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Reasons I am never having children

I want to read whenever I want to

I want to do edibles whenever I want to with only my career being something to consider

I want to be able to fuck off to Scotland or Australia or wherever the fuck I want to whenever I want to

I hate being fucking bothered

I genuinely am too selfish

I do not want kids and the fact that I don't would not make me a good mother

I do not want toddler art and have to store it

I hate the way toys looks

I love having a clean home that I am in control of

I want a PhD

I want flexibility in my career without having to worry about my kid's obscure health issue only being covered by my current employers health insurance

I want to learn languages and study obscure topics

I want to cook whatever the fuck I want and not have to worry about "oh little johnny doesn't like peppers" well I do so

I want to buy myself little sweets and eat them slowly over the course of a week and not have to try and hide them

I've dealt with food insecurity and I genuinely could not handle someone else eating "my" food. I'm not even sure I want a husband atp

I want time to invest in my own body and health, I want to stay healthy and active

I want to be able to only work part time and still support myself

They say you need to be prepared to have an autistic, queer, or disabled child and all of that is fine but if that bastard wants to play the drums some day?? HELL NO I get overstimulated just going to walmart you think I can handle that bs?? absolutely tf not

I hate being asked "what's for dinner?"

not getting stuck in a perpetual loop of washing dishes for a family, I've been the good domestic eldest first born evangelical daughter my whole life, I want something more, something different

If I am to enter into a marriage it WILL be an equal partnership where I am allowed to literally just read all afternoon sometimes if that is what I want, like I need a lot of space, even in a relationship and you think I have the capacity to love on and spend time with a child? nope, nope

THE PREGNANCY AND BIRTHING PROCESS FUCK NO

I want to wear sexy clothes and potentially pursue a sex therapist route and I want to feel like I have the freedom to do that openly

little ungrateful shits

I cannot deal with the sound of crying, not only because it is annoying but because I have childhood trauma and I just can't bear to hear it

I lost my childhood to an adult, I am not loosing my adulthood to a child

thank you for coming to my TED talk

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I have emitophobia if one of them little shits get sick we're both going to be throwing up all over the place

I want to watch whatever TV show I want to whenever

I want to protect my complete Doctor Who series DVD collection from tiny, grimy hands

I want to be able to watch my neighbor's kid whenever they need it, the single, childfree neighborhood auntie plays a very important role in our communities okay!!

I want to be able to leave the house and go paint nature whenever I want to

I really like swearing

Imagine working your ass off to send your kid to college and that fucker is failing every class (ㅠ﹏ㅠ)

dance recitals, early morning soccer games, buying all the gear for whatever sport/art/hobby they are into that season and THEN STORING IT noOOOOO

AND CLEANING IT

the never ending amount of laundry, my own is enough

Its not so much that I am lazy as much as it is I know I barely have the energy to take care of myself, let alone a whole another being

I get dissociative sometimes, like near fugue-state-can't-be-talked-to and that would be traumatizing for a kid. All things considered I'm fairly success for where I am in my career for my age but it is taking everything in me to keep that up and I do not have anything else to give.

I know that lots of people with trauma/disabilities have children and are great at it, but it's not for me and I am very aware of that

you really expect me to bring a child into the world of epst*in?? wtf?? It not like having kids would be that far in the future for me, I am 23, you think all this is just going to go away in the next 7-10 years?? Even if I could protect them, I don't want that stress

I do not cope well with stress, I pull out my hair and smack myself in the head to the point of serious injury. Thankfully I have not done any of that in several months but hey, that's only several months, ya know?

I don't like physical touch, or hugs, nor am I particularly skilled in the field of affection

I can't really even think of a "pro" to having kids, maybe some funny conversations once they are adults but my siblings are having kids and there will be kids in my neighborhood and that is enough for me. I could always teach highschool social studies or some shit if I really wanted to but I knowing I have an empty home to come home to every day would make it all possible.

I need my space, I need to be able to take a shower and listen to my jazz music and calmly, unbotheredly, shower for as long as I feel I can still pay my water bill.

I don't want to stress over how much water my kid is using

Especially if there is a water crisis due to AI, I'm not bringing a kid into this world just to be chronically and perpetually thirsty.

I want to go to the gym whenever I want to

I want to plan my own days and be free to do whatever with my schedule

work is already going to take some of my freedom and I think that is about all I am willing to give up, mostly because I am getting paid for it.

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I would hate that thing where a nurse/doctor comes into your room just after giving birth and they're like "Hey Mama!! We're just here to check on baby!!8(>ᗜ<)8" in that baby-talk voice like??? I'm a grown ass women who would have just gone through the most traumatic pain of my life and you're coming in here full of energy talking all baby-like as if that fucker can even encode memories yet?? HELL NO

also on that: as a psychologist I know that baby talk hinders vocabulary and speech development so stfu with that shit around my kid that I'm not having

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"Spinach, and all that crap..."

Listening in on my dad's phone call with a friend and they are talking about how "unmanly" a quiche is because it is a pastry with "spinach, and all that crap..." My dad has also said that based on the lifespans of the men in his family before him, that he probably only has about 20 more years left (expected to be about 70). The women in my mom's family tend to live much longer than 70, I think her Mammy lived to be like 90 something.

Then I remembered these 3 sociology facts:

Women are diagnosed with colorectal cancer at lower rates compared to men (https://www.cancer.org/cancer/types/colon-rectal-cancer/about/key-statistics.html)

Men consume less daily fiber on average. (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK589559/)

Increased daily fiber intake SIGNIFICANTLY lowers your risk of colorectal cancer (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4588743/).

Remember that patriarchal views are deadly to men as well. When it is seen as "feminine (derogatory)" to eat vegetables, you end up with whole male bloodlines loosing years of their lives. These ideas are reinforced throughout each generation. Feminism is for everybody, and so is quiche lmao

gym bro: "yo what are you hitting today?"

gym bro 2: "my fucking limit"

#leg day #arm day #gym #meme #humor #fypシ

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crack egg directly into hot pan, scramble while cooking

crack egg directly into cold pan, stir/scramble, then cook

crack egg into bowl, whisk or stir, THEN pour into pan and cook

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Or you use a plastic/silicon spatula?? Or a silicon whisk?? go to literally any dollar store they have shitty plastic/silicon kitchen utensils you can scramble eggs with without scratching up your pans

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Now that’s what I call

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@rpepperpotshipssciencebros please forgive me for this one

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Stainless steel doesn't get all scratched ┐(´ー｀)┌

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why ppl leave things in jesus hands knowing he got holes in them, is beyond me

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how did we lose the plot so hard with feminism and activism like seriously… are we forgetting that being kind and loving to the men and boys in your life, teaching them as kids if you are a parent to be kind respectful humans, and showing them how to be emotionally vulnerable and making a society in which it is safe to do so was like…. A huge part of feminism, dismantling patriarchal values, and creating a generation of loving men who are held accountable for their actions?

Why is it “kill all men yes even the trans ones and if you say otherwise you’re an MRA” and not “let’s maybe create a world that encourages good men.” Did we forget that feminism was supposed to be good for everyone and that the patriarchy harms men and boys as well?

Like maybe we should care about male loneliness and the male suicide rate BECAUSE MAYBE WED HAVE FEWER SOCIETAL PROBLEMS if 100% of the population wasn’t traumatized by gendered expectations and not being taught decent communication skills/how to be emotionally vulnerable. And definitely we would if fucking redpill echo chambers weren’t the places most willing to accept and nurture (groom into hateful ideology) young men.

The problem has never been men, cis or trans, being uniquely capable of evil the problem has always been the fact that cishet patriarchal culture encourages and rewards shitty behavior that makes everyone involved bitter and miserable and calls it masculinity.

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is anyone else their father’s female son

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I am, in fact, my father's prettiest son

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not on this account but I have been here since SuperWhoLocked was a thing and everyone wanted to see fully grown british men in flower crowns

#superwholock #old tumblr #do not cite the deep magic to me witch #i was there when it was written #always bring a banana to a party rose #bananas are good #doctor who #supernatural #bbc sherlock #gay shit #the tumblr of old #remember the purple eyes thing?

The future with AI

We don't talk enough about how our future is going to be shaped by our accessibility to water. Once it is scarce enough, only the wealthy will have access to clean, flowing water. Legislation will be written to draw the lines on where data centers can be built because the wealthy don't want that in their backyards. They have been doing this for centuries, let the mills and power plants be in the low income communities. They say "let them get asthma, let them miss school for allergies/mold/lung/breathing/asbestos/lead" whatever issues.

They have been systematically denying middle and lower income families from success by targeting our health. You think they aren't doing the exact same thing right now with these data centers? They aren't concerned about water because they know they can pay the heightened fee once supply dwindles and demand is up.

They do not care if people will die. They do not care that families will be without water. There is no other option, we have to stop this ai nonsense or we will be systematically pushed from our homes, our communities redrawn through hydro-geo lines with those who can afford water on one side and those who can't on the other.

Having a household plant will be a sign of significant wealth, think about that for a second.

What No Water Means

We need to stop AI, we're using more water and making it unclean and unsafe faster than we are able to replenish it- a water bankruptcy. I have been through 2 Richmond Water crises where our city did not have flowing water at all during the first one, and unclean water in the second one. Here is how miserable it was to be without steady flowing water for about a week:

no flushing the toilets OR showering, the whole city smelled horrendous

no washing dishes, at all, not even with dirty water. You go to turn on the sink and literally nothing comes out.

constantly thirsty because you are trying to ration what you have. What we did manage to collect just before the shut off was had to be boiled before every use due to being unclean.

no laundry, clothes start to get musky and itchy.

instant potatoes, mac and cheese, ramen, all that requires water. So much food but we couldn't eat any of it. Pasta, soups, grits, oatmeal, tea, COFFEE, none of it.

The heating in our building runs on water so we lost heating in the middle of January. We were so cold, had to stay in one room and not leave unless absolutely necessary.

no one went to work, the whole city's economy shut down for a week straight.

we had to figure out how much water to allocate to our pets, who have no real understanding of rationing.

the nauseating smell of the bathroom WILL seep into your dreams every night

the only food we could eat was basically out of cans, we ate like shit and felt like shit. Oh you like eating healthy and staying hydrated to manage acne and weight? not anymore. (Not having enough water makes you uncomfortably constipated btw)

no one wants to have intimate times with their partners during all this, so sex drive nose dove into the lowest of lows

having to boil water before consumption is crazy work, imagine you drink a glass of water just to find out it wasn't boiled long enough and then you throw up or shit yourself. You really want ecoli in your water?

you can't brush your teeth effectively, imagine the cavities. our only lasted a week but if it had gone on longer then oral hygiene was going to be a real problem.

No water/no clean water means= no more energy drinks, no more warm showers (find a cold lake or some shit), no more pasta, no more produce, no more laundry, no more indoor plumbing, no more clean dishes, no more dishwasher, no more heating/cooling, no more lemonade, no more broths, no more plump smooth skin. Basically everything we love will go away and life as we know it will be no more. It will never be the same. Not having water means rashes from poor hygiene, acne and sunken skin from dehydration, stomach aches, poor bowl movements, depleted energy, shitty food, economic halt. You think you are going to fulfill your dream of going to college/becoming a tattoo artist/being a musician/being a doctor/whatever have you is going to still be happening if you have to spend all your time looking for water? fuck no If we have no water, we have to limit our physical activity. Oh you like working out? You like figure skating? Not anymore, they're not going to keep that rink frozen. You will not have the energy to do the fun things you enjoy because your body will be depleted AND all your time will go to looking for clean water.

Seriously it is not worth it. Stop using chatgpt, stop using character ai, stop engaging with ai slop, turn off your ai overviews, call your legislatures. We have to do something about this. This is NOT the future I want.