Thread by @GoingMedieval

I find it really interesting how still, even now, women are consistently told that the only thing that is important about us is our child bearing capacity. I mean this is simply true of the younger generation that cannot afford to have kids now anyway, but it is leveled at women.

https://twitter.com/lottelydia/status/1447147436774940681

*Sees a bright eyed fresher at Cambridge* You're going to end up a barren old crone. You know that???

It is this biological essentialism that feminism needs to work against in a number of ways. First we need to decouple the idea of womanhood from reproductive capacity. Second we need to create a world that actually supports parents when they do have children.

We need affordable childcare. We need good parental leave. We need a society which is not currently telling us that we are aiding terrorists if we work from home. What we do not need is to threaten eighteen year olds.

Anyway shout out to every fresher girl who like me would hear this line, shrug, and say "Who care?"
Get your reading done this week kids, and then have fun at the pub. xxx