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Feminist Broodings as Mother's Day Approaches

How come it is that all the most progressive and stand-up women I know still have to go out in the rain to buy cards to send to their mothers in law? After how many decades of working on equal rights and making progress for women in the workplace and equal sharing in home duties, we still end up guilt-tripped into buying the cards and flowers for our husband's mother.

Because.

We know

That if we don't

She won't get anything

For Mother's Day.

And nobody should have that

Even if we don't like her very much.

The pink camellias are courtesy of http://images.mooseyscountrygarden.com/

Full post as published by Out of the Jungle on May 05, 2009 (boomark / email).