Reply #126: god yeah [View All]

[Djinn]

My personal favourite (and it's one of the Misogyny drums that women beat as much if not more than men) is the insistence that ALL women want to have kids.

I've never wanted them, OK occasionally I look at my mate's newborn and think "awwww" but I recognize that while having a kid might have nice bits it also has a whole lot of stuff I don't want.

People who have just met me think they know me well enough to insist that one day I'll change my mind simply because I'm a woman. At this point in my life you'd think the maternal urge would have kicked in. It hasn't. Very few men I know who are childless and intend remaining that way encounter the utter disbelief that I do. It's like there's some law that says ovaries must be used that doesn't apply to sperm.