Rhian,whether I had the opportunity or not is irrelevant: women who choose to have babies rather than working also have the opportunity to make a different choice that would yield them a higher super balance.

Houellebecq:"The constant message we're fed is how bad women have it, and how it's all mens fault, how men need to do better, and how women are victims in any gender conflict. So this needs some evening out"

You might be surprised to know that Eva Cox agrees with you.

In response to the Jennifer Wilson (Briar Rose)/MTR foofaraw she wrote an article for New Matilda, in which she said:

"It is not feminist to infantilise women by removing our right to make the wrong choices.

We need to recognise that all genders have similar capacities to make good and bad choices and need similar conditions in which to make them. While I am no fan of sexploitation, of objectifying and commodifying human beings, I do not see tactics of censorship and banning of particular manifestations as useful. Emphasising women as victims also contributes to gender-based biases in political thinking. "

http://newmatilda.com/2012/01/18/call-me-whatever

She seems to be shifting her position quite a lot in recent times. I've been looking at some of her stuff and I'm considerably impressed compared to her earlier rigid ideological stance. she may even be leading the next wave of equality-feminism that has to eventually supercede the entitlement model.

Antiseptic
You won’t get much disagreement from me either – and I don’t often agree with Eva Cox. A culture of victimhood, blame, denial of responsibility and demonization is unhealthy and unproductive, whoever we cast in the roles of victims and perpetrators