I’m glad you put the rest of your strawfeminists in scarequotes, because just because Phyllis Schafly and Ann Coulter say something doesn’t make it a genuine feminist position.

Then again, I’ve found that hard leftists really aren’t all that much different from the wingnuts, in terms of their desire to harness everyone else, willing or otherwise to their own ideological wagons. It’s one reason I’ve stopped primarily identifying as a feminist and started primarily identifying as a libertarian.

The others are the modern “feminist” dogmata that woman = mother, and that the game is no longer about equality but about entitlement.

if only BitchPhD were actually advocating the patriarchy’s message of breedership instead of describing it evocatively so that it can be properly blamed, your rant would be more apposite.

Did it ever occur to your ‘pro-natalist feminist’ self that some women do not wish to have children not because of some great patriachal plot, but because they SIMPLY DO NOT WISH TO HAVE CHILDREN?

Can you comprehend that some women think having children is a bad choice for them not because they can’t afford them or want some high-powered career, but because they do not wish to parent offspring/do not like children/find the thought of pregnancy and birth repulsive and would frankly, rather self-adminster abortion with a blunt spoon and a sharpened ballpoint pen?

Does it occur to you that despite maternity leave, and encouragement out the ying-yang for breeding, most women take a look at the delights the modern world has to offer and say ‘mmmmm, I’d like to have a life full of fun and adventure’ and that years spent wiping bottoms, cleaning play-doh off the rug and enduring hour upon hour of toddler-chatter just doesn’t appeal to the more adventurous woman these days? No, really, I know it’s hard to believe, but please try to understand that many women nowadays see childbirth as purely optional and choose NOT to exercise that option.

You suggest I breed for your cause. I suggest you mind your own narrow business and keep chugging down the medication, chickie, if you think that YOU promoting breeding for your little cause is any different than Dubya, Randall Terry or the current leader of the Catholic Church telling me to squelch one, two, three or four out for the greater glory of god or the Republican party. If the great propoganda machines of this planet can’t persuade me to drop one out my snatch, a mildly psychotic, pseudo-intellectual net-twerp such as yourself stands no chance at all.

Love,

An ‘Honourary Man’

You fucking ignorant breedercunt. I have no “slack” for my “browner sisters” to pick up. Know why? BECAUSE IT AIN’T MY FUCKIN’ JOB TO SQUIRT OUT RUGRATS, ASSHOLE!!!!

Oh, and I wonder what the non-white women in the childfree fora I frequent would have to say about your RATFUCKING STUPID idea that it’s only lily-white women who don’t want to whelp?

Fucking asshole Mooooooooooo. Thanks a HELL of a lot for turning the feminist mooooovement into a goddamned cow pasture. No wonder your in-laws say you’re “detached from reality.”

And people ask me why I only had one child? I’d have been eating CAT FOOD in my golden years if I’d had more.

Oddly, my ex-husband became a parent on exactly the same day, at exactly the same time as I did, and his retirement and SS benefits remain, as yet, unaffected.

Patriarchy much?

~C~

Of course, it’s all in danger of falling apart now, because the consumers were also the workers, and those damned uppity workers wanted too much money. So now the workers are folks in China, but the people of the US are still supposed to buy shit they don’t need in order to support the system. Only, we don’t have the income to buy everything they’re throwing at us, because the jobs are getting outsourced. But the whole problem would go away if we would just make more little consumers.

Patriarchy never exactly had brain power on its side, did it?

The reason more British women aren’t having babies is because they CAN’T AFFORD TO. With the Blairite government encouraging 50% of people to go to college, the astronomically overpriced housing market, and the ever-rising council tax (along with other stealth tax increases), there is a huge swathe of British twentysomething society (men and women) who are unable to find ‘graduate’ level jobs and are forced to either move back in with mum and dad or live with an unmarried partner just to make the rent. Over half of the 20-30somethings I knew over there were living with unmarried partners, most with no engagement or wedding or other ceremonial plans (including myself).

Most of the women I knew wanted to have kids, but, like owning a home, viewed this as, largely, a pipe dream.