Brett Cooper

to the article is because based on this post alone, it would be completely reasonable to assume, and I certainly did assume, that this article was about vapid women who just wanted to do Pilates and get drunk at brunch and travel, go find themselves instead of spending time with their kids or instead of having kids.

women who, like most of the, you know, child-free subreddit, to talk about another subreddit, gleefully talk about how the only thing they care about is being selfish and they have a disinterest and commitment and responsibility.

That is what I was expecting based on this tweet.

And so understandably, without even clicking on the article, people were quick to leave their normal comments about how feminism has ruined women and women have been lied to and these women are so ridiculous and dumb and they don't understand the fulfillment and the empowerment that motherhood brings.

You know, they shouldn't be climbing a corporate ladder.

All of the normal comments that I agree with, completely agree,

But those are the comments that were under this post.

And again, all of that is fair because those are the stories that we see coming out of the mainstream media more often than not.

But this article, once we actually got into it, wasn't really about those kinds of women.

And the issues that these women were facing, these three mothers that make up this article, the issues they are facing are anything but superficial.

And so the New York Magazine making that post, actually putting words in these mothers' mouths saying, I regret motherhood, making that the title, I actually think they did a massive disservice to those mothers who were being vulnerable and honest, and they did a massive disservice to culture at large.

Because honestly, the article was more about marrying the wrong person and a lack of modern day villages for mothers.

I just want you to listen to a couple of these excerpts.

So to break down how this article is laid out, the interviewer talks to three different moms, and she essentially summarizes their stories.

And so I just want to take you through a few different pieces of each of these mom stories.

So mom one, the author writes, her first year of life, talking about the baby, she was colicky and cried all of the time.

You couldn't put her down.

We had a babysitter quit and tell us, I can't do this anymore.

I also had postpartum depression.

Early on, I told my doctor about it.