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You are normally "way more harsh to people" for making the very personal decision as to whether they will have children? You do realize just how offensive you
by hodder 10y ago
You are normally "way more harsh to people" for making the very personal decision as to whether they will have children?
You do realize just how offensive you are being? Whether other people have children is not for you to decide or deride.
- pc86 10y ago> I'd put this up there with racism, sexism and other forms of discrimination. This is probably the most offensive thing in this thread. You are allowed to disagree with other people's choices. You are allowed to voice that disagreement, even publicly. People are allowed to think you're stupid for caring whether or not someone else has children. Nothing about any of that is even remotely "discrimination" and to imply it's anywhere in the same universe as racism or sexism is offensive to real problems everywhere.
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- hodder 10y agoI'd argue that being harsh to women for their reproductive choices is a key component of modern sexism. Discrimination has a variety of forms.
- imesh 10y agoWhat do women have to do with it?
- aisofteng 10y agoIt takes a man and a woman to have a child. Stop trying to shoehorn cries of sexism into everything.
- hodder 10y agoSure. And women and men can both obviously face discrimination over their reproductive choices. The discrimination just disproportionally falls on women. Ie. less likely to be hired because she may have children. Expected behaviours and judgements if she doesn't.
- babuskov 10y agoI wrote "...because it's too much of an effort" was a really selfish reason. If you decide not to have kids on some grounds, I don't mind at all. It amazes me how shallow has people's attention on HN become. Not even bothering to read the whole sentence. I feel like I'm on Reddit.