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Remember when Natalie Portman won an Oscar, and in her acceptance speech, thanked her husband, Benjamin Millipied, for giving her “the most important role of her life”? This, of course, made the pro-abortion feminists of the world apoplectic with rage<\/a>. How dare<\/em> she say that being a mother was more important than her acting career?! Women aren’t supposed to make motherhood their number one priority, after all. Education and career are supposed to be first.<\/p>\n

So Adele might want to brace herself. The Grammy-winning singer has made some waves of her own after doing an interview with Vogue, where she said that her son finally gave her a purpose<\/a>…<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhen I met Simon, I knew that something was going to happen,\u201d she remembers. After the world-class losers whose bad behavior became the fodder for some of the most universally powerful songs of our time, Adele had finally found herself a winner. Their son, Angelo, was conceived, she tells me authoritatively, \u201cthe day the last Vogue cover came out!\u201d<\/p>\n

The two new men in Adele\u2019s life transformed it completely. They have eradicated the need for much of the drama that she used to thrive on. \u201cI can\u2019t have any other junk in my head to worry about as well,\u201d she tells me. Angelo, meanwhile, \u201cmakes me very proud of myself. When I became a parent, I felt like I was truly living. I had a purpose, where before I didn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

She added in the interview that her priorities were now being a mom first, then herself, and then her career. Unsurprisingly, Slate blogger Elissa Strauss was bothered by that, and wrote a blog post<\/a> lamenting the idea of a woman publicly saying that motherhood gave her a purpose.<\/p>\n

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This is a bold, potentially controversial, statement for a celebrity mom. Adele, ADELE, didn\u2019t feel like she was truly living before she became a mom?! She, the universally adored force of nature behind, at the time, one of the bestselling albums of all time, felt like she didn\u2019t have a purpose?<\/p>\n

This type of sentiment has backfired for female celebrities before. When Natalie Portman dared to suggest that motherhood might be \u201c\u201cthe most important role of [her] life\u201d in her 2011 Oscar acceptance speech, she received a lot of pushback. \u201cIs reproduction automatically the greatest thing Natalie Portman will do with her life?\u201d asked Salon’s Mary Elizabeth Williams at the time. There\u2019s been similar resistance to calling motherhood \u201cthe most important job in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

… A major goal of feminism has been for women to be able to seek lives and identities that exist outside their traditional roles as mothers and caretakers. The degree that feminism has been successful in this has, without a doubt, been fantastic for women. Still, there remains debate about exactly we are supposed to make of our roles as mothers now that we\u2019ve been (partially) liberated.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Strauss concludes by saying that Adele is allowed to find motherhood fulfilling (Adele will surely be around to thank you for giving her permission to love being a mother anytime now, Elissa), but it was clear that Strauss is troubled by the idea that a spectacularly successful woman would give motherhood, and not her career, such high praise.<\/p>\n

And this is how Slate chose to promote Strauss’ piece: with the words “uh-oh” — how very Cosmopolitan<\/a> of them.<\/p>\n

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Uh oh: Adele tells Vogue motherhood gave her “purpose”: https:\/\/t.co\/JhInnsSbke<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/cbl1IyezwX<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Slate (@Slate) February 17, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s made overwhelmingly clear, over and over again: these abortion advocates, much as they try to pretend to be “pro-choice,” don’t care about women making their own choices at all. What they are is pro-abortion, which is exactly why any time a successful woman speaks about motherhood as a fulfilling role, the pro-abortion extremists get so angry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Remember when Natalie Portman won an Oscar, and in her acceptance speech, thanked her husband, Benjamin Millipied, for giving her “the most important role of her life”? This, of course, made the pro-abortion feminists of the world apoplectic with rage. How dare she say that being a mother was more important than her acting career?! 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