{"id":608,"date":"2007-10-25T08:11:46","date_gmt":"2007-10-25T16:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=608"},"modified":"2007-10-25T08:11:46","modified_gmt":"2007-10-25T16:11:46","slug":"a-question-for-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=608","title":{"rendered":"A Question for Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.com\/print\/59312\/full\">an article<\/a> today whose point seems to be that (a) having children is becoming increasingly popular with the glitterati, and (b) it&#8217;s a shameful thing to promote having children, or even that having children can be a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>Sinister motives are implied:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In her new book, <i>The Terror Dream<\/i>, the feminist Susan Faludi (also without child) argues that the procreation push is part of a creepy post-9\/11 gender narrative, an extension of the ongoing, nationalist effort to promote hearth, home, and female fragility: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153a concerted effort to promote this \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 idea that women would and should reproduce as a way of consoling the nation,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as she put it to <i>The Observer<\/i>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Consoling the nation&#8221;?  Isn&#8217;t it more like &#8220;maintaining the continuing existence of the nation&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Of course, being a man, what do I know?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read an article today whose point seems to be that (a) having children is becoming increasingly popular with the glitterati, and (b) it&#8217;s a shameful thing to promote having children, or even that having children can be a good thing. Sinister motives are implied: In her new book, The Terror Dream, the feminist Susan Faludi &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=608\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Question for Women&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}