{"id":2857,"date":"2015-01-10T18:42:52","date_gmt":"2015-01-10T18:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/?p=2857"},"modified":"2020-04-03T14:43:32","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T20:43:32","slug":"maybe-its-time-to-rally-women-instead-of-divide-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2015\/01\/10\/maybe-its-time-to-rally-women-instead-of-divide-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Maybe it\u2019s time to rally women instead of divide them"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you ever noticed that our society loves to pit women against each other (especially mothers)? It seems to focus on creating binary realities in which women take one side and judge the women on the other side.<\/p>\n

For example, consider these examples:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
breastfeeding<\/td>\nbottlefeeding<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
assisted\u00a0birth<\/td>\nnatural birth<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
stay-at-home mum<\/td>\nworking mum<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
pro-vaccination<\/td>\nanti-vaccination<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
co-sleeping<\/td>\nseparate sleeping<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
disposable diapers<\/td>\ncloth diapers<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
fat<\/td>\nthin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
public school<\/td>\nhomeschool<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The lists go on.<\/p>\n

I have to wonder why society is like this. Maybe if we keep women fighting against each other they won\u2019t band together and fight against systems that oppress women as a whole.<\/p>\n

Maybe it\u2019s time to change that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Have you ever noticed that our society loves to pit women against each other (especially mothers)? It seems to focus on creating binary realities in which women take one side and judge the women on the other side. For example, consider these examples: breastfeeding bottlefeeding assisted\u00a0birth natural birth stay-at-home mum working mum pro-vaccination anti-vaccination co-sleeping […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[90],"class_list":["post-2857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sexism-and-women-studies","tag-sexism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/siever.ca\/kim\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/01\/mom-and-baby-having-fun.jpg?fit=1920%2C1280&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4NkW7-K5","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":963,"url":"https:\/\/siever.ca\/kim\/2011\/10\/26\/facebook-memes-and-sexism\/","url_meta":{"origin":2857,"position":0},"title":"Facebook memes and sexism","author":"Kim Siever","date":"26 October 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I like to think I have been sensitive to gender equality, violence against women and the like for some time, but I have to say that the women studies course I took this past semester hammered a lot of things home. 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