• velma@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    I don’t think most women wanted to be pregnant back to back like that then.

    My grandmother had 16 children. It destroyed her.

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      4 months ago

      Yeah definitely the elephant in the room when this comes up. Women didn’t have a choice and they were impregnated over and over even if it killed them.

      • IPeaceInYourFace@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        You always have a choice. I see a lot of women applauding for feminism… But I never see them at the rally’s.

        Take some responsibility. If you’re getting married and constantly plowed because you can’t think for yourself, that’s on you.

        Having said that, humans are going to be human, so it’s nothing particularlt unnatural.

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          4 months ago

          I see a lot of women applauding for feminism… But I never see them at the rally’s.

          At what kind of rally’s are you? All protests I go to are full of women fighting for theirs and others rights.

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      4 months ago

      I’m a tenth child and my mom did it of her own volition. It was like being a dog that nobody wanted to take care of.

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    4 months ago

    I came from a big family like that. My mother had 13 children and 11 of us survived long enough to get married and start our own families. Lost one sister to fibroids and another to gang violence.

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      4 months ago

      My grandmother had her first child out of wedlock at the age of 14, her second child (my mom) out of wedlock with a different father at the age of 16, and her third child out of wedlock with yet another different father at the age of 17. And this was all in the 1930s. I strongly suspect grandma really enjoyed the sex – otherwise, why go through all the social approbation and abandonment by her family that went along with it?

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    4 months ago

    Before modern medicine, often people would have a ton of kids because they would frequently die.

    • velma@sh.itjust.works
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      4 months ago

      Isn’t it funny to laugh at women in tough situations through very little choice of their own?

      Peak comedy, right?