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WCDT: 2352-2356 (31 Dec. 2012-4 Jan. 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Akima:
--- Quote from: Black Sword on 02 Jan 2013, 06:38 ---Anti-children attitudes make me go :psyduck:
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I'm not anti-children. I'm anti the massively unbalanced social and economic impact of having children on women. There is not much we can do about the fundamentals of biology, or the way the still-considerable medical risks of child-bearing fall almost exclusively on women, but economic policy and social status are matters of choice. When I read articles like this, and this, having kids really does not seem a good bet.
MillionDollar Belt Sander:
No comic today?
MillionDollar Belt Sander:
And somehow by posting that I FIXED IT. :-o
Barmymoo:
This might be better in the DISCUSS forum but still...
--- Quote from: The first article Akima linked ---Women are making the wrong choices early in their careers
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Now that, I find offensive. I am one of those women making a career choice that will lead to a fairly poorly-paid job, and hopefully I will be taking time out from that job in order to raise children. It is the right choice for me. I'm 100% behind the idea that women ought to be paid the same amount as men (and that traditionally "female" jobs like, for instance, midwifery, teaching, administrative work and shop work should be paid at an equal level to comparable "male" jobs like being a doctor, construction, being a solicitor and accountancy) but I find that sentence to be suggesting that it is women's own fault if they don't make a shitton of money because they made the wrong choice. I should not have to choose between doing a job I would be good at and enjoy, and having a decent wage.
Border Reiver:
Diapers - nothing more fun than watching someone change a newborn's diaper for the first time.
Newbie: "This isn't so tough, don't know what the problem is...Oh My Sweet?!? This kid just drinks milk - where the hell did all this green stuff come from?!?"
Baby: "Goo" (while looking so cute and helpless that it is nearly impossible to contemplate running away in terror)
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