|
|
Forums:
Community:
The Ladies' Room:
Re: [lena_chita] Climbing and being a mom:
Edit Log
|
|
camhead
Feb 1, 2009, 4:49 PM
Views: 20076
Registered: Sep 10, 2001
Posts: 20939
|
This is an interesting topic; I agree that there are definitely the cultural assumptions that Lena mentioned about.
To add another climbing example, does anyone remember the respective deaths of Alex Lowe and Alison Hargreaves? Both died in the Himalaya in the mid-late 1990s, both had young children. However, there was a pretty harsh backlash against Hargreaves after her death for "leaving" a child without a mother, much more than any criticism of Lowe for doing leaving his kids fatherless.
I would expect that this double standard would be even more pronounced if, say, a female with a 10-year old started free soloing like Michael Reardon did. I guarantee that such a hypothetical mother would be completely shunned by the entire community, she would not get the sponsorships that Reardon did, and if she was to meet Reardon's end, her ENTIRE legacy would be negative.
(This post was edited by camhead on Feb 1, 2009, 4:52 PM)
|
|
|
Edit Log:
|
|
Post edited by camhead
() on Feb 1, 2009, 4:52 PM
|
|
|
|
|
|
