<p>When I talk about “supporting” each other’s choices, it is a simple acknowledgement that, and for me there is no way to completely divorce this from political discourse, there simply isn’t, that, as a culture we are still figuring it out. When my grandmother was born it was the year women recieved the vote. She always told me, “I’ve been able to vote my whole life.” She didn’t take this for granted the way my kids do.</p>
<p>So, I say, everyone needs to make their own choices, and we all need to support this. Of course, as Alh points out, the fact is most women don’t have choices. I don’t believe that there’s a lot being written these days about men and their “choices,” though I know there has been some research and inquiry, lately, into the way their lives have been changed over the course of the last 40 years. However, I do not think that my supporting a woman’s choice to stay home with her family or to go to work or something inbetween is not political and global.</p>
<p>For women, like it or not, we are still figuring it out. And, between us, we are frequently our own most critical enemies.</p>
<p>More importantly, most importantly, the personal is political. There’s no getting away from that even if we attempt to pretend it is not so.</p>