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Lawl. The ignorance in people who actually use that as an excuse makes me laugh. Laffiteh.

But I think the only times genders should be meshed is through sexual preference. Too many people think that homosexuality is confined to men and that lesbians only exist in porn.

3nodding If there were only a few women who could give birth, then it might be something special. However, it happens everyday. It's nothing new. Babies aren't miracles. They're born everyday, and have been since the beginning of humankind. Rosa Parks did something special. Emily Pankhurst did something special. Woman giving birth? Everyday occurence.

Everyone who lives on their own does it all for free if it's not their profession. Taking care of your house, laundry and dishes is what everyone does when they live by themselves. Unfortunately, the burden is often put on the woman of the house to do, instead of the man, if there are multiple people living in one dwelling. It shouldn't be something people get paid for, but is should be something that is equally split up between the house's older occupants, so that there isn't one person doing all that stuff for three or four people.

Oh right. My greatest power is reproduction. Forget that I can teach a person who has no self confidence in themselves and cannot draw but wants so desperately to make beautiful things, to learn their place in the art world and how creation doesn't have to be an acurately drawn portrait or a well placed painting.

Forget that I can teach a singer how to support their notes from the stomach rather than the chest, giving them less chance to damage their vocal chords.

Forget that I am able to manage my financial situations AND my boyfriend's.

Forget that I can reach out to people having a hard time in their life and tell them, even if I don't have extra time, that I will MAKE the time to be there for them.

Forget that I can make an old dusty book new and interesting from scraps of paper, pictures, glue, and paint.

*barfs*

No, my greatest power is making BABIES!

Holy s**t, 3600?!?
How do you do it? I must know!

Really? *thinks about moving there* hmm...

I think the ability to have children is more of a curse to just bring the population up and someone has to do it so it has to be women.

I bolded the last part for emphasis, for I too, share your sentiments. I mean, The anti-choicers will lurk about here in our guild, then b***h about and pick apart our arguments in the safety of their own guild, where we are forbidden to enter and thus cannot defend ourselves, and they hardly, if ever, go into the abortion thread to argue with any of us face-to-face. So, ya know what? Turnaround is fair play, I say. They got a problem with it, they can go suck a d**k for all I care. although we know none of them would ever do a thing like that, for all those little spermies sliding down someone's throat is murder, I tells ya, murder!!! s**t...

I'm actually in favor of making it so that men can carry a pregnancy. I don't think it will increase the population by all that much since few couples will be like "Omg, hunny, now we can tag team baby production!"

I see it helping the following people:

-Male homosexual couples who want to experience parenting including pregnancy.

-Families in which the woman is the major bread-winner and does not wish to have to miss work to be pregnant.

-Families with househusbands who would like to take on this "female role" as well as the others.

-It would shut up people who whine about how it's "my baby too" and think this justifies oppressing women. They could just transfer the fetus from her uterus and into his body so that she can go off and have fun and pay child support and he can worry about the pain, risks, and social stigma attached to pregnancy.

And I am sure that there are plenty other examples where people would benefit from this. I know many men who wish they could experience pregnancy. This would give them a chance.

Of course, all of this is a LONG way off. They can't even get the proceedure to work in mice yet.


Or just "not a good mom." It's idiotic that you expect both people to work and then attach social stigma if parents seek other means of caring for the children while they do so. It's a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation, like so many situations women are forced to face.


Neither do I. I actually think that it's a very good thing for one parent (either parent) to stay at home for at least the first 3-4 years if the family can afford to do so.

Her quote wasn't saying that being a stay at home mom is awful. It's saying that many women CHOOSE to work, that they aren't just working because of social pressures. I'm a good example of this. I start getting very bad depression and anxiety when I have a vacation (even if it's only a week) because I hate being at home so much. I need to work, I need to go outside every day and do something that I feel is productive. Even if you gave me a billion dollars right now and I never had to work again for the rest of my life, I would still probably get at least a part time job because I enjoy working.

My husband is the opposite. He hates working and he feels much more satisfied with his life when he's cooked a good meal or cleaned the apartment. He gets more of a sense of self-satisfaction seen a clean home than seeing a paycheck. He enjoys being at home. So obviously, it would make no sense whatsoever in our family for me to be a stay-at-home mom while he works.


I think it's plainly obvious that most people who feel strongly on the issue of homosexuality, abortion, women's rights, etc... for Christian religious reasons aren't actually feeling strongly because of religion. They feel strongly out of hatred for whatever group, or a sense of superiority over said group. Religion is simply used as a way to justify themselves and give them the sense that they aren't just being psychopathic and cruel, that they are divinly inspired.