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By All Means Love Yourself, But It Won’t Fix Anything.

By MHeket on 27 June, 2016 autonomy, balancing partnerships, beauty, capitalism, challenging perceptions, critical thinking, porn, racism, self care, sociological perspectives, stop blaming women, unrealistic expectations, women's rights Feminism, Feminist Thought

Love yourself. It will solve all your problems …. or will it. How on earth will loving yourself make other people treat you well? What utter nonsense is this!? Don’t be fooled, just be angry!

The Secret To Good Birth Support For Dads, And Families

By MHeket on 9 June, 2016 autonomy, balancing partnerships, birth practices, men, mothers, support, unrealistic expectations Birth, Men at Birth

A good read for fathers or families who are worried about the choices their partner, sister, daughter, or friend is looking into for her upcoming birth. Rest assured, you’re not the first to worry.

Should I Compromise On My Birth Wishes?

By MHeket on 27 March, 2016 autonomy, balancing partnerships, birth practices, challenging perceptions, critical thinking, entitlement, equality, health, maternity system, men, mothers, obstetrics, women's rights Birth, Homebirth

Should you compromise on your birth plan to help other people stay in their comfort zone? What if compromise, takes you well out of your own comfort zone? Women should not have to compromise on birth.

Emotional Care – Not Just A Woman’s Job

By MHeket on 14 March, 2016 balancing partnerships, compassion, feminism, men Matters of the Heart, Relationships

Why do so many adult men expect to maintain a relationship without any emotional input whatsoever? Why do they think that relationships should function without any emotional substance?

Eternally Grateful For Motherhood AND Able To Complain

By MHeket on 14 March, 2016 attachment parenting, babies, balancing partnerships, challenging perceptions, compassion, critical thinking, housework, mothers, unrealistic expectations Children, Mothering

Mothers are grateful for their children, but they need to just complain sometimes. We can’t expect them to bottle everything up all the time! That’s unhealthy and could lead to depression or worse.

Respect your man or respect the obstetric patriarchy?

By Lizzie Carroll on 13 March, 2016 autonomy, balancing partnerships, birth practices, caesareans, challenging perceptions, maternity system, men, obstetrics, women's rights Birth, Homebirth

When suggesting a woman respect her husband’s wishes for birth are you really asking her to respect him? Or are you actually asking her to respect the obstetric patriarchy?

Public Breastfeeding and Men

By Tony Whitman on 27 January, 2016 attachment parenting, babies, balancing partnerships, men, mothers, sociological perspectives, stop blaming women, women's rights Breastfeeding, Mothering

The controversy of breastfeeding in public seems to keep on keeping on, but is it really controversial, or are people just making up a whole lot of nonsense. One Dad explores the topic.

The Disease of the Entitled Man

By Catherine Bell on 27 January, 2016 balancing partnerships, challenging perceptions, entitlement, men Feminism, Social Analysis

Male entitlement is like a disease festering in the minds of men, invisible to them and to the masses. It’s about time we exposed it for what it is and set the record straight on excessive privilege.

7 Tips for Tactful Intactivism

By MHeket on 30 December, 2015 attachment parenting, babies, balancing partnerships, birth practices, challenging perceptions, compassion, feminism, health, intactivism, medical intervention, men, stop blaming women, whole baby Children's Health, Mothering

Here are 7 tips on fighting for babies without turning people against you!

CBAC – You Can Not Fail at VBAC

By MHeket on 10 December, 2015 balancing partnerships, caesareans, challenging perceptions, feminism, maternity system, medical intervention, men, obstetrics, VBAC Birth, VBAC

If you’ve had a CBAC you might feel like a horrible failure, but women do not fail birth. Care providers, on the other hand, frequently fail to support VBAC and sometimes birth partners do too.