There are no words. There are no fucking words for this stupidity.
So women should have babies at fourteen but men are still children at twenty-six?
She just does not understand the concept of inner life, inner development at all does she? That people, even women, need to go through that radical process of becoming known as being a teenager. We need that revolution, otherwise nothing in the world would ever change. And we need to concentrate on ourselves while we are doing it.
Aaargh, it's far, far too late at night for a coherent response to this but I'm too angry to sleep.
Having sex and having babies is what young women are about, and their instincts are suppressed in the interests of society's timetable.
I clearly missed that memo. Is she just pig ignorant of the fact that globally as education increases, the age of having a first child goes up? That the wealthier one is the longer one puts off starting a family? From this one can reasonably deduce that the minute a woman has any other choice available than breeding, she takes it with both hands.
And lets not even go into the increased depression rates among teenage mothers, increased rates of family breakdown, of children taken into care, of substance use issues and deep, grinding poverty. Lets not mention about cervical cancer rates going up for women sexually active in their early teens, of really young mothers being at greater risk of birth complications, the fact that women who have sex later generally report greater fulfilment, that it's really important to know who you are before you take responsibility for another life... I could be here all day.
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Date: 2010-03-05 02:22 am (UTC)So women should have babies at fourteen but men are still children at twenty-six?
She just does not understand the concept of inner life, inner development at all does she? That people, even women, need to go through that radical process of becoming known as being a teenager. We need that revolution, otherwise nothing in the world would ever change. And we need to concentrate on ourselves while we are doing it.
Aaargh, it's far, far too late at night for a coherent response to this but I'm too angry to sleep.
Having sex and having babies is what young women are about, and their instincts are suppressed in the interests of society's timetable.
I clearly missed that memo. Is she just pig ignorant of the fact that globally as education increases, the age of having a first child goes up? That the wealthier one is the longer one puts off starting a family? From this one can reasonably deduce that the minute a woman has any other choice available than breeding, she takes it with both hands.
And lets not even go into the increased depression rates among teenage mothers, increased rates of family breakdown, of children taken into care, of substance use issues and deep, grinding poverty. Lets not mention about cervical cancer rates going up for women sexually active in their early teens, of really young mothers being at greater risk of birth complications, the fact that women who have sex later generally report greater fulfilment, that it's really important to know who you are before you take responsibility for another life... I could be here all day.
I'll see what I can do.
Thank you, but please don't put yourself out.