#internet users are not single handedly changing the status quo to make straight couples feel bad about having kids | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

gayvampyr · 2 years ago

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yeah it might be annoying when people act like having children is a bad decision for everyone and anyone who chooses to have kids is ~insane~ but like. our society puts having a nuclear family on a pedestal and treats anyone who doesn’t conform like they’re freaks of nature (i.e. lonely adult virgin who just can’t get any, or “crazy cat ladies” or queers who are “destroying good traditional family values”) and ostracizes them and makes them feel broken so like. idk maybe a post online responding negatively to someone who acts like their life is perfect because they’ve achieved the One True Goal of a happy cishet family and looks down on anyone who hasn’t isn’t the biggest deal in the world?

#i just saw some of the responses to that post and like. it’s not that deep #internet users are not single handedly changing the status quo to make straight couples feel bad about having kids #it’s just regular pushback to a social norm that crushes queer people and women and infertile ppl and ppl in interracial relationships etc #and i think the most obnoxious response is ‘no one is making you have kids’ or ‘no one is pressuring you into having kids’ and that’s just.#straight up not true??#like patently. that’s a fucking lie #you don’t have to appeal to logical fallacies and get on a high horse just to justify your feelings about people being slightly annoying #about not wanting children #like idk about you but i was hounded CONSTANTLY as a literal fucking child to have kids when i was older #because that was my duty as a ‘woman’#and as i got older i heard ‘you’ll change your mind eventually’ all the goddamn time #so my bitching about it on tumblr isn’t a big deal in the slightest

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