I didn’t think you could make this shit up, honestly

My sister works as a contractor and has run-ins with private schools occasionally and whatever you’ve heard about these parents, it’s worse than you can possibly imagine. I never would’ve thought someone would be so proud of the fact that they treat their children like pawns and clearly something to check off on a life list or some bullshit.

I am struggling to wrap my mind around it. In the year 2023, it is common to ask two dating people when they plan to get married and have kids. Which alone wouldn’t be a bad thing, but these questions are so fucking ominous now that I have this knowledge. Fuuuuuuuck me

  • spectre [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    This, but unironically. If you're a first worlder "champagne socialist" who is here for the memes, the bare minimum you can do is raise kids with basic socialist values who are gonna take up the fight after we are gone.

    DINK/"child free" is liberalism. Willingly having children is a privilege in most places, but it absolutely should be wielded by those who have it.

    • oktherebuddy
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      11 months ago

      he/him ass opinion. Using your body to carry a pregnancy to term has a higher death & complications rate than getting a laparoscopic nephrectomy to donate your kidney to a stranger and save their life. Why aren't you volunteering your body to do that, which is much more undeniably a comradely act than having a kid?

      • spectre [he/him]
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        11 months ago

        You can have children without biologically reproducing, although these do tend to come with their own ethical baggage.

        Also this comment is targeted toward people in the first world with the means and privilege to support a family with relative ease, which implicitly includes the access to modern obsetric and other healthcare. More importantly, see above.

        • oktherebuddy
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          11 months ago

          The figures remain the same even with modern obstetric care. Women I speak with are generally scared about going through pregnancy, reasonably.

          • spectre [he/him]
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            11 months ago

            That's not my experience with other women that I speak with, and I'd like to see a claim that the figures don't change correlated with wealth

            • oktherebuddy
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              11 months ago

              They do change, but not enough to escape the comparison with live donor nephrectomy.