[ SECRET POST #2732 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2732 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

07. http://i.imgur.com/JMqWyBk.png

[peablossom]

Perhaps it's the lack of context, but none of those look funny.

[kallanda_lee]

Uh, tell me about it. Society has an unhealthy obsession with obsession over other people's reproductive plans. Just today my mom got a letter from a friend asking why the bf and I haven't tied the knot yet and that she'd surely be so happy with a grandchild.*vomit*

[loracarol]

Those are gross. :/ OP, would you mind telling me the name of the comic so I can avoid it?

[(Anonymous)]

I can understand my parents' interest in it (they so want to be grandparents). So long as they respect that it's my decision, I don't mind them telling me that they'd like to be grandparents.

Anyone who is not my partner or directly related to me can f*ck off, though.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, someone needs to give me some context before I judge this. Tried googling can't figure out the cmoci.

[(Anonymous)]

wtf

[hands4healing]

That reminds me too much of what my friend went through when her husband, parents, and in-laws convinced her she needed to have a child. Six years later, she's still regretting the decision.

[kallanda_lee]

That's awful :(

[hands4healing]

Yeah, she has not been the same since the child was born. :\ We were hoping that it was post-partum depression, but as long as it's lasted, well.

[(Anonymous)]

Daaaaaayum, that sucks. :/ Having a child isn't exactly a situation that you can go back on. Even if she separated from her partner and gave him complete custody... nothing will ever be the same as before the kid.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

This. If somebody's not ready to have a child, they should never have that choice forced on them, no matter what. Having a kid's a big deal, whether you feel you want to have a child or not.

[silvereriena]

I will forever be grateful that my parents have never pressured me in this aspect.

[icecheetah]

Yeah... speaking as someone who is very unlikely to have children I find that creepy. You're not alone in not finding them funny at all.

[(Anonymous)]

My goodness, "my dad's turning 50 this year"?? My dad was 30 when I was born, and I sure as hell wouldn't appreciate being pressured into kids when I was 20 (or even if he'd been 25 and I were 25).

[teaphile]

Plus Dad's got at least a good twenty years to go before he can't walk.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, mine was 29 and my mom 31, and I'm the eldest. Three of my four grandparents were 28 when they started having kids and the fourth was in his 30s. If they wanted to be grandparents/great-grandparents at 50, they should have started having kids at an earlier age.

Also, like Teaphile suggested, 50 is not decrepit and elderly. Most people that age are ~15 years out from retirement and wouldn't even be able to spend lots of time with their grand kids, anyway.

[kallanda_lee]

My dad's 70, fortunately he's somewhat sane about it.

[(Anonymous)]

uh.........these are terribly done. am i the only skeptic who wonders if OP just made up this "fandom" in order to make this complaint?

(sorry OP, i will eat my words if the comic link comes up)

Not OP

[(Anonymous)]

Here's a link for people who are confused: http://sstangarang.tumblr.com/tagged/karezi

This is a series of comics based on the artist's personal Homestuck AU. It revolves around a relationship in which one party does not want children but everyone in her family (especially her partner) harasses her until she concedes.

I kind of agree with you, OP -- this series didn't do anything for me and I felt kind of uncomfortable and distressed on behalf of the female character. That said, I have a "live and let live" attitude about the comic. Obviously these comics were written for the author and not for me, and we all have different preferences. This is pretty much on par with stuff like kink fics as far as I'm concerned. Maybe we don't condone some particular behaviors in real life but making comics and fics about them shouldn't be against the rules.

Re: Not OP

[(Anonymous)]

Homestuck fans being gross, news at 11.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh my god. Whatever comic that is, it's gross.

[(Anonymous)]

That couple needs to break up and find people who want the same things they want. I feel sorry for both of them.

[(Anonymous)]

Holy crap. If any man of mine was that pushy about the subject of having a child, I'd seriously be considering whether I wanted to stay in a relationship with him.

[(Anonymous)]

I genuinely had to argue with a friend of mine to convince her that not having a child when she didn't want one and her partner did was not a bad thing. She wasn't ready for kids, she wasn't interested in having kids, she wasn't sure about the relationship, and she and I were planning a trip overseas within a year or so - she kept talking about having the kid then leaving it with the dad till we got back.

She split up with the guy later. Turns out she'd been guilt-tripped into getting involved with him, and he and his friends kept telling her he might do "something stupid" if they ever split up, to stop her from leaving.

So yeah, I'm with you OP. Pressuring someone about children is disgusting. A child is not a pet, you can't return them if it doesn't go well. And the choice to have a child is a personal one.

This goes for guys, too. I find the idea of women getting themselves pregnant with unwilling guys just as unpleasant. You shouldn't force someone else into parenthood.