They are simultaneously encouraging more children to be born while attacking everything that supports kids: childcare, healthcare, education, maternal and infant health, and safety.
The issue with men like these has always that women get to choose. They would rather default us into what maximizes their utility and preserves their power and influence.
Us even having the option to choose disrupts their fantasy.
I'm in the final stages of editing #TheDoubleTax and the chapter about motherhood has just remained with me.
The costs mothers face, both seen and unseen, are enough to discourage anyone from becoming a mom. If the price of a motherhood is my well being, why would I sign up?
Like abortion, it's not actually about babies. It's just about power. They definitely don't want you having any of those things. Then you wouldn't be fully dependent on whatever dude owned you via pregnancy.
So many facts.
Society just punishes us.
For having sex.
For not having sex.
For liking sex.
For not enjoying sex.
For saying “No”.
For reporting men who ignore “No”.
For laughing.
For not “taking a joke”.
For being too timid.
For being too loud.
For our clothes. Or no clothes.
For being women.
For having great thoughts they steal
For telling everyone they stole our shit
For beating them at a game
For losing to them at a game
For even wanting to play the game
For having bodily fluids
For not having bodily fluids
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FTFY
If we opt in, the cost is financial, emotional, and physical. If we opt out, the cost is societal. We are seen as a "disappointment".
Us even having the option to choose disrupts their fantasy.
The costs mothers face, both seen and unseen, are enough to discourage anyone from becoming a mom. If the price of a motherhood is my well being, why would I sign up?
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I need to stop telling y'all what's in this book.
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We must be controlled at any cost or else we’ll have enough to power to care for EVERYBODY!!
Could you imagine…
If we aren’t performing precisely as an individual man wants, complete strangers will defend him and vilify you.
Any comment section can show you that
Society just punishes us.
For having sex.
For not having sex.
For liking sex.
For not enjoying sex.
For saying “No”.
For reporting men who ignore “No”.
For laughing.
For not “taking a joke”.
For being too timid.
For being too loud.
For our clothes. Or no clothes.
For being women.
For telling everyone they stole our shit
For beating them at a game
For losing to them at a game
For even wanting to play the game
For having bodily fluids
For not having bodily fluids