"Feminist" is this go-to word the men like to throw out, like we're somehow supposed to be offended by it. There are some wacko ultra-feminists, as there are wacko extremists in every movement. It's just caveman mentality on their part. The little boys on this site are frustrated they're alone, so they lash out at us and blame us for their deficiencies that keep them single rather than improving themselves. They are constantly on the search for a completely helpless, mindless woman who lacks the self-respect to stand up to them when needed. If you're not aspiring to sit at home, dusting the end table over and over and mindlessly obey his every command while you wait for him to come home and be his personal baby factory, they let the insults fly. If you don't want kids, that's perfectly fine. Pursue your own aspirations and if you can find an evolved man who supports your life decisions, then keep him. Ignore the insults they throw around. They are merely afraid of independent women who don't need them to be successful and they don't value intellect or self-respect.
not sure! it really has nothing to do with it. we feminists just want everyone to be able to choose. i’m a passionate feminist, and i definitely want kids.
I would say because the idea or of not having kids and not starting a family was pushed by the feminist movement. It´s part of modern society that you can have a meaningful and pleasured life without having kids. Since nowadays at least in the West there is a structured welfare system people have a choice to have kids or not since in the old days raising kids was the way to get you through life when you were older.
Generally speaking a woman that doesn´t want kids is not per se a feminist in my view she´s rather a progressive minded person or she has personal reasons like infertility or coming from an abusive background she wants to hide.
feminism is having the choice and being able to exercise that choice. pure and simple. it's not feminist to want or not want children but having the freedom to make that decision
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I won't say it's feminist in & of itself but your reasoning is very feminist when you talk about sacrificing your life. From a male POV, we sacrifice a lot for women. In fact we are expected to take a bullet for even a random girlfriend we started dating 1 day ago, if violent criminals show up. So to tell us about sacrificing your life, & how your life is so precious, isn't going to get sympathy. Women go on and on about how they're nurturers and compassionate and emphatic. We don't want to hear about how you're not willing to take a bullet for a kid. That would mean you're not good wife material. For any traditional type guy that means you're not worth taking seriously and by definition that makes you feminist because all feminists are too selfish and in some way lacking feminine qualities. She could look really good physically but she will in some way have masculine qualities.
Just off the top of my head.
The "feminist" part of it is usually whatever else the woman wants to do instead of having kids.
I'm not in the business of telling other people how to live their lives (especially when it comes to women about having children), so all I will say on the subject is this; I am a professionally successful man, I am a tremendously lucky and happy man, I am also alone (not lonely, but I am alone). I did the things I did because they were best option (s) for me. I saw opportunities and I took them. ALL OF THAT BEING SAID: I'm not happy because of my success. I'm happy because of the relationships I've been able to cultivate.
Do not pursue career success in place of interpersonal relationships under the impression that it will make you more happy.
u Because people that make that comment view having kids as the pinical of being alive so not wanting it goes against the norm and feminists go against what they see as the norm
Equating correlation and causation. Most Feminists don't want kids, since kids (as any fair-minded person must admit) are one of, if not THE, biggest changes your life can ever have, and that disrupts said life in a way Feminists usually object to.
Of course, there are many reasons to not want kids, and only a handful of them require adhering to Feminist reasoning, but as with any hate movement, it's always looking to legitimize itself by claiming other people's allegiance.
My girlfriend is very traditional and is the opposite of a feminist and she doesn't want kids. Dumb people say dumb things but that doesn't make it true
Feminism is the Reason for why Japan is going Extinct, many Feminists are Childless.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/06/03/japan-low-births-population-decline-2021/
Not all women who don't want kids are feminists, and not all feminists don't want kids.
HOWEVER, a much larger percentage of feminists than normal women don't want kids, and most of them love to try to convince other women to be like minded.
Also, most feminists don't discover they want kids until they are past the age when it is healthy (and safe for the child) to have one, and then they usually want to do it without a father, which is obviously horrible for the child.
I don't know where they got that argument from since lesbians tend to be feminists but go an adopt kids.
Hollywood stars tend to be feminists and they have children as well.
I’ve never heard anyone say that. It’s rightfully a matter of choice.
If you are still saying the same at 35, I'll believe you. You don't have to want or have them.
Until then, it's the same 'me, me' dogma we hear of endlessly from certain quarters.
It's absolutely a feminist concept to destroy the family.
because some people are idiots
Feminism is anti-family.
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