[ SECRET POST #2951 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2951 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[The To-Do List, Brandy/Willy]


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[Avatar: Legend of Korra]


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[The Amazing World of Gumball]


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[Agents of Shield]


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[Game of Thrones]


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[Galavant]


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[Soukyuu no Fafner Exodus]


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[Jamie Dornan from "The Fall"]


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(Neil Gaiman)













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Comments

Re: Childfree versus not wanting kids?

[lb_lee]

Enh. I feel like I can't really take the 'childfree' label because I'm a demographic that a lot of people feel SHOULDN'T have kids. Since coming out, I've NEVER been encouraged or pressured to have kids. (In fact, people probably want me NOT to breed.)

I can't really act like I'm being "child free" when there's pressure on me not to reproduce anyway. I couldn't afford kids even if I had them, and I doubt I have the sanity to raise a kid. Like, it works for me, but that's luck. It doesn't require any effort for me to stand up for my child-freeness, because most people want me to stay childless ANYWAY.

--Rogan

Re: Childfree versus not wanting kids?

[sarillia]

Yes, this is me too. It bugs me that the people who are discouraged from having the kids they want are ignored so much both in childfree discussions and discussions of prochoice attitudes which should also include the choice to have children. Didn't bother me here since it's not like people are trying to raise awareness or something, but I'm still always happy to see this acknowledged.

Re: Childfree versus not wanting kids?

[lb_lee]

Yeah, and I'm lucky that how I deal with being trans means I don't have to be sterilized to get the legal things I want. (Thank god, just because I don't want kids doesn't mean I want to undergo surgery!) But that's just ME, there are plenty of trans people or disabled people who DO want to have kids, but are sterilized under social pressure or with no consent at all.

And even though I myself don't want kids, I would be a fool not to note that avoiding pregnancy (especially in an upbringing as rapey as ours) consumed a fair amount of time, worry, and energy. So it's this conflicted thing of, I am HUGELY glad I haven't been forcibly bred, am hugely glad not to have kids, but also angry that a lot of folks in my demographics want kids but are unable to have them.

It's complicated.

--Rogan

Re: Childfree versus not wanting kids?

[kallanda_lee]

Man, the evil side of me sort of wants to tell you you should have kids just to spite them (but my childfree side would never actually tell anyone to have kids unless they want them).

But grr, it's so annoying that other people feel so entitled about telling others that they should or shouldn't have kids.

Re: Childfree versus not wanting kids?

[lb_lee]

*laughs* Well, there are kids in the system, so that can count! I get to have young people in my life, and I'm in loco parentis (accent on loco) but not actually deal with the health dangers of pregnancy.

It is annoying, and often creepy. Especially since we all know people who should never have had kids or been around them, but managed to anyway. Eesh.

--Rogan