You don’t need to be a mother, Kim Cattrall. You don’t even need to motherly. It’s 2015, and it’s high time we women weren’t judged exclusively in terms of how maternal we are.
Speaking with BBC Radio Four’s Woman’s Hour Takeover this week, the 59 year-old “Sex and the City” star said she wanted to discuss her choice not to have children, and the conversation around women who choose likewise. “It’s the lessthat is offensive, isn’t it?” she asked. “Child-less. It sounds like you’re less, because you haven’t had a child.” She talked about her own experience, and about eventually deciding in her forties that “I don’t know if I want it that much.” And she went on to consider the ways we view women like her. “I’m so glad that I’m not in a political job, because I would be judged even more harshly. It would be, if I had children, could I do the job efficiently? And if I didn’t have children, I was a selfish b___h.”