isn't not having a kid and focusing on yourself and career more empowering than going to work 7mo pregnant?

[fonduegirl]

seen many videos of women choosing not to take break from work bc they feel they can manage and im like, manage what, your body needs rest for at least a year... and evidently, this is being labelled as, empowering to women? empowering how

working in a capitalist hellscape while morning sickness and mood swings hit you? carrying around another human being, so heavy by the way, when your boss tells another employee to pick up your slab of work bc they aren't carrying a joyous bundle hence they are batman or something? a lot of cities dont have the maternal leave stuff... and thats empowering?

not all but in many households women are forced to bear children despite outearning their hubbies... thats empowering?

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@Cidknee Of course you would say that. Your job is to only shoot a sperm. We never hear fathers dying from childbirth 😙😙

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looking forward to more pink opinions.

i personally feel both options are awful. HOWEVER, you can technically survive minus procreation, but in this economy YOU must find work at all costs to make ends meet. developed countries may give you stipends, and if i lived there i would have a less negative opinion children.
but here in india, old people work, teenagers work, married women work... so there are 0 benefits unless ur hubby is rich which you guy will also judge lol.

just keeping it real

[Lynx122]

You can chose to do whatever you want you just have to live with the choices. You're calling work a capitalist hellscape but you think building your life around that is better than having a family. Maybe you can find a way you can have a family without working when you're 7 months pregnant you never know. It's up to you. I think economically atm it's just a shit situation globally. That makes everything harder. Maybe after the big crisis that we're headed towards hits there will be a bit of a boom again when people are rebuilding and the economy actually has room to expand again. I don't know we'll see.

I'm just a bit confused at how you think working at 7 months is the worst thing ever but working your entire life in this same job that you say is so bad, that's a good thing.

[nastyb]

food is already so expensive lately and this lady thinks its a great idea to not work. good luck starving her own kid

[NathanDavis]

making choices for yourself without worrying about what social media thinks or says...

that's true "power"

and then, you don't have to worry either about going around announcing you're "empowered"

you just live happily with your choices, lol

[Evsisa]

There’s nothing empowering about spending your lfie being a corporate slave and not having kids - ending your and your family’s bloodline and history. Neither is it empowering to work and have kids. Working, wasting your life making someone else rich, is not empowering in any sort of way and the narrative that it is is propaganda meant to get more people to work more. It was propaganda from the start back in the days because they saw an opportunity to double the workforce (slaveforce) if they could get women to join it.

[nastyb]

of course it's less empowering to work for someone else. but people don't work for someone else for fun. they do it so they can feed their kids and send their kids to good schools.

[nastyb]

um... if living off of nothing, trying to raise your kid off of nothing, go nights without dinner, can't afford to pay the heat bill for winter, can't afford to send your kids off to college, can't afford them school supplies, can't afford to retire then go ahead and not work

[nastyb]

I grew up under poverty with a tiny stipend every month, I gotta tell you... it's horrible way to raise a child. Poverty is one of the best ways to traumatize a child

[jahaims]

It's empowering to let people do what they want as long as they aren't harming others. Different people have different preferences.

[moddy_the_mod]

Nothing’s been worse for society than women believing that having a career over a family is empowering.

[Paige2006]

Both can be empowering for different reasons.

[AgentG111]

If that's what you want then yes

[LotharioENERZY]

Carrer is more important.