feminismi

Q: What if you change your mind? You can never tell!?!

A: I don’t see this happening. As for me, I think of myself as essentially the same person I was ten years ago (early twenties) and presumably will be the same in ten years (early forties).

By the way, this innocent sounding argument is actually actually a real pain. And it has also lead to Finland having a high age limit for sterilisation, so it’s also harmful.

Q: What about the biological clock?

A: The what? We all get older. However, you can’t tell me what I should be feeling.

I’m sure that being broody is a real and strong feeling for many, but I still just don’t have it in me.

You can’t reason everything in terms of evolution. Simplifying ”biological” arguments often go together with muddled thinking and gender normative models.

I feel happy being just a ”useless” link in the chain of life. That’s life, too!

Q: Don’t you want to pass on your genes?

A: No. Plenty of genes in this world already.

Q: How about Finland and the Finns?

A: Not the most pressing problem. For reference, here’s the human population chart on our planet.

Q: A woman is no real woman without having given birth!

A: Then I’m probably not a woman.

Contraceptives and reproductive rights are a massive advances in terms of civilisation and women’s rights. Still, some of the most basic rights (such as abortion and the right not to hear stupid opinions such as the above) are under threath or lacking in many places.

What a monster of a sentence…

Q: How do you know what is pain / being tired / love before you have given birth / stayed up nights with a baby / raised children?

A: As for the first two, do I want to know?

There are plenty of pains and causes for insomnia in life, also for other reasons.

And plenty of love, too.

Q: Who will take care of you when you’re old?

A: Probably civilisation will collapse anyway in a few decades due to the strain on the environment… so…

Or on a more positive note, society should really take care.

No one has guarantees in life that they will
A) get to live to an old age
B) have their kids take care of them.

In developing societies, people are forced to reproduce to guarantee care in old age when pensions and social security are lacking. This is one of the reasons behind excess population growth.

Q: Do you hate children?

A:Yup. Especially you!

DISCLAIMER: As touching this subject at all seems to annoy many commentators…

I don’t hate anyone or anyone’s Mum.

I only mean good, not evil.

Peace!