Rebecca Walker echoes a feeling I’ve had for a long time about many radical feminists. Most of them, like Alice Walker, are selfish jerks who are only interested in their own careers. Furthermore they’re contemptible hypocrites who espouse Marxism while living the capitalist highlife. A plague on all of them.
Hypocrisy is the operating word. Her mother for all her pretense is an egotistical tinpot dictator. Her so called views are nothing but cover for her bastard selfishness.
Everyone read the whole article, it’s awesome. You practically fall in love with the woman just hearing her story. It’s amazing how the radical types often breed kids who go the exact opposite direction after seeing the consequences.
I agree with you but I also wonder whether her lack of maternal behavior is a signal she was seriously conflicted or afraid of being conflicted. The maternal, nurturing part of women is, dare I say it?, instinctive. To reject that part of their makeup requires a lot of effort. I think she was so invested with her misogynistic attitudes that she was literally afraid to be a mother who might betray her own screeds. I’m sorry for the experiences of Rebecca but I am also sorry for Alice because I suspect in her heart of hearts she is really miserable but would never admit to it.
Reminds me of family friends in Germany. The couple, both of whom are only children, opted not to have children. They worked, played and got comfortably wealthy. Now, as they head into the twilight of their lives (they are in their sixties now) and their own parents have passed on and mortality knocks at the door, they regret that they had no children. The wife was never a feminist, per se. She did work professionally all her life, carrying on the family mortuary business and said she was too busy for children and, besides, Germany was notoriously family-unfriendly. Too many people have bought into the notion that children are an albatross around their necks.