I found this article really interesting, because my experience (admittedly, in the Midwest), is that any woman who *isn’t* a mom is a no-status, worthless piece of cat-excrement, regardless of education, job title, professional achievements, etc. Any conversation with a new co-worker or neighbor ends immediately after I admit I have no children (too ugly to get married, too stupid to get knocked up out of wedlock). I could freaking cure cancer, and the obit in my hometown paper would read “Heather wasted her entire life doing absolutely nothing, and is survived by nephews and nieces.”
So I’m totally baffled by both the letter-writer, and Professor McKenna insisting mothers get no respect. Maybe y’all just need to move out of your “cosmopolitan” cities and to somewhere where you’re worshipped, just like I had to move to a city so I wouldn’t be ostracized completely.
