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[–][deleted] 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Motherhood sucks. The only people who should consider partaking are women with large amounts of f— you money.

[–]Realwoman 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Many women want to have children. Please don't diminish us. Also, many women are desperate to have children, that's why infertility hurts them so much

[–]msteacherlady 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

This is one of the things that has bugged me about radfem spaces - and I'm not well read enough to know if antinatalism is a major philosophical standpoint of radical feminism. I'm a mom, a mother of a boy. Some really weird shit has been said to me about these aspects of my life on gender critical forums, though they don't seem to be popular opinions at least. However, the low key vibe seems to be against biological motherhood by choice.

I'm really shocked by the "fuck you money" comment above because I have a former colleague who quit when she came into fuck you money (her words) and after a few years of medical intervention, finally has given birth to her baby. I mean, though our values are quite different I don't really have major beef with her, but I've been teaching the children of "fuck you money" for several years now, and I don't think they are necessarily better off. The kids just sell and do different drugs than the low income kids I used to teach, get into fatal car wrecks in more expensive vehicles, and there's a dramatic suicide in our district almost every damn year.

[–]Realwoman 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Well said