Posted on 01/02/2002 6:49:27 AM PST by dead
Except your decision. We are quite enthusiastic about that. Can you give a Darwin award to a feminist?
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Well I applaud her decision and am thankful this shallow, selfish couple will not be passing their values along to the next generation.
Being a wife and mother is the greatest joy I've ever know...far surpassing the child-less, free to pursue my own interest years.
I didn't think I would ever want children when I was in my late 20s either...there is quite a wakeup call when you hit your 30s and you realize you're fast approaching a time when you won't be able to have any children.
If this is the way she views motherhood, she and her "partner" are better off not having any children. However, I'd be interested to hear what she has to say 5 years from now...I'd almost bet money she will have changed her tune by then....
-penny
Do you not agree that her statements in this article (not merely her decision, which is not inherently wrong) could reasonably lead somebody to conclude that she is bitter, selfish, and utterly self-centered?
From an anthropoligical perspective, love is a great way to ensure that kids, who take a very long time to grow up, and a HUGE output of resources while they're growing up, have two parents in order to achieve that. Besides, what does this idiot think "desire" is for? Nothing more than fun? Not that it ISN'T fun. Oh, she's a feminanazi, I almost forgot. To her, sex is probably just an act of domination by a penis attached to a man.
"They let us down by not making what is seen as the ultimate declaration of heterosexual love"
IMO, they let society as a whole down when they DO procreate, and make even more maladjusted people for society to cope with. For this reason, I applaud this female's decision not to foist her screwed up offspring on us...I just HATE it when they use these issues as soapboxes, though.
Bi-polar... I new a girl like that once.... (sigh)
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Nope, it's multiple personality disorder, we have multiple moderators and they each have their own personality.
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This author and her partner sound bi-polar to me... hehehe
. . . who never learned how to spell "skeptical."
Or just plain "bi?"
Given her self-absorption, let's hope not. Would you really wish this woman and her "partner" on an innocent baby?
How to tell if you are a feminist hag (or any other liberal for that matter):
When a personal choice becomes a crusade with which to take on the world.
It isn't enough to simply decide not to have kids, she has to preach to us about not having kids.
There is too much pressure to have children. The love I have for my daughter is larger than anything I have ever felt in my lifetime. I would trade my life for her happiness without a second thought. That being said...I would probably not be married to her mother if it weren't for the presuure of having children. I am great at being a father. I am not so great at being a husband. Not that I am doing anything immoral or deceitful towards my wife or my committment. I just believe that I was not designed to be married.
It's sad.
But my daughter has brought me a happiness that I never thought I could experience. I was curious as to whether anyone here could relate.
Give the lady credit for her honesty at least, and lets hope she doesn't have any kids. My wish would be that all other future "bad mothers" and bad parents, would NOT have children. Leaves the rest of us with fewer messed up kids to begin with, plus, it helps clear up the gene pool.
Yeah, better that she doesn't have children. Too many children are already being raised by daycares instead of their parents.
Yes. I feel a tender sympathy for their blind cluelessness, and hope for their sakes that God overrules their fear and stubbornness as he did mine.
Maybe everybody that likes kids and wants kids should just learn to accept that theirs is NOT a universal belief and go on with their lives. None of "us" are trying to talk people out of having kids, why do "you" feel the need to harp on those that have decided the other way? Handle it and move on. Whether or not there is or ever will be a basinet in my house is nobody's concern but my wife and I's, much like the existences of a basinet in somebody else's house is none of my business. If anything the nagging and holier than thou attitude just makes us dig our heals in further, America is after all a rather free spirited country and American's a notorious for refusing to give into nagging even when they agree with it.
You sound like my father. Great dad, not so great husband. I know he has suffered marriage in order to provide for his family. None the less, I consider him the greatest man I have ever known.
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