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to think that women should just accept that they are selfish and that everything they do is wrong?

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youmustbekidding · 30/01/2016 15:43

Let's look at the objective facts. If you're single but want to be married, you're all about trapping some poor man and therefore selfishly denying him his freedom, if you're single but don't want to be married, you're a ball-breaker, poss a lesbian, and definitely a man-hater and selfishly unnatural. If you're sexually active on top of that, then you're also a slut. If you want to have kids, you are selfishly listening to your own biological needs; if you don't want to have kids you are selfishly prioritising three trips to long-haul destinations each year over your biological imperative and anyway who will wipe your arse when you're 93? Having kids in itself opens up an entire vista of selfishness - if you're young when you have them, you're irresponsible and selfishly thinking of your own gratification over the financial security of your offspring. If you wait until you're older then you will selfishly bleed the nhs dry single-handedly due to the multiple medical complications you will encounter, plus you will probably die before your kids reach the age of 5 which is of course, you guessed, selfish.

And it doesn't stop there. If you have one child only, they will be weird and introverted and possibly be a serial killer. You have therefore raised a serial killer due to your selfish desire to take control of your fertility. More than one, and don't you know that there's a population crisis, and how dare you add more humans to the already suffering and overcrowded planet, you selfish bitch. If you breastfeed any of your one or many children, you're doing it for yourself really, but if you bottle-feed you might as well inject them with heroin.

As soon as you've pushed the baby out of your vagina (or had him/her cut through your stomach, which is obviously what the really selfish women do, due to them selfishly opting for major abdominal surgery which leaves them unable to pick up so much as a measuring jug for six weeks due to being too posh to push), the fun starts all over again with considering whether or not go to back to work. This is obviously less of a consideration for men, who are either providing for their family (heroes) or looking after their family (heroes). If a woman wants to provide for her family, she is a cold-hearted bitch career woman and nobody knows why she even had children if all she wanted to do is farm them out to strangers. On the other hand, if she wants to stay at home, she's a sponger and why the fuck did she bother going to university anyway.

Anything I've missed?

OP posts:
PacificDogwod · 30/01/2016 21:29

I wouldn't blame feminists; Bill Bailey did try his best to get us all sticking our fingers up our bums.

Did he?! Shock

That is inspired Grin

Maybe the problem is more all the judgmental fucks out there rather than women (or men) getting it wrong whatever they do?

Although double standards clearly are alive and well:
Man likes a drink = alcoholic
Woman likes a drink = a layette/'asking for it'/easy lay

Man fathering children he cannot support = feckless
Woman bearing children she cannot support = whore

It's more nasty towards women IMO.

MadeMan · 30/01/2016 21:44

"Man likes a drink = alcoholic"

I think as well - Man doesn't drink = previously an alcoholic.

PacificDogwod · 30/01/2016 21:45

Or 'man doesn't drink' = less of a man Hmm

ouryve · 30/01/2016 21:57

YANBU.

Don't forget that, despite being far too harsh on your kids, you'll be spoiling them by pandering to their every whim.

dlnex · 30/01/2016 22:06

I am very selfish. All of the OP, plus:
This morning I made a landline telephone call to tsb telephone banking with a query, as I am irresponsible in not opening the bank statements they so kindly send, and too stoneage to do internet banking. It's all part of my very selfish female nature, I apologised to the nice lady on the telephone for bothering her, and wished her a nice weekend.

missingmumxox · 31/01/2016 03:46

Casting my you are not wrong op vote.

And
I am happy wife with amazingly suportive husband. But it is the outside stuff

HermioneJeanGranger · 31/01/2016 05:09

Agree with feckitall completely.

MistressDeeCee · 31/01/2016 05:21

Post is spot on. Doesn't make for nice reading, but true all the same. Men judge women, women judge women

Dumdedumdedum · 31/01/2016 06:06

Very funny post, OP - but unfortunately, shockingly and depressingly true in some cases. Why did that man from Dragons' Den get off scot-free with his wife beside him after having admitted having had sex with a 13 year old he found on a "Sugar Daddy" site? Because it was the girl's fault for looking like a 17 year old? WTF?

KERALA1 · 31/01/2016 08:52

Liberating though. If you can't win whatever you do the only response is to look straight on and do your own thing fuck what anyone else thinks.

Like most people have been on the receiving end of this crap - particularly for my decision to have a few years as a sahm.

Theydontknowweknowtheyknow · 31/01/2016 10:12

A dramatic OP, and whilst those views aren't ones that bombard us daily most of us have heard at least some of those points of view at some point in our lives, enough to be affected and made to feel bad about the choices we've made.

I think that is the point OP is making.

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