reposted to be boostable: child rearing and how society treats afab people
I do think there’s a lot of issues with parenthood as it stands. Society tells afab people as soon as they understand words that they are going to be mothers, that they have to, that they’re bad people if they don’t, like they’re missing their calling or something. It’s indoctrination. Not to mention how miserable child rearing is, and how afab people are expected to give their life away to creating and caring for things they’re not even sure they want, it’s just what they’re supposed to do. Thinking about it makes me sick. Seeing miserable, tired mothers next to screaming children every day makes me mad, thinking about all the people who would be so much happier if they hadn’t grown up in a society that made them feel like they had no choice other than this lifestyle. And on top of that, all the children that suffer because the parents didn’t know or care what they were getting into.
I don’t think that having children is inherently bad, I just think the culture around it needs to drastically change
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but i know this: every person experiences interaction differently, and our lived experiences define how we feel and react. a survivor, victim, or individual made uncomfortable has a right to react to a situation however their lived experience informs them to. this is how our brains teach us to survive trauma.
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