On being a breeder:
Dec. 24th, 2005 09:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fuzzybluemonkeys
As a heterosexual, I'd like to object to being called a breeder. Not because I find the term offensive--I actually think it's pretty funny and apt in most cases--but because I personally do not intend to breed. Ever.
As an act of kindness, because I would not want to inflict my mental illness and IBS genes on any child.
As a personal philosophy, because I'd like to take care of the children that already exist before I start making new ones.
And as an act of selfishness, because there is just no way I am adding being pregnant and miserable for 9 months on top of all my other dysfunctions. And I don't care if both a mother and 2 and a mother of 3 have said that IBS is more painful than childbirth. I have fulfilled my pain quota for my next 10 lives already and I'll have fulfilled the pain quota for the next 10 before I have shuffled off this mortal coil without ever being pregnant.
At this point I don't even want kids, but if I ever do, I will not be breeding them.
As an act of kindness, because I would not want to inflict my mental illness and IBS genes on any child.
As a personal philosophy, because I'd like to take care of the children that already exist before I start making new ones.
And as an act of selfishness, because there is just no way I am adding being pregnant and miserable for 9 months on top of all my other dysfunctions. And I don't care if both a mother and 2 and a mother of 3 have said that IBS is more painful than childbirth. I have fulfilled my pain quota for my next 10 lives already and I'll have fulfilled the pain quota for the next 10 before I have shuffled off this mortal coil without ever being pregnant.
At this point I don't even want kids, but if I ever do, I will not be breeding them.
