Not sure why but the “having sex, no matter what precautions you take or agreements you make with your partner in advance, obligates you to two decades of at-least-financial-and-possibly-more support” position is consistently a hot-button issue more than any other.
Maybe it’s related to the fact that people haven’t properly internalized that we have easy access to contraception and abortion nowadays (okay, we should have them and authoritarians should get their grubby paws the cuck off from other people’s bodies and that includes socio-cultural coercion as well as state power although just getting the state to cuck off would be a damn fine start) so having sex doesn’t obligate one to rent their body to a non-consensual occupier and thus the Worst Outcome for one party has fallen a lot lower than it used to be when the system has established, and zero-sum biases of identity politics have prevented them from realizing that symmetrically reducing the other party’s Worst Outcome would be the Only Morally Justifiable Decision.
Also, everyone loves making someone else pay for stuff they want to see done, therefore they go hunting for people who have interacted with the problem and upon whom the Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics lets them assign the costs so they don’t have to bear the responsibility of taking care of innocent otherwise possibly insufficiently ofcaretaken children from their own tax dollars.
3 months ago · tagged #in which promethea is very happy that they are infertile #steel feminism · 8 notes · source: shlevy · .permalink