I wanted to write a full post about this.
About the supposed Mommy Wars.
About how completely I do not buy into this adversarial narrative that is constantly shoved down my throat.
About how most attachment parents I know are not competitive or sanctimonious at all and how we’re all parents and should focus on sharing and supporting each other.
About how shifting the focus onto mommy vs. mommy is simply a distraction from the fact that motherhood is still a liability in western culture because patriarchy.
But then I read this. (Trigger warning: discussion of mental illness, bipolar disorder and suicide.)
And I realised that my personal discomfort with the ‘class warfare’ and bourgeois mother goddesses, is nothing compared the the mothers who struggle every day to be a good parent.
Please, read the post. It’s heartbreaking, inspiring and beautiful.
I need to go cry now.
Poly Momma 
Oh my gosh – thank you. You sweet sweet human. Xoxoxo
Seriously, I had started drafting a post and everything, then I read yours and I was floored at how beautiful and eloquent and honest you were.
For once, I’m speechless. Thank you.
That was beautiful.
The Time magazine article infuriated me…because so many people I know were incensed about it. “How dare they show a woman [gasp] breastfeeding a preschool child on the cover of a magazine that is in the check-out line at the grocery store where my children can see it!”
I tried to bite back my fury as I mentioned that they sure don’t complain about all the busty cleavage sexually-posed women ALWAYS decorating the covers of the magazines at the check-out line…because we are so inundated with the idea that women are sexual objects that we don’t even notice it. Their children are seeing THAT all the time…!
Most of them drew back in surprise. They hadn’t thought of that…
Frustrating.
Anyways, hello from a poly momma. Just found your blog and am enjoying perusing through it.