It's the expression "breeding like rabbits" offensive?

[Sun_Kim-Ai]

Personally I don't find it particularly offensive when referred to me and my wife, since we have the mindset of "the more the merrier", but I'm also aware that at least one person meant it in a derogatory way.

What about you?

[PrettyPriya]

I guess one could look at it in two very different ways. I also think the context will have a lot to do with it. For example, if a friend of ours says:

"You guys are breeding like rabbits" in the context that we are trying to have a lot of children and being successful at it, I would not find it offensive at all. I would probably laugh at the comparison. I would also be happy that we were intentionally successful in having a big family.

Now, if it is said to someone that is NOT trying to have a lot of children, I could see how it might be seen as offensive. Perhaps the wife doesn't have much say in the matter and she is being coerced until she produces a male child (yes this still happens, sadly).

So, you can see it could be very situational from person to person. Maybe someone really wasn't trying and just not being smart either and keeps getting pregnant. While they have no right to be irresponsible about sex, no need to pour fuel on the fire.

To me, personally, I would not take offense to it because it is my intention to have children and hopefully successful at it.

[PrettyPriya]

Thank you for the MHO 🙂

[NotTacocaT6969]

What did your first ever apartment cost you?


What does that same apartment cost now?


Do you honestly think your kids will have good lives in a crumbling economy on the brink of third world war?


At this point, only those with low IQ are making the decision to reproduce and it’s pretty hilarious because they made a comedic movie about that happening as a joke over a decade ago…it wound up being a documentary.

[Sun_Kim-Ai]

Well, are more than moderately wealthy and our families own quite a number of production plants and other enterprises, we need to produce heir to put in those places.
But I think your reasoning could apply to medium-low working class.

[NotTacocaT6969]

That would be a solid plan if a recession wasn’t capable of bankrupting nearly all forms of business.

The next recession is beginning right about now.

Things will get difficult for everyone if our leaders can’t fix it in time.

[Jamie05rhs]

Some people say it's "racist.". But I don't think anyone can be offended by something that's true.
(Also, it's actually not racist, since Mormons do it as well.)

[Jamie05rhs]

Thanks for the MHO.

[OlderAndWiser]

When people criticize you for having children, it is actually a statement about their own unhappy life.

[AmandaYVR]

Well it's meant to be derogatory, yeah. There are definitely people who have kids even if they don't seem to be able to manage them at all. It's not really about lots of sex, it's about making lots of kids in a reckless or irresponsible way. I don't find it offensive, but no one says it to me because I don't have kids. And if I did, there wouldn't be several, no way. I've said it sometimes about others, but never specifically, more generally.

[letuswaltzforthedead]

I would say so since people who say it usually mean that you (or whoever the comment is directed) is having too many kids.

It's also Bs since most average parents don't have multiples in a year like rabbits do and usually are decently good at taking care of their family (unlike many species).

[Apple1996]

I don't care for that saying at all like you never know a couple could have struggled to get pregnant then had a bunch of kids in a row so personally would never say that to someone with a lot of kids

[Anonymous]

It’s offensive to rabbits since a lot of rabbits are celebate and focused on their careers. But you only focused on the slutty rabbits so now every rabbit is a slut.

[dustybiker]

I’d have to ask some rabbits.

[Anonymous]

I think it's intended to be offensive.

[Anonymous]

Maybe for some people? But not me.

[LimitedBenefits101]

How is that offensive? in what way?