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Nevilledog

(51,112 posts)
Thu Mar 28, 2024, 02:40 PM Mar 28

Women do not owe misogynists or society babies.



Misogynists are crying about birthrates. Complaining that women value their own lives, goals, & ambitions as lawmakers in the US make being pregnant even more dangerous with abortion bans.

But let's not forget the US also has sky rocketing cost of childcare, no legally required maternity leave, not to mention the out of pocket cost just to give birth.

Women aren't to blame for plummeting birthrates, misogynists thinking women should always "take one for the team" are. Women do not owe misogynists or society babies.
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Conjuay

(1,388 posts)
1. Forgive me, pal,
Thu Mar 28, 2024, 02:49 PM
Mar 28

The human race isn't going extinct, no matter what wild assertions you make up.
By the time you count to a billion 3 times there will be another billion to count.

Nevilledog

(51,112 posts)
3. This "wild assertion" is being used to justify taking bodily autonomy from women.
Thu Mar 28, 2024, 02:56 PM
Mar 28

Perhaps you don't follow or monitor RW spaces like I do, but the push for more babies to be born because of falling birthrates is commonly used as a basis for banning abortions.

getagrip_already

(14,757 posts)
4. Yeah, but remember, most of those arent people....
Thu Mar 28, 2024, 03:03 PM
Mar 28

They have brown or yellow skin. And they aren't the right kind of Christian, or tall enough.

Sure, some of them are useful for some things, but not populating "our" country.

sarcasm

Attilatheblond

(2,183 posts)
2. Years ago, decades ago, in a Dorothy Parker-esq mood, I wrote in my notebook
Thu Mar 28, 2024, 02:54 PM
Mar 28
Men who want chattel
should marry with cattle

It may have been the day I tossed my selfish, neglectful and unappreciative spouse's thing on the lawn. I dunno, it was a long time ago. My views have not softened in the interim. Now it is a prime motivator for my politics.

Ping Tung

(569 posts)
5. False advertising again...."Land of the free....." except for women.
Thu Mar 28, 2024, 03:14 PM
Mar 28

How long before rapists who impregnate women are lauded as Patriots sacrificing their Precious Bodily Fluids for America?

Iris

(15,657 posts)
9. That's what they don't like - the idea that women have power over something they dont
Thu Mar 28, 2024, 03:56 PM
Mar 28

And rather than consider how we can build a society where everyone can thrive, they insist on trying to make everyone fit into a world built for white men.

TSExile

(2,449 posts)
7. Maids, sex toys, incubators.
Thu Mar 28, 2024, 03:21 PM
Mar 28

That's all they think we are. I will never be subservient to any man - period!!

modrepub

(3,495 posts)
8. I'm Sure Corporate Profits Are Through The Roof
Thu Mar 28, 2024, 03:28 PM
Mar 28

Maybe some real journalists will ask CEO's who are worried about the US demographics why they aren't willing to share more of their profits with their workers so they can actually afford to have more children.

And maybe we should start a news company that has journalists who interview M$M journalists on why they never confront their subjects with questions that make the people they interview uncomfortable answering. (Crummy bum licks...).

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