Journalist Kate Spicer:'Any woman who says she's happy to be childless is a liar or a fool'

[astridmyrna]

Not so long ago women without children, like me, were pitied. But now the world has caught on to the fact that, on the surface at least, we don't have such a hard life

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[chaya]

[astridmyrna]

I have a feeling that my gif collection is going to increase exponentially after this post.

[clevermanka]

Yep.

[skellington1]

Only reason for this kind of BS, really. Skimmed the article; came for the gifs.

*please don't fail me ontdp*

[castalianspring]

[wrestlingdog]

A+ gif!

[castalianspring]

Icon! *responds with matching one*

[darsynia]

EXACTLY, Marilla. (sp)

[gambitia]

"If educated, successful women like me don't breed, are we gearing up for a generation of Epsilon-minus semi-morons?

Social mobility is stickier than ever, so let's not leave breeding to the idiots."

Wow, the classism. Just...holy shit. And she's the not the first I've heard say it! Like, I'm really naive and pretty tone-deaf and I can understand why this is an incredibly hateful and awful viewpoint.

[astridmyrna]

Oops! I knew I forgot a tag.

[skellington1]

Remember, if you're not educated and don't have a successful career, it's because you're a failure in your genes!

[mercystars]

is this by the idiot who also says all women are ~mad jeluzz of her beauty~, and that her husband would righfully dump her if she gained weight? because there seem to be a lot of them and i'm having trouble keeping them straight without a goddamn program.

[maynardsong]

Who's that woman? Links?

[mercystars]

i thiiiink she writes for the daily mail

here she is, samantha brick

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2124246/Samantha-Brick-downsides-looking-pretty-Why-women-hate-beautiful.html

[maynardsong]

Ugh what did I read? I HAVE a stunningly gorgeous blonde friend. I've never heard her wish she's less attractive.

[beoweasel]

[kitanabychoice]

I love this gif, just wanna say. *g*

[beoweasel]

This guy is like the best Joker Cosplayer I have ever seen. o-o

Too bad it's no longer accurate. D:

[world_dancer]

This is true, and yet, when you look at the list of reasons people have children -- carrying on the family name, someone to take care of me when I'm old, the desire that I should be unconditionally loved, feeling the urge to take the required "next step" etc -- they're all generally selfish reasons. (Not that there aren't unselfish reasons, but you only have to read this article to see how many of them the writer uses.)

Whereas childless by choice people generally have reasons -- I wouldn't be a good role model/caregiver due to XYZ trauma in my past, I don't have the time or money to properly take care of a kid, I just am uninterested in children and a child deserves to be cared for, I don't want to contribute to global overpopulation ...etc -- which are generally unselfish and community oriented. Not that there aren't selfish reasons like "I want to spend all of my money on me/I want all of my mate's attention/I want to focus on my career," but in general those aren't the high points of why it doesn't suit them to be parents.