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[moominmolly]

The Momification of Michelle Obama. An article worth reading just on its own merits, regarding her curiously retro position given her qualifications... but really, I'm mostly posting this so that I can type the word "momification" a few more times.

MOMIFICATION.

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[kcatalyst.livejournal.com]

Wow, that was hard to read. My mom was really angry with her speech at the convention, for basically this issue. I've been having a lot of trouble dealing with that and have been puzzled as to why. Realized while reading this that I deeply need Michelle's choice to become a momified first lady to be "ok" in some abstract feminist way, since it's so similar to the choice that trom has made for me. I'm not sure what to do with the realization now that I have it, though. Besides focus on not crying at work. (Yes, still at work, I'll be home late again tonight. And I don't even have a country to save.)

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

I'm still thinking about this comment and I don't have a lot to add to it still and I'm sorry. I'd just been thinking, hm, this is interesting: I need for her choice to be okay, but I also need for it to have been a choice, and because of the curious position of her husband it wasn't clear to me that it really was as much as it would be for other women, and I found that interesting. Ultimately, though, my feelings about the whole thing are so unresolved that I posted it without real comment. I'm sorry that me doing that stirred up some really rough things for you. :/