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11. It is the one of the last acceptable (silent) bigotries in society
Wed Feb 14, 2024, 11:49 AM
Feb 2024

You can expect all sorts of insults as a childfree woman, people (even supposedly liberal people) would never dare visiting on someone who has popped out the obligatory 2-20 kids with an appropriate dead-eyed mate .

Have kids or don’t -it is not some amazing feat.

And it is an overpopulated planet. I always wish people would address it from the left so that it would not be that only bigots and racists address it (because one way or the other it is a reality that people notice).

Just saying “educate women” without explicitly pointing out that family planning is a social service is bullshit.

And women like me who choose to not have a kid (in my case both for the planet and to prioritize my own career/work ) don’t appreciate trashy decisions devaluing our lives.

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