The Dark Side of Motherhood

The Dark Side of Motherhood

In this episode Suzy Weiss sits down with journalist Amy Chozick, who has spent her career covering some of America’s most polarizing women—from Hillary Clinton and Stormy Daniels to Elizabeth Holmes and Lauren Sánchez Bezos.They explore what these wildly different women have in common, why they’re judged so harshly, and what the public gets wrong about them. Then they turn to Chozick’s new novel, With Friends Like You, and the growing wave of b…

The Cultural Lie That Turned Motherhood Into A Burden

When I talk publicly about how raising my baby is beautiful, not oppressive, feminists get mad. We never said that! they claim. To that I can only ask, Have you read second-wave feminist literature? Second-wave feminists did, in fact, call motherhood oppressive. And ever since the ’60s, the media’s advertising for the role hasn’t been particularly good. Culture followed the feminists’ lead by portraying motherhood in an unfavorable light — both …