Oct 25, 2015
Telling a woman who says she doesn’t want kids “You’ll change your mind” is really shitty because
it’s assigning motherhood to a person who is explicitly rejecting it
it’s reinforcing gender roles
it makes motherhood out to be something you do because you have to, not because you genuinely want to
it’s infantilizing to make it seem like she can’t make decisions about her own life
it’s invalidating of her desires which she is capable of knowing and communicating
it’s telling a grown woman that you know what she wants better than she does
