I know among some areas of feminism there is a suspicion about crunchy mothers, and I see where that comes from, but blogs like Jessica Montalino’s are proof that crunchy mothers are also very often feminist mothers. Fabulously feminist, in fact. Jessica, who has an adorable baby son (actually the entire family is cute as a button) has tackled my 10 Questions About Your Feminist Motherhood and I really enjoyed reading her response.
And that question about how straight feminist mothers are managing their approach to parenthood with their male partners is always a fascinating one, isn’t it?
If you have a partner, how does your partner feel about your feminist motherhood? What is the impact of your feminism on your partner?
It took Ron and I some time to get on the same page about gender roles and feminism and what exactly it meant to me and how it has shaped my identity. We had lots of open and honest conversations about feminism early in our relationship. I think our open and honest policy we have with each other helped when we found out we were going to be parents and talked about the ways we want Ollie to be raised, especially because he is a white male. I do think that Ron is as pro-feminist guy as you can get.
You can find all the many other responses in this series here. If you’d like to respond to these questions yourself you can either email me your answers and I’ll put them on blue milk as a guest post or you can post them elsewhere and let me know and I’ll link to them.
Excellent responses.
That being said, I’m not leaving a comment for her, but for you, bluemilk — the link to the other responses in the series is broken, and leads to a cute 404 page. Thought you’d like to know.