Originally Posted by lurkette

I don't think you have to have a career or even a job to be a "good" feminist - the issue is not that women should work, but that women should be just as free as men to work, if that's what they choose, and men should be just as free as women to stay home, if that's what they choose. There's a difference between staying home because your want to and staying home because you're a woman and "that's just what women do."

It's not an issue of what individuals do, it's an issue of what society trains us to think of as "men's" roles and "women's" roles.