This whole thing about the couple sharing they are trying to start their family comes as awfully american and cliché.
Is this a real thing in the US?
And if it is… WHY?!
What is the need for it? Is it some sort of twisted social ritual? A perverse bragging? Why not just do the deed, keep to yourself, and after 9 months present the evidence you’ve been rutting like animals in heat?
Feels to me like a very normal thing to share with people I’m very close with, just sorta sharing life updates and chatting (“I’m looking for a job”, but weightier). But yeah would be really weird outside of that.
But also, no argument about the cliche lol. The one area of human sexuality the US is apparently less prudish about - specifically intending to make babies!
Certainly some strong opinions and even hostility from some folks, but for myself I don’t find it very fruitful to minimize the suffering caused by isolation the way you’ve done.
It’s a big deal to experience, it’s a chronic thing many find hard or impossible to escape (whatever your opinions on the reasons for that), and I think it’s pretty gross bordering on cruel to dunk on folks that might be experiencing something so painful.
So, I can’t decide if you’re directing this at me or just phrasing things unclearly. I’m not in the demographic you’re talking about, at all, never really have been.
I’m expressing sympathy for people who are lonely and who don’t want to be, because the way you phrased your previous set of complaints sounded, among other things, like you mocking people experiencing that. I get that people are being reactive jerks. It’s cuz they’re hurting. I’m not, so the things they are saying about it really don’t bother me (as you can see elsewhere in the thread).
The fact that you’re just doubling down, saying my POV is “stupid”, you’ve shown me all I need to see here. I’m not angry at you, I just think you have some gross views.
And btw, having neurodivergence(s) doesn’t just magically qualify you to speak for others.
This whole thing about the couple sharing they are trying to start their family comes as awfully american and cliché.
Is this a real thing in the US?
And if it is… WHY?!
What is the need for it? Is it some sort of twisted social ritual? A perverse bragging? Why not just do the deed, keep to yourself, and after 9 months present the evidence you’ve been rutting like animals in heat?
Feels to me like a very normal thing to share with people I’m very close with, just sorta sharing life updates and chatting (“I’m looking for a job”, but weightier). But yeah would be really weird outside of that.
But also, no argument about the cliche lol. The one area of human sexuality the US is apparently less prudish about - specifically intending to make babies!
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Certainly some strong opinions and even hostility from some folks, but for myself I don’t find it very fruitful to minimize the suffering caused by isolation the way you’ve done.
It’s a big deal to experience, it’s a chronic thing many find hard or impossible to escape (whatever your opinions on the reasons for that), and I think it’s pretty gross bordering on cruel to dunk on folks that might be experiencing something so painful.
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So, I can’t decide if you’re directing this at me or just phrasing things unclearly. I’m not in the demographic you’re talking about, at all, never really have been.
I’m expressing sympathy for people who are lonely and who don’t want to be, because the way you phrased your previous set of complaints sounded, among other things, like you mocking people experiencing that. I get that people are being reactive jerks. It’s cuz they’re hurting. I’m not, so the things they are saying about it really don’t bother me (as you can see elsewhere in the thread).
The fact that you’re just doubling down, saying my POV is “stupid”, you’ve shown me all I need to see here. I’m not angry at you, I just think you have some gross views.
And btw, having neurodivergence(s) doesn’t just magically qualify you to speak for others.
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Religious obligation to breed.
The way you put it, it made me think about the fetish, not the act of procreation.