sexist and women staying at home are making them that way. Don’t ask for any citations though.
More mothers at home makes for worse, more sexist men who see women as mommies and helpmeets. Men with stay-at-home wives are more sexist than men with working wives; they don’t assess women’s workplace contributions fairy; and they are less likely to hire and promote women.
— Jill Filipovic (@JillFilipovic) April 12, 2022
The solution for all these sexist men and enabling stay-at-home moms? Give men more time off work! Because that won’t have massive economic ramifications or anything. Equality!
A better model is a paid parental leave policy that heavily incentivizes men to take significant time off of work, too — especially in the earliest weeks — so that a child can be cared for at home by its parents for the first year of life. Then universal high-quality childcare.
— Jill Filipovic (@JillFilipovic) April 12, 2022
Also give people money when they have babies. (Cue the angry cries of the child-free cohort.)
Also: Just give people a little extra money when they have babies, and don’t consign people to living in poverty. Several European countries have child payments, and that makes sense.
— Jill Filipovic (@JillFilipovic) April 12, 2022
It didn’t take long for social media to jump on this one: (** Language warning)
As a female with an adv. degree who left the workforce to care for my young children and ill parents, I believe that caring for our most vulnerable—those who will be our future and those who are our past—is vital work. Saying it’s anti-feminist stigmatizes the women who do it.
— J. Taylor Calderone (@TaylorCalderone) April 12, 2022
We have to hold women accountable
— Dialectic Spoutin’ Lips (@edwardblack12) April 13, 2022
It’s interesting how it’s almost always women putting down stay at home moms when they know nothing about what they really do. Exhibit A
— Amanda (@ezy_007) April 13, 2022
Thanks for helping to counter this horribly misinformed and unfortunate thread.
— Captain LatAm ☯︎ (@TweetsJoaquin) April 12, 2022
I mean, you’re just blatantly wrong. Twitter doesn’t allot enough characters to correct this nonsense.
— Rachel Elisa 🇮🇹✝️🖤 (@__bestillnknow) April 12, 2022
If we are restricting women’s choices because they can cause impure thoughts in men, why limit it to careers? Take it to the limits Jill
— daniel krouse (@danielkrouse4) April 13, 2022
You can, but you shouldn’t.
— Witch Hunter (@hexxenjager) April 12, 2022
With a brush that broad, you could paint the side of barn in one stroke
— Doug Matthews (@swampynomo) April 12, 2022
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