08/02/2020
Não sou nada de seguir a vida das celebridades, mas encontrei por acaso este artigo, e fez me tanto sentido. Senti tantas vezes esta realidade na minha própria pele.
Se também te identificas, comenta!
"Obvious as that is, a lack of maternal perfection is not well tolerated. Even outside the celebrity bubble there’s often someone there to tut at a tantrum, suggest we shouldn’t be checking that important work email or tell us our kid is too warm/cold/loud/quiet, too old to breastfeed or too perfect to be given formula.
My work as an activist and writer around women’s rights in pregnancy and birth has made it clear to me that, underneath a kindly raised eyebrow or busy body concern, is a deeply-rooted belief stretching back through history and looping vice-like to the present, that mothers are the greatest threat to their children. Mothers with our faulty bodies, our unhealthy habits, our unacceptable choices in childbirth, our feeding failures and our parenting which is always one step away from neglect."
As Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, discovered, there’s nothing like babywearing to get the mother-shamers all fired up. Read more on Grazia.
