Universal Childcare call to arms! -Mod Approved

[freckledwilding]

@ronniev That's why I left that sub. The toxicity was too high for me. It was supposed to be a support sub for all working moms, but instead they chose to gatekeep what counts as a working mom as if every woman works the same kind of job with no variation.

 

[ronniev]

@freckledwilding Exactly. It’s so fucked up.

 

[brendawwentz]

@ronniev Totally understand your feelings there. We aren't just people from that sub, we're also people that do wfh and caretake at the same time. That sub is just where the initial call to arms came from.

 

[ronniev]

@brendawwentz Thanks for saying that, clearly that sub has excluded enough people that they are wary of anything that comes from it.

I’ve joined the new sub, thanks for coordinating!

 

[joaa]

@ronniev What?? That's utterly insane.

 

[edwinoel]

@joaa During the past year, the sub was inundated with posts about how to "work from home and not hire childcare for children who are not old enough to go to school." Eventually, the members and moderators got tired of the same posts and discussion.
Most of the discussions boiled down to:

"workplaces expect childcare. Trying to work full time without it, is unfair to your child and unfair to your coworkers, because (as many experienced first hand in the pandemic) you can't do both."

There were some who broke off so they could have discussions of how to work from home without childcare.