But the basic tenets of rape culture also run through our cultural expectations of mothers, something I began to see more clearly just after #MeToo. Middle-class, bourgeois standards of parenting have created exponential anxieties for mothers. Today, women who become parents are expected to study and perform ideal motherhood at the cost of all else by consuming online parenting content to meet their children’s needs with monkish detachment, and though they are often encouraged to take baths or hide in the shower if they need a break, the message is well received that women should expect to
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