Meri Perra blogs about the challenges she and her partner face in trying to raise their girls with feminist values
I’ll admit we’ve let some things slide since becoming parents of two. Almost immediately following the birth of our beloved Lileith, we began using disposable diapers (and usually not the chlorine-free kind), paper towels, and worse, Lysol wipes. We frequent multinationals with parking lots much more often than our local merchants. Protests happen we don’t even know about.
And it’s all in the name of convenience, followed by the always popular, “we don’t have enough time; we’ve got little kids” excuse.
When we’ve let so much slide already, I’ve wondered where it will stop. Will we start to believe in tax cuts before national childcare? Gravy train cuts over public services? Never. Some values are so fundamental even convenience and disorganization can’t defeat them. I hope.
