I think

[Aerows]

I'd have better choices of genetic material if I wanted to have a child if I, as a woman, picked about 12 partners. Now see, I have no intention of doing so, but based upon the ideology that woman MUST be impregnated by the most viril males *idea based upon slavery

It's sinful for women to deny sex to viril men. Isn't that really what it comes down to?

You have no choice according to any religion founded upon Christianity, Islam or Mormon. You are a body built to produce more people, even against your will, if it increases membership. You are livestock to be docile, submissive, and never to offend the fragile ego of a man of your faith.

Religion is toxic to women.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

1. Good point. I chose not to have kids.

Even as a child I knew I didn't want to have kids. I knew I wouldn't want to feel tied down to children, I knew I wouldn't want to limit my choices that way, and I wanted my life to have more freedoms. That didn't change. I still want no kids.

The result of not having kids has been that I've been had a freedom people haven't had, and I shirk at the idea of having had kids. HOWEVER, I've been accosted by I don't know how many parents questioning my "true motives." Like inquisitors, they feel that my having no kids somehow reflects upon them or something. I'm not sure. My true motive was only that, a desire to be free of being tied down to children. Because religion sets the tone so much, people find that to be selfish, and I've even been told so! I had never stopped long enough to analyze how my choice not to have kids has been selfish or to whom, but I suppose it's a belief with its basis in religion that women MUST have children, and that women's number 1 role *IS* to have kids. By refusing to accept that role, the religious view is that I have evaded the most important role religions have assigned to women.

[Aerows]

2. If you were male

You could have children and not be tied down, and not frowned upon, because you left them behind and could come around when it is convenient for you. It's that slutty woman's fault for not ... x y z.

It scares the dickens out of men when a woman decides she isn't interested in bearing offspring, and that's why I think this whole bit of anti-reproductive freedom has its roots. Men get scared because they can't produce offspring without a womb to carry it.

If you have a need to control, be in control and it is denied you, if you are irresponsible, well, you have a conniption fit. Many men that are irresponsible think control is automatically their right, and many of them throw a fit when they are not the controlling factor.

Like children. When they suddenly have to become responsible for the children that they bear, beyond them being emblems of their manhood, they lose their minds, because everything has to come along with it. Wife, Mother, children, all under the control of a male. Because for some reason, they have convinced themselves that they are the most successful of sexes in homo sapiens. Maybe they are. But Homo Sapiens can survive without a penis, but they can't survive without a womb, and they need to understand that.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

3. Thank goodness not ALL men are like that. My first husband was very upset with me

that I didn't want kids.

My 2nd husband was DELIGHTED! He was older, had had 4 kids, all of whom he loved but all of whom gave him huge headaches and major problems, and he practically kissed my feet when he found out I didn't want kids.

And yes, women are always the ones that end up with the greatest time, suffering, and financial responsibility for the kids.

[edgineered]

4. In agreement, when the last human alive is

lying in a hammock with charcoal on his ribs saying 'cut here -> X', no doubt it is the end of us.

Needless to say, most believe something is wrong with how I think...