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Sad White Babies With Mean Feminist Mommies

The Atlantic is reviving the tired feminist-baiting question “can women have it all.” Le sigh. In celebration of this backlashtastic event, I’ve compiled some of my favorite images that are often the art in these kinds of articles: The mean/frazzled/distracted working white mom (because WOC don’t exist in this narrative) who has been fooled into thinking she can have it all by feminism. Good times.

Note: I haven’t read the piece (it’s not out yet) and for all I know is a scorchingly awesome piece of feminist writing. But the headline/art/cover is just too awful and (knowingly) plays into the anti-feminist trope cliche the search for work/life balance is greedily trying to have “it all.”

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    Sad White Babies With Mean Feminist Mommies The Atlantic is reviving the tired feminist-baiting question “can women have...
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  3. simenstad reblogged this from jessicavalenti and added:
    Thanks to Sheryl Sandberg’s book, Lean In, for leading me to this - too funny
  4. liamandgriffin reblogged this from jessicavalenti and added:
    Love this!
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    Thanks to Sheryl Sandberg’s “Lean In” I am now aware of this post and feel the need to share it!
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    so old but still so good
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    Sad White Babies With Mean Feminist Mommies The mean/frazzled/distracted working mom who has been fooled into thinking...
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  16. nihbster reblogged this from jessicavalenti and added:
    and the go read “Lean in”!
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    This post was mentioned in the book I’m reading, Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg, so my first instinct was to reblog it
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    I am so, so tired of hearing working mothers blamed for basically everything. I live in a regional town in Queensland...
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