Daily Mail offers a sneak peak at 2007’s elegant new “Hey, shouldn’t you be breeding?” talking point.
Published by Kyso Kisaen October 24th, 2006 in Feminism, Shame on you for being a woman, "Science"So you’re a modern feminist -a selfish, man-hating, family-despising, money-grubbing, over-educated, careerist, emasculating bitch, and life is good, yes? You managed to get a decent job in marketing despite your Women’s Studies degree, you found something with a penis (we hesitate to call it a man, but a feminist has to take what she can get, ya know) that is willing to share its life with you and you’re thinking that maybe in four or five years when that promotion comes through and you and your heterosexual lifemate finally own some property maybe you’ll settle down and have 2, maybe 2.5 kids.
Sure, you’ve heard that it gets harder to concieve as you get older, but as smarter people than you have said, it’s not like you go through menopause at 27. And you’re just the kind of career-driven, over-agressive, too-masculine slut that you’ll play them odds if it means you can have it all!
But wait! What if those odds weren’t yours to play?
Women who delay having children could be condemning their daughters to the heartbreak of infertility, warn researchers.
A new study suggests older mothers may bequeath a devastating legacy by passing on biological flaws that will make it more difficult for their own daughters to get pregnant.
Now, no one can tell you how to live your own life, and no one can stop you from sabotoging your own chances at the ultimate feminine fulfillment. But to fuck over your own hypothetical daughter…well, it’s your choice, but you know, if you loved her, you’d have her about five years earlier than you planned and damn the consequences.
Lord Robert Winston has also warned that women are sacrificing maternal happiness for career success. He said it was a “social problem” that could be remedied by measures encouraging young women to take time out from their careers.
They’re not even trying anymore, are they? Why don’t they just hang onto their girlfriends’ ankles and beg them to stop cutting their balls off?
It was so much easier when a 20-to-40-year-old guy could just make an arrangement with the family and walk off with their 15-year-old daughter.
She was too young to put up much of a fight, she was at prime breeding age, and it was almost like pedophilia, but all legal…
Oh, for the good old days…
I must be stupid or something - the article did also mention the avg age of fathers whose daughters were in the study was 32…the mothers avg age was 28.
So who’s fault is it exactly?
I’m just easily stupified at the idea that they’re overlooking something so obvious. Or I must be stupid. I know, I know, get on the patriarchy train. Geez
Dramatic findings from a US study of almost 80 women undergoing fertility treatment shows those who failed to conceive had older mothers than those who succeeded.
Wow! Almost 80 women! I’m convinced.
They were all already undergoing fertility treatment, too, which means that all we have is the slight (25 vs. 28 average maternal age) correlation among a small, unrepresentative sample of women. For all we know, the reason people with older mothers have a harder time getting pregnant is because their mothers had a harder time getting pregnant for the same underlying reason, and so didn’t finally get pregnant until they were older.
But anything to remind women of their place, no matter how contrived and ludicrous, is worth it to these people, I guess.
I’m convinced.
Me too. That sample size obviously makes perfect statistical sense. They took that n=30 being optimal argument to heart.
So the argument is now “Don’t have sex, contraception is evil, abortion is murder, but babies are necessary at as young an age as possible, so be sure to neglect the monetary aspects of having a child and get married as young as possible.”
GAAAAAAAAAAAH!
What I love about these articles is they seem to assume that the issues with having a baby after a certain age only happen if it’s your first. First baby at 32? She’s doomed! 5th baby at 32? Just fine.
5th? Hell! That’s barely half a quiver… Slackers…
The Daily Mail is a rag. It’s a device for broadcasting and focussing the anger of Middle England. From what I gather, I’d say citing it is like citing the New York Post. What’s worrying is that it’s the second most popular paper after The Sun.
I wouldn’t say she’s “citing” it so much as mocking it. That it’s the 2nd most popular paper in England means that it’s certainly nothing to just ignore.
He said it was a “social problem” that could be remedied by measures encouraging young women to take time out from their careers.
Like, what? Mandatory maternal leave? Daycare options?
Oh, you mean wasting money guilting and scarying women.
I wouldn’t wipe my child-free ass with the Daily Mail. This is exactly the kind of pap that I expect them to print.
It was so much easier when a 20-to-40-year-old guy could just make an arrangement with the family and walk off with their 15-year-old daughter.
She was too young to put up much of a fight, she was at prime breeding age, and it was almost like pedophilia, but all legal…
Oh, for the good old days…
Why? did they make mormonism illegal now?
The daily mail is, aside from ANOTHER arm of the murdoch media (along with the sun), is also ridiculously well known for batshit craziness of the evopsych/Kinder, Kicher, Kurch variety to the point where one of hte best comedian/artress/songwriter/singer/piano playing feminists in the world (AKA Victoria Wood) had the slightly weird old lady character in her brilliant show dinnerladies whip out some utterly insane line such as “Oh yes that’s right, women can’t read maps, and men can’t get interested in headboards, I read it in the daily mail” every single episode.
Also, the operative word in “2nd most popular newspaper in England” is “england”, an area populated by less than 10 million knuckle dragging idiots who make the citizenry of new jersey seem articulate and level headed. It’s a country that bans the use of sprinklers nationally (to conserve water) while areas of the country are actively flooding. There are people in birmingham who make george bush seem like a witty intelligent guy.
Like, what? Mandatory maternal leave? Daycare options?
What kind of pussy-ass suggestions are those? You have to attack the real problem of bitches competing with men for jobs instead of staying in the kitchen where they belong.
I’m not saying the Daily Mail is the British newspaper of record, here. I’m just giving y’all a heads-up on a fun new twist to the “have babies at 22 or die alone” song and dance that we are all bored with. Like swamp gas, this kind of shit starts deep in the muck and bubbles up.
R. Mildred, thanks for scaring me even more…
“There are people in birmingham who make george bush seem like a witty intelligent guy”
I guess that helps explain Tony Blair. At some point my head’s gonna explode just like Marc’s…
Ooh found you from pandagon and bookmarked. Here’s the comment I left there, think they’ll post it?
“My mother was 45 when I was born, and my dad was 52. I was the ninth child. The twins born 2 years after me both drowned, there were so many kids everybody thought someone else was looking after them.
I’m usually on at least 3 types of birth control: pill, temperture rhythm, and husband wears condoms (just like my mom did!), but I’ve still had to have 4 abortions.
There’s lots of kids running around here, just adopt if you can’t have kids. Oh, you’re talking about white babies.”