More debate on broodiness

[djpsyche]

Mainly in case ford_prefect42 doesn't come back to my previous post.

"I kinda figure that everyone has an inborn compulsion to reproduce. It's kinda evolutionary."It's an interesting theory and I'd like to pick it apart

Comments

[beluosus]

If you could define "an inborn compulsion to reproduce" as "a curiosity as to what their offspring would look/be like," then yeah, I do think that everyone has probably pondered on this at some point in their lives.

I've never wanted offspring, and I've never had any curiosity as to what form they would take.

I don't understand why people who ascribe to a commonly-held viewpoint frequently decide that everyone necessarily holds the same view, even if they don't realise it or have it only in a very limited degree. I've gotten the 'you will change your mind someday' speech from my mum on more than one occasion. Along with the 'you'll grow out of the goth phase' speech. Her inability to see that I might hold a different opinion has yet to alter the fabric of reality do that only her opinion remains.

[djpsyche]

beluosus, robot_mel, let me ask you: In my previous post I claimed that women get "you'll change your mind" more often than men do. As a long-term child-free couple, do you agree?

[robot_mel]

I hardly ever hear it. I can think of a couple instances in the past 10 years and one was from an East Asian woman, who I excused as part of her culture, and the other from random taxi driver (also Asian). Among the people I hang out with it just doesn't come up in conversation.

[beluosus]

Women get it more because they have the uterus, and society expects them to love children.

Men and women both get it from their families. Women get it from everybody else too, both acquaintences and strangers.

[djpsyche]

I never got it from acquaintances, but I sure did used to get it from strangers! And medical professionals...

[flavius_m]

I no longer get it from family (about time! at this point in life) but they still always remark on how much better I'd be if I found myself a nice wife..

[djpsyche]

Heh! So now we know the difference in age when women stop being hassled (around 35 for me) and men...