• Hellsfire29@lemmy.world
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    Nothing wrong with being proud of giving birth to a new life. Also nothing wrong with believing that you’re more than that. It becomes a problem when people start forcing their beliefs on others.

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    God gave you ass holes, so it’s your duty taking shits as much possible. with this mindset

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    God gave human adult males flexible ****ncters the approximate circumference of my **** so there’s proof of what men are for 😘

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    It’s always the people who are most obsessed with us reproducing who also work the hardest to make sure there isn’t any future for our children.

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    17 hours ago

    “The Transformed Wife” is the worst of all the Transformers - must be a Decipticon hell bent on hating all women with brains….

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      Serious question.

      Are u people advocating for humanity just dying off? Why not have kids? That’s normal::: spoiler spoiler

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        Just FYI, my wife has two masters degrees and still was able to get pregnant, give birth and help raise a child with me afterward. So apparently it is possible for women to have advanced university degrees and have kids.

        Incidentally, my mother also has two masters degrees, so apparently that was also possible in the 1970s without the population crashing.

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          Nobody says it’s impossible.
          And my wife has a college degree and has no impetus to work at all.

          Her sister has masters and doesn’t want to work either .
          Riddle me that

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            You seem to think suggesting women get advanced degrees means we also think people shouldn’t have babies.

            Also, you seem to be making some stupid “women don’t want to work” claim which is just nonsense.

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              The only question I have - why advocate childlessness? U people seem to be making claims that if woman has kids - she’s automatically a baby factory and a servant.
              This is mindbiggling

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        I think they’re advocating that women can choose for themselves what kind of person to be, and the fact their bodies are capable of gestating new humans doesn’t obligate them to do so.

        It’s sort of like how the fact a man’s body may be capable of entertaining others by dressing their penis up in a tiny coat and hat doesn’t mean we should bully an entire gender into making that the purpose of their existence, nor does it mean we’re advocating for a world without sharp dressed dicks.

        Let people live their lives based on who they are, not the abilities of their genitals.

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          Noone has to do anything.
          But there seems to be a sustained campaign against having kids.
          Imo This is just fighting against the natural way of life.

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            Noone has to do anything.

            The original tweet essentially said that all women have a mission from God to use their bodies to make babies. At the very least it’s a value judgment on how women live their lives.

            There seems to be a sustained campaign against having kids.

            I have never encountered this. There is absolutely a sustained campaign for bodily autonomy, and for the acceptance of people who choose not to reproduce; but I haven’t encountered anyone talking like the original tweet, saying women have a mission from God to not have kids or something.

            This is just fighting against the natural way of life.

            Here we go again with imposing judgements on people who don’t reproduce. I feel like that’s the bigger ‘sustained campaign’ in this conversation. The natural way of life changes over time, it used to be natural to die young from a bacterial infection, or to have your village sacked by marauders. We don’t need to have the same pressures to keep reproduction high as in the past. Populations are still increasing, but people are out here blaming women for not doing it faster? Just take a breath, it’s going to be okay.

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    Look at your bodies, women! An internal inguinal canal less likely to cause a hernia, lower center of gravity, higher body fat, and less body hair for easier cleanup. God created you for spending long hours in the coal mines!

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        Reductio… is that a Harry Potter spell?

    • Shou@lemmy.world
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      But men’s long ass nosehair makes for natural filters against the dust in the mines! Clearly men are better suited for the mines!

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        But look at how small and dexterous the children are, able to squeeze and clamber through the tunnels. And look at what they play all day: Minecraft. Clearly the children are best suited, as they yearn for the mines.

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    Look at men’s bodies! They have prostates capable of being stimulated to climax. God designed men for the magnificent job of bottoming and what could be more beautiful than a man orgasming while getting railed up the ass?

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    Reminder that just because you don’t have children, doesn’t mean you have to achieve a certain level of career or academia. You’re still valid. I’m still valid…

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      I’ve done my part to make the world a better place by not having kids, and I’m just cruising along.

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      I don’t think “valid” is a proper word for someone’s life. You don’t have to be validated by anyone, you don’t own anyone anything. Do what you yourself see fit for this one-time adventure.

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          You guys have expendable income?

          I can’t complain too much, because I usually end each month with a couple hundred in pocket money, but one of the primary reasons I don’t have kids is cause there’s no way in hell I’m going to afford it. The $200ish a month that I waste on weed and video games are not going to afford diapers and daycare.

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            Yeah, it’s not really that much, but it’s precisely for that reason that I know after paying for my own necessities, I can’t afford mini-mes. And let’s not even get started on the emotional baggage I picked up in childhood that keeps me convinced to this day it’s best to just not perpetuate a negative cycle my family seems stuck in.

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      Reminder that you don’t have to do anything at all in life, and these who day otherwise are wrong.

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        Well, one thing you should do in life is read the text you’ve written and checking for errors.

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        In fact I strive to do as little as possible. I only work to pay the bills. If I could luck upon a comfortable enough nest egg I would quit working immediately and just play games the rest of my life (video & board, solo and with friends/family).

        Hell, I may end up contributing more to society that way since I enjoy dabbling in video game design but don’t have enough time to actually work towards anything I could release. If I had time, maybe I’d actually create something for a wider audience rather than whatever minor contribution I have at work.

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      I always like to remind people that their ancestors survived as fishermen and farmers and peasants, you aren’t a failure if you don’t become the president or the greatest person in your field or whatever.

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      And if you do want children and are fulfilled living a life dedicated to making and raising them, you’re also still valid.

      In fact, that would be an accomplishment, while simply existing isn’t. But this planet got an overpopulation problem, so if all you wanna do is continue simply and unimportantly existing while also not procreating, I’d say, go ahead.

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    No, she has a point. Men have testicles and a penis so perhaps they are simply useless once they have transferred their genetic material to the next generation.

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    It’s always the Devil who tries to convince everyone that he speaks for God.

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      I’d remove the religious implications and say “it’s always those who are most convinced they have a monopoly on Truth who are most dehumanizing to the out-group”

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        I like the way I put it. Way easier to put on a bumper sticker.

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            Believe me, I’m all for using religious imagery when it’s appropriate for getting the point across. However, the whole point of OP’s statement is lost if it’s not made clear that religion itself is the primary source of this evil. Otherwise, “It’s always the Devil who tries to convince everyone that he speaks for God,” could just as easily mean “my god is right and yours is the devil.”

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          Fair point, but using ambiguous religious language to convey the dangers of religion seems a bit open to misinterpretation, imo.

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    According to Wikipedia, “the world population … was estimated by the United Nations to have exceeded eight billion in mid-November 2022. It took around 300,000 years of human prehistory and history for the human population to reach a billion and only 218 years more to reach 8 billion.”

    There are PLENTY of people in the world. Some of them need to get off my lawn. Grrr.

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        They need to learn to convive with others to increase immigration, or fix their system but that’s harder tho

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          Korea isn’t as bad as Japan when it comes to their immigration. But somehow Korea is even worse birth rate than Japan.

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        I think you’ll notice both of those places have very low birth rates these days. Almost like people don’t enjoy being crammed in like sardines and having to compete in the workplace like rats fighting over the last rotting morsels.