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[–]RedditHatesLesbians[S] 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I also don't want children and that's a big reason why. I'm a lesbian so it'll never happen accidentally, but I would never use a sperm donor or adopt or anything like that regardless.

I wonder if lesbians and gay men are the exceptions, in a way? While, sure, some lesbians want biological children, I think that's a small minority

I find it weird how humans have evolved in such a way that pregnancy is so traumatic for women. You watch the labour of other animals and the kids just pop out and begin running 3 minutes later. With humans, our heads are too big and our hips are too narrow. I think people forget just how many women died during childbirth nowadays with modern medicine. Biology is definitely not something to be dismissed. Men needed to be the aggressors when we had to be in such a vulnerable state just to procreate and when our children take such a long time to be self sufficient to any degree. Taken away from our natural environment, those roles play out in different ways. The question then becomes what would a perfect society look like? Equal in every way isn't realistic since we seem innately different in many ways. Men will always be much stronger than women, and men will always seek to dominate. So is equality even possible?

It's interesting how males are seen as the default sex even though women are the ones to procreate, though. Women are the ones with the ability to replicate ourselves, we all start out as female in the womb. Yet women are seen as imperfect men, an idea both in the Bible and in culture as a whole.

[–]MarkTwainiac 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Wow, you sure do know a lot for someone 16! I don't mean that to sound ageist - after all, 16 is an age of peak intellectual and academic performance and curiosity generally, & there are a lot of knowledgable, learned teenagers today as there were in the past. Still, your comments have struck me as particularly impressive in their breadth and incisiveness. So I jus wanted to say: Brava!

[–]RedditHatesLesbians[S] 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thanks. I don't think it's ageist at all. Most people are idiots let alone most teenagers, I think it's just a lack of experience/perspective thing. And I'm not exempt from that, I just ask a lot of questions. The more questions I ask the less I realise I know about the world.