Jessie Stephens has an unpopular opinion about mothers…she’s sick of women who start every argument with ‘As a mother…'”
Do you find it alienating or patronising? Or do you agree with Mia and Holly that mums really do think differently about things?
Plus, we finally discuss Hannah Gadsby’s Netflix special ‘Nanette’.
And is Melania Trump clueless or careless? Yep, we have to talk about jacketgate.
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Hosts: Holly Wainwright, Jessie Stephens and Mia Freedman
Producer: Elissa Ratliff
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Top Comments
A journalist recently described on the radio about seeing a child of just under 2 years old separated from her parents in the recent migrant detentions and family separations occurring in the US. She described how the child was sitting on the floor extremely distressed, crying, screaming, banging her fists repeatedly on the floor and that no one was able to console her, and no one was allowed to even pick the child up and hold her either. A totally disgusting situation.
I am saying 'as a NON-mother' I damn well can imagine, and understand the extreme distress, hurt, trauma, anger, and desolation that that child must be going through. I don't need to be a mother to get that. And if any mother wants to say that only they 'as a mother' could fully understand that, well they must have some kind of deficit if they don't have that capability unless and until they became a mother.
And just because you are a mother doesn't even mean that you know or understand everything you think you do.
I'm still very much the same woman I was before I had a child, it's just that my lifestyle has changed, but I haven't 'changed'.