Why do people insist on pestering those who don't have children like there's something wrong with us?
31-35, F
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Tatsumi · 31-35, M
20,000 year old instincts leave a feeling in people that human population is important. And women are the key to population growth. E.g. If you have 1 very happy man and 100 women, that's 100 babies. If you have 1 women and 100 men, that's 1 baby.
The extra social value that females have is due to having fewer--thus more valuable--reproductive resources.
So. If you refuse to have children, you're viewed as inhibiting human survival. It's more of a big deal for women, as previously mentioned, as sperm is infinite, thus effectively worthless, like any effectively infinite resource.
This is also why slutshaming exists pretty much primarily for women and not with men. People have an instinctual revulsion towards women who are careless with their eggs. Likewise, women who do not use their eggs are pressured to use them, but not viewed as horribly as sluts, because they aren't actively wasting eggs. E.g. slut has sex with subpar man, gets preggers with subpar baby, loses 9 months of reproduction time.
Males have no social value, unless they create it through occupation or accomplishment, incidentally
The extra social value that females have is due to having fewer--thus more valuable--reproductive resources.
So. If you refuse to have children, you're viewed as inhibiting human survival. It's more of a big deal for women, as previously mentioned, as sperm is infinite, thus effectively worthless, like any effectively infinite resource.
This is also why slutshaming exists pretty much primarily for women and not with men. People have an instinctual revulsion towards women who are careless with their eggs. Likewise, women who do not use their eggs are pressured to use them, but not viewed as horribly as sluts, because they aren't actively wasting eggs. E.g. slut has sex with subpar man, gets preggers with subpar baby, loses 9 months of reproduction time.
Males have no social value, unless they create it through occupation or accomplishment, incidentally