A 35-year-old woman, librarian and blogger, recently posted a tweet in which she asks a question: “Mothers: we take your picture, you?
".
A question after finding that she appeared very little in the photos, alongside her husband and / or her two children.
“Of the 450 photos that I sorted, my husband appears twice as much as me alongside our children,” explained Laura Vallet to
Le Monde
.
This caused this mother of a 9-year-old boy and a 6-year-old girl a "deep annoyance".
Mothers: do we take a picture of you?
— Album Girl (@FilledAlbum) January 3, 2022
For Illana Weizman, sociologist and author of
This is my postpartum
, this is again a fine illustration of the mental burden borne by women: "It contributes to the burden that falls on mothers in just about every areas of parenthood, emotions, memories.
»
“We believe that it was the dad who bathed my daughter every day”
An opinion shared by Claudine Veuillet-Combier and Emmanuel Gratton, psychologists and researchers at the University of Angers and authors of
Photographs of contemporary families, cross-perspectives between sociology and psychoanalysis
.
The first explained on
France Inter
: “We observe that it is often the women who manage the family heritage, who take the photos, classify them, comment on them and share them.
»
On Twitter, more than 400 Internet users commented on Laura's post.
And many women admit to regretting their invisibilization.
“On my side, with the photos, we believe that it was the dad who bathed my daughter every day”, recognizes one of them, adding that she captured, on the contrary, rare moments.
For some, this tweet made them realize that they had no pictures of everyday life or alone with their children.
Finally, some noted that they were forced to beg or to force their companion to take their picture, removing any spontaneity.
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