Regretting motherhood

 I am reading Regretting motherhood.



Very logically, it describes the role of "mothers" in the world.


It is not a beautiful, skeletonized story of motherhood, but the cry of the souls of real mothers.



I believe that people always encompass conflicting aspects.



Because I want to lose weight, but I also want to eat good food.


I have a great boyfriend, but I also care about that girl.



If everything could be moved away from emotion like a computer program, there would be no dramas, plays, operas, or music in the world.



We wouldn't have to worry about them, and we could just go straight down the right path.



He explains the contradiction that those logics can be applied to various things, but they cannot be applied to "motherhood.




I love my children, but there must absolutely be some identity, time, and possibility of self that I have lost because of having them.



Saying that children are cute or important must inherently be separated from that issue.


This is why, as soon as a woman becomes a mother, she is expected to play the role of mother perfectly.




The world and society push and demand that she be a beautiful mother, even though her upbringing, family formation, and husband are all different.




Before that, just because you are unmarried or have not become a mother, the public is very critical of you.



Since it is felt even in Japan, women may not be treated as human beings in countries where the status of women is even lower.



This exposes the aspect that women are already treated as pawns of society at that point.



In Japan, the pill, which is prescribed for women who suffer from painful menstruation, is not covered by insurance. (It is covered by insurance if it is for the treatment of a disease, but not for PMS, etc.)



That's even though the male energy pill is covered by insurance.



I am dismayed that energetic pills are more important to women who have lower monthly incomes than men, even though they have a harder time each month.



The after-pill has finally been approved, but it costs 100,000 yen each.


Is that a price you can afford in an emergency? It is not a price that a young woman can easily afford.



When did the men in power in Japan start to use the common sense of the times?



The society is one where women cannot say "yes" or "no," and there is a pervasive atmosphere of invisibility, but if we don't speak up, we will be more and more buried, invisible, ignorant, and deprived of our freedom.




I want everyone to talk more about their own sense of discomfort, which I say is strange.



I am not trying to disparage men.



I just want to say that we need to listen a little more.


We can't all be schemers like Marilyn Monroe.


Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

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