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    Reminder that just because you don’t have children, doesn’t mean you have to achieve a certain level of career or academia. You’re still valid. I’m still valid…

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      I’ve done my part to make the world a better place by not having kids, and I’m just cruising along.

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          You guys have expendable income?

          I can’t complain too much, because I usually end each month with a couple hundred in pocket money, but one of the primary reasons I don’t have kids is cause there’s no way in hell I’m going to afford it. The $200ish a month that I waste on weed and video games are not going to afford diapers and daycare.

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            Yeah, it’s not really that much, but it’s precisely for that reason that I know after paying for my own necessities, I can’t afford mini-mes. And let’s not even get started on the emotional baggage I picked up in childhood that keeps me convinced to this day it’s best to just not perpetuate a negative cycle my family seems stuck in.

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      I don’t think “valid” is a proper word for someone’s life. You don’t have to be validated by anyone, you don’t own anyone anything. Do what you yourself see fit for this one-time adventure.

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      I always like to remind people that their ancestors survived as fishermen and farmers and peasants, you aren’t a failure if you don’t become the president or the greatest person in your field or whatever.

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    Look at your bodies, women! An internal inguinal canal less likely to cause a hernia, lower center of gravity, higher body fat, and less body hair for easier cleanup. God created you for spending long hours in the coal mines!

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      But men’s long ass nosehair makes for natural filters against the dust in the mines! Clearly men are better suited for the mines!

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        But look at how small and dexterous the children are, able to squeeze and clamber through the tunnels. And look at what they play all day: Minecraft. Clearly the children are best suited, as they yearn for the mines.

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    I can’t see my ovaries or womb. I guess I’ll never know my purpose of serving men and go back to living my life.

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    FYI If you don’t have any connective tissue between your breasts, ovaries and womb you might have a problem. Your doctor should check you for vitamin deficiency

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    It’s always the Devil who tries to convince everyone that he speaks for God.

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      I’d remove the religious implications and say “it’s always those who are most convinced they have a monopoly on Truth who are most dehumanizing to the out-group”

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            Believe me, I’m all for using religious imagery when it’s appropriate for getting the point across. However, the whole point of OP’s statement is lost if it’s not made clear that religion itself is the primary source of this evil. Otherwise, “It’s always the Devil who tries to convince everyone that he speaks for God,” could just as easily mean “my god is right and yours is the devil.”

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          Fair point, but using ambiguous religious language to convey the dangers of religion seems a bit open to misinterpretation, imo.

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          They call themselves a “transformed wife” and, living in Texas, I’ve met enough of the self proclaimed evangelical trad wife types to know that there are plenty of deeply brainwashed women who hold these beliefs and would agree with this post.

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          She’s made videos and written books full of this vile bullshit. So we know she’s all too real, unfortunately. She exists in the Christian Fundamentalist influencer corner of the internet, which is about as fun as it sounds. Google “Transformed Wife.”

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          we do though. she has a YouTube channel. she’s a disgusting vile piece of shit who beat her kids from the time they were babies and tells other parents to do the same. as well as promoting rape culture, rigid gender roles, etc.

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        If you look her up you will see that this is one of her more tame takes unfortunately. At least this is not about her views on women’s place in marriage or the rights a husband supposedly has to their wives body, regardless of consent. I can’t help but feel a little sad for her though. From her recounting of her life it sounds like she married a man she didn’t love because that’s what she was supposed to do. After over a decade of miserable marriage she broke and saw it as her duty to be servile in all things to a man she was never really attracted to and convinced herself that happiness is to live that submissive life in deference to a man in all things. If it was the story of someone who got out and found a life outside those oppressive beliefs it would be a cautionary tale, but she sees it as the recipe for a good biblical life.

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    It’s always the people who are most obsessed with us reproducing who also work the hardest to make sure there isn’t any future for our children.

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      Of course, reproduction without any forethought is one of the things that leads to that lack of future.

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    I have hands that can turn into fists. Does that mean I was created for hitting things?

    This is your logic, woman!

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      I mean, unironically… from an evolutionary pov, yeah kind of. I don’t know specifics about how hands evolved, but knuckles seem to be shaped a certain way for reasons. I imagine big, boney knuckles was a trait that got successfully passed down due to its usefulness.

      I am not an evolutionary biologist, so I could be wrong. Evolution is weird and counterintuitive sometimes.

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        Hands are fragile, they were created to hold tools. Like a stone. Stones are for hitting, not your poor fragile hands.

        If you use a stone, you can still play the piano or paint your favorite landscape afterwards.

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        Drag has fingers that are just the right size to shove up a huge cloaca. Does this mean drag was created for the purpose of giving handjobs to dragons? Yes, yes it does. And drag is happy with drag’s purpose.

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        Kicking is our natural unarmed attack. Still a last resort compared to throwing rocks or whacking with sticks though. We evolved from ancestors who already used tools to defend themselves.

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        If you look at how Gorillas kind of walk around on their fists, it definitely makes sense that there’s some evolutionary benefit to the knuckle shape. It doesn’t have to be related to hitting things either. It’s easiest to support yourself with a straight wrist, like if you’re holding a branch, vs putting your palm flat is a lot more stress on your wrist.

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    “God created you…”

    Ughhh… Find comfort in religion, fine, but let’s not go push your idea of creation and the ramifications of such on others tyvm…