Yeah but cats just sleep all day and let themselves out whenever they want.
And anyway, who needs a reason to have a baby, we all have biological urges to reproduce, or so they say, though a new article in the LA Times disagrees. How could this not be true.Trust fund girl #1: But you have to have a baby. Babies are so cute 'cause you can dress them up.
--5th & Park
Trust fund girl #2: Totally, and they are way easier then dogs.
Trust fund girl #1: You don't have to walk them even...
THE GERMAN PUBLIC was recently shocked to learn that 30% of "their" women are childless — the highest proportion of any country in the world. And this is not a result of infertility; it's intentional childlessness.I'm shocked, appalled. Perhaps it's time to bring back those breeding farms, I mean, what's wrong with these women?
Demographers are intrigued. German nationalists, aghast. Religious fundamentalists, distressed at the indication that large numbers of women are using birth control.
Well, it seems, according to David P. Barash, evolutionary biologist, that people have sex because they feel like it. Sure there are plenty of people who want children still, but that most likely isn't the motivation for copulation every time they do it. Something to do with it feeling good, or some such nonsense.
And of course there are those of us who have no desire to procreate ever, and for some reason we still like to fuck. Fucking is pretty much a means to itself. Sure it can be a way of bonding with your partner, getting what you want from someone, earning money, as well as getting pregnant, but generally, we do it because we want to. It's that simple.
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This kind of thinking, "essentialsim" is widespread. It's the mistaken belief (in my opinion) that there is something necessary to a thing that gives it its identity. Thus, a homosexual has an essential gayness, an Englishman is constituted with a certain, je sais quoi, Republicans are essentially evil, and all women are geared up not only to bear children (obviously) but more importantly, TO WANT to do this. When the speech or behaviour of the so-called members of these classes seems to oppose such thinking, they're accused of being either abnormal, or not a TRUE member of the class.
Essentialist thinking is used primarily to discriminate, dominate, or to self-elevate. The truth probably is, if there is anything essential to anything, it's not relevant or significant in social life.
For me, the important question is, "Is Essentialim, essentially malevolant". Please discuss.
Pretty much Don. Normal is what most people do, or in times of swift change what most people used to do but not so many people do now, and if you don't do it you're not normal.
And the whole time none of us are normal so who the hell are we comparing ourselves too?
The trend to have children as "accessories" is truly horrifying. I read an article on salon.com a while back on how over the top was getting in the US - you could buy a pram, accessories and outfit for a baby and be around $US7,000 out of pocket. If you were stupid enough.
I wonder if significant numbers in Germany (or anywhere else) are really worried about the non-procreating or if it's a lazy journalist making things up (as per usual). I'll just sit here and think of enjoying sex while I poner that.
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