The latest salvo in the social media war on CF women
"The female body is optimized for pregnancy and childbirth/pregnancy and childbirth does not damage your body in the slightest. You're just scaremongering because you want to be irresponsible/be a slut/contribute to the extinction of the human race/be a rabid feminist lonely cat lady/"
Categorically false. In exchange for the ability to walk upright, evolution gave human female physiology only just enough capability to 3D print and deliver grossly underdeveloped offspring (mostly) alive, with little allowance for the toll it takes on the mother's body.
This is why human babies are born completely unable to fend for themselves, or walk, or eat solid food.
This is why human babies sometimes get stuck in the birth canal and require surgical intervention for successful delivery.
This is why pregnant women's bodies are often horribly weakened by the entire process of pregnancy and delivery and why so many women straight up die during childbirth.
If women don't want any part of that, that's no one's business but their own.
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I knew a woman who was in her thirties and wanted to get her tubes tied but doctors refused to do it because she might change her mind.
Also about 30-60% of ALL conceotions will end in miscarriage. Miscarriage rate hovers at around 50% for most women who get pregnant and the odds increase the more a woman has miscarried before https://www.uclahealth.org/medical-services/obgyn/conditions-treated/recurrent-pregnancy-loss .The female human body is NOT optimized for conception.
(...This ALSO makes me wonnder about sperm cells from male humans. Like...what if there are sperm cells deliberately built by the testes so that they can make faux conceptions thst will more oft than not end in miscarriage and they were only kept in the male genome for evolutionary reasons that we havent been able to explain thoroughly. and deeply enough yet? DO we know this or not? )
And also the easiet argument against breeders who want people to have as msnyy children as possible is that all humans are entitled to their bodily autonkmy . If a man, woman, non-binary person or whoever chooses to not have any children cause they say iitll harm their bodily autonomy? Who are we to argue? Theyre a human adult. They are entitled to that body they were born with. The WHOLE of it. The entire body must be left intact as that human adult sees fit.
Thanks for this.
In biology we often talk about how evolution isn't about perfection, it is all about just good enough. You don't have to be the fastest runner, you just have to be fast enough to survive. You don't have to be the strongest, just strong enough. And when it comes to surviving it is not on an individual basis, it is about the genes surviving, so if only two out of 3 women survive childbirth but those survivors have more than 3 kids on average that is good enough.
Pregnancy is one of the most dangerous things a person can do in modern society and the dangers are downplayed to an insane degree. If we truly valued it then we would thank the people who carry babies to term by making sure they are supported and respected, along with turning research towards promoting health and wellbeing. Our choices display what we value, and in this society we don't value pregnancy, we appear to distain it.
Its like there is a disdain of children and non- males in general.
Like look at what I mean, when a male with a penis is born theere are far too few laws that protect the bodily integrity kf that male and he can be butchered or 'circumcised' as soon as he comes out of the womb for no other reason other thsn srbitrary religious reasons or because the quack of a 'doctor' sees circumcision as befitting for that baby. That happend to me for no reason. The same can happen to females and non-binary people upon birth to as they receive their own forms of mutilation.
And then as you said there is a dearth of research being done on how to improve the safety and satisfaction of a person who has a uterus and the babies they give biirth to too and a dearth of research on what socialistic programs and aid should be provided for them to heathily and happily raise that child alone if they choose.
Indeed, it is a really strange level of zero care given to those who supposedly are important and valued. Protection just means control most of the time.
I listened to an audiobook recently, I can't remember the name, but it was about intersex people. The level of horrible shit done to them is just insane. They are frequently just assigned to a sex based on the feelings of the doctor and then have their genitals surgically altered to match that decision. This decision is not based on gender presentation, given the almost total lack of any difference between male and female babies, but on what is easiest for the surgeon. They think "Would it be easier to make a penis it a vagina from what I see?" and then that is the answer for the gender of this child.
The part that really broke my heart was that they specifically don't tell the kids. They lie to them intentionally because it would cause "undue stress" and is just a bit too hard of a conversation. I personally think they also don't want the kids to consider their decision and think that maybe it was done wrong, assigning them to the incorrect gender.
Also, given all of the hard assigning to one of two genders, how could we possibly see a third gender or more appear? If every time biology gives us a non-binary answer they just "correct" it into a binary then of course there won't be examples of people who don't fit those genders, you "corrected" them all. In all honesty, I think it does meet many of the criteria of a genocide.
I think we can definitely say the LGBTQ+ community has had members killed by governments, serious bodily and mental harm to members of the group, deliberate infliction on the group calculated to cause physical distraction in whole or part (AIDS, blacklisting, intentional exclusion from society, medical malpractice, legal exclusions, chemical castration, etc), the banning of LGBTQ+ people having kids, adopting kids, forcible sterilisation, and of course the harsh measures of child protective services and related organisations around the world stealing kids from LGBTQ+ families and adopting them out. I think there has been and currently still is a broad genocide underway against the LGBTQ+ community and in another 50 years we may start to see some of the awareness applied now to the horrors of Israel's actions against Gaza or the USA and UK against, well, everyone, and eventually we may get recognition.
the funny thing ks that there genocides happening in most places on the planet today , people simply dont expand their .ind widely enough to recognise that they are being genocided.
Deliberately being impoverished by a few billionaires and politicins is genocide. Most dont see it that way....but its the truth
2SLGBTQIA+ people ALSO get genocided today as you pointed out
I kniw that th genocides in Sudan and Palestine are faaar faster and more deeliberate then what most of us 'Poors' experience today but one cannot lie that it feels genocidal what these billionaired and politicians are doing. And most people simply allow and assent them to do this too sadly...