So true. +100 |
this is the key! |
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This thread is just weird. Full of people who have no idea how IVF works, infertility and age.
Her husband left, because she couldn’t have children. He did not steal her fertility. Read the article. |
NP. I guess it shouldn't surprise me that some of you are so sheltered, you have no idea how other cultures work. My 14 year old cousin recently got caught on social media talking to boys. Totally normal behavior here in the US but strictly forbidden in our culture. Her parents told her they were going back to our country to visit. When she landed, they took her passport and told her she was not returning to the US. Last semester she was at regular American school and now she is in a rural village school in a developing country where she will be indoctrinated to behave according to our cultural expectations and norms. Do you really think she will feel as empowered as your daughters by the time she's an adult? There are many very effective ways to coerce and even force women and girls to behave. Speaking from hard experience. |
Good job with the irrelevant comparison of a child to a grown woman. |
Hi genius. Good job with understanding that some women are not empowered because their society is designed to strip them of their power starting from girlhood. My cousin has almost no chance of having what you all call agency. Do you think she's going to grow up to defy her family and have the same choices you can have? Here's a clue: No. She will do what her family says. She will marry who her parents choose. Then she will do as her husband says. That's how our system works. |
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Facebook friends with my ex wife now (email only is boundary out of respect to my wife who knows of her).
She left me back in the day and married someone who didn't want kids ( she wanted them). I remarried and have children with my wife. She regrets our split up and feels she was cheated out of having children even though she admits she did it to herself by marrying the dud. |
Here's a podcast about a girl who that happened to. I understand that you are angry. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/680/transcript |
why are you so hell bent on relating an irrelevant foreign cultural experience to what happens in society here, in the US. sorry you had to go through with what you do, but maybe seek some professional counseling to help you deal with that. |
NP and I agree. What does oppressive regime and religious cultural stories about the treatment of women in those countries leaving them with no education, free will or agency have to do with the very first world western post of "I wanted a baby and the idiot I married didn't give me one so it's his fault"? Way to derail a thread with extreme whataboutism. |
| Maybe you two PPs should read the entire thread. |
Exactly. Nobody's stealing sh*t. |
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| Boo hoo my fertility was stolen! I can't stand the whining. Just wait until you have something of actual value stolen like a watch or ring. Then see how much you cry |
That’s fantastic. |