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Though I am "childfree" myself, I swear that I cannot stand most people who outwardly yap about how they are childfree, and I especially cannot stand antinatalists.
Long ago I lurked /r/childfree because I wanted support against family pressure to have kids. I stopped because I felt like the place was injecting poison into my heart and trying to make me full of hatred for kids and people who have them, which when I took a step back just looked really nonsensical?
It felt like a lot of people acting like they are the most oppressed group of people on the earth.
Antinatalists are like the atheists of parenting.
Same lmao
Yeah especially the ones that hate kids. Idk how. I'm childfree but been raising several kids of relatives. Life would be poorer without em
I used to think I was antinatalist. Really I was coping with my fear that I couldn't take care of a baby, and obsessively tried to be optimistic about the benefits of not having one.
In admitting this fear, I opened my mind to reasons others desire having a child. Actual healthy ones. Like passing on resilience so the next generation can grow to break generational cycles of trauma, and further heal in the name of themselves and their entire ancestral line before them. All the way back to the past generation that started in primordial soup. I believe healing ourselves is to heal backwards in time.
I think each kind of animal has a spirit. When I think of the human spirit and how much health in the world it has the potential produce, I think just about every surviving generation is just this great soup of advancing potential. However many generations of an ancestral line suck and seemingly should not reproduce, one member of a future generation can turn things around. I want these things for people. I have such high hope for humanity. Also, I like to think of how many people out there are neat, and are artists at creating wonderful new people. I may never have a baby but I like that others have them.
Anyone else want to share why they think natalism could be done healthy and for the good? I blocked out my exploration of this topic for decades, and I'd really like to hear about yours.
It is unbelievable that a single celled creature has ended up being humans that can draw pictures, create and play games, play music and sing, garden, domesticate animals to lovingly bond with, etc... More humans please!
I'm neither childfree or antinatalist but I don't trust whites of either category, especially when they come up with extremely disgusting and misogynistic names for children and women. Classism, ableism and racism galore in those spaces.
What are disgusting misogynistic names? I don't believe I know one, so whatever they are, they must take some creativity.
For the women, since they mostly assume the act of procreation, it's stuff like cum dumpsters, broodmares, breeders (this one could also apply to the men tho, it was mostly targeted at the women) and for the kids it's weirdly sexual shit like cum trophy, semen demon, crotch goblin, etc. It's weird and gross. Of course this is not most, let alone the majority of CF people, but I used to frequent a place when I used to be CF populated mostly by white westerners and it was miserable.
Oh, I thought you meant birth names, like Henry, Jane, and John.
I've heard of that first one for women. For the ones aimed toward adults, I think it's only appropriate for those who are in the middle of actively consenting to reclaim being called these names as a kink. It's creepy any other time.
I have not heard those ones for children that is creepy as hell. Why I feel like this has "the straights are not okay" vibe?
OH lmao I didn't catch that but yeah the ones towards kids are fucking creepy especially since they mostly direct them at young children.