Episode 32: The Cost of College & Biden's Student Loan Forgiveness Plan with Charlie Eaton PhD & Leighton Woodhouse; Andrew Tate & Online Censorship; Maternal Instinct a Myth??
The Prevailing Narrative with Matt Bilinsky
Is There a Maternal Instinct?
The notion that the selflessness and tenderness babies require is uniquely ingrained in the biology of women is a relatively modern and pernicious one. It was constructed over decades by men selling an image of what a mother should be, diverting our attention from what she actually is in calling it science. Just because there are exceptions, just because not all women are just in rapturous joy of becoming mothers, or wont to become mothers, does not then negate the notion of a maternal instinct in and of itself. But this is actually the argument that this chelsea person puts forward. I'm fascinated to see what she thinks about the rest of the civilized world and the parental and maternity support that
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