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#1 Birthcontrol a Two Edged Sword?
Posted: Sat May 19, 2007 3:08 am
by Norseman
Birthcontrol a Two Edged Sword? is an article from 1922. Here's a sample:
[quote]Now, the reader who expected from the title of this article to find a simple program for bringing in the millennium by urging all women to produce about one or two children apiece, may exclaim in disappointment, “What has all this to do with birth control? What I want is fewer children and better ones.â€
#2
Posted: Sat May 19, 2007 10:16 pm
by Rukia
I think that it's unfair to blame women for not wanting to have children. I know plenty of men that don't want kids either and some of them have kids! It's extremely rude to assume that we value our "'freedom'" more than the continuing of our race. Just because we don't want to have children doesn't make us bad human beings, I think it makes us responsible. Look at the amount of people who have children every year and can't/won't take care of them. It's not our "job" to reproduce just for the sake of reproducing. It seems as though the author thinks that it is.
I love children, but I am unsure if I want any of my own. But it's not because I have something about carrying on our race, but because I'm not sure what I want to do with my life. I may end up dong something that simply would not allow me to raise a child properly. As I'm sure is the case with many women today.
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#3
Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 1:53 pm
by LadyTevar
*snickers* Rukia, that's from 1922. Flapper era, when women first started to stand up for things like Votes, and Freedom, and Birthcontrol.
In short, it's written by a small-minded man who was frightened by how all these 'wild women' were over-throwing his view of traditional 'barefoot in the kitchen pregnant'.
#4
Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 6:27 am
by Ra
This manner of thinking is hardly dead. I go to work at Wal-Mart every day and see a pregnant woman with two children in her buggy and one being led by her hand; all while the man walks lazily beside her. There are plenty of men still remaining that think women are no more than baby factories, in our society that has supposedly advanced in those 85 years, and it sickens me.
#5
Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 9:14 am
by Rukia
Ra wrote:This manner of thinking is hardly dead. I go to work at Wal-Mart every day and see a pregnant woman with two children in her buggy and one being led by her hand; all while the man walks lazily beside her. There are plenty of men still remaining that think women are no more than baby factories, in our society that has supposedly advanced in those 85 years, and it sickens me.
That's why I got upset. It's a very apparent thought/problem still today.
#6
Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 9:54 am
by Comrade Tortoise
Ra wrote:This manner of thinking is hardly dead. I go to work at Wal-Mart every day and see a pregnant woman with two children in her buggy and one being led by her hand; all while the man walks lazily beside her. There are plenty of men still remaining that think women are no more than baby factories, in our society that has supposedly advanced in those 85 years, and it sickens me.
One word: Mormons