Would you rather be expected to work, like men, or experience pregnancy & birth & perform unpaid labor?

then yes, thanks to feminism women in developed countries are now allowed obligated to have the same education and career opportunities as men are

Fixed. This seems to be mistixs' problem. What begins as an opt-in system has a tendency to turn into an opt-out system, and then even into a very-difficult-to-opt-out opt-out system. She doesn't seem to have qualms with women's expanded options concerning life paths, but with the fact that what's sometimes sugarcoated as choices and options by now effectively stands for a second layer of obligations and expectations. And the problem is in the "second" part, since the first, primary layer, isn't interchangeable between the sexes if the couple chooses to have biological children. A part of it uniquely depends on women's biological investment into progeny, with all of the attendant consequences and further choices that will more naturally flow from it.

Hers actually isn't a fringe, maybe not even a minority view. Quite a few women seem to think that it was a bad bargain to tacitly let this double-role-expectation get generalized in society - enough of them so that in the most affluent societies you can see increased numbers of those who aspire to take upon themselves only the first set of expectations, or some combination of family and part-time work that balances the load more evenly. Sometimes this isn't possible, especially in the current economy, but it's telling that it's the new ideal for so many young women.

Many of our mothers' generation got screwed over with "equality". They ended up doing everything that men did (same types of full time jobs etc.) plus suffering all of the physical toll of birthing the children plus being much more involved with childcare and household duties plus facing any remants of sexed social/familial duties (care of relatives etc.). Mistixs wouldn't be crazy if she saw something like that around her and thought it wasn't a very fair deal.

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