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Originally Posted by Ronin4hire
You think women who won't have children are being "selfish"?
No offense... but I'd call a woman's decision, whatever it was as "none of your business". Do what feels right for you. I find it ironic that you complain about certain women shunning motherhood, when all you're doing is dismissing the alternative.
Gender roles existed for millenia because they were necessary for society at the time to function. The need to conform to many of them has gradually become obsolete. Simple as that.
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First, I'll say this: You can't fight biology.
Now before you get fired up, listen well.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with women going out and getting jobs. There is absolutely nothing wrong with a woman's decision to not have children (though due to bio-chemistry, she'll probably want one sooner or later). I wouldn't say that such a decision is 'selfish', though I could make a case for it being 'unnatural'.
The fact remains that biologically, women are MEANT to have children and nurture them--why else would they be endowed by god or selection to have a womb and breasts? So, biologically, gender roles will ALWAYS exist. You can't change that. It will always be the woman's role to birth and nurture children.
Whether she fulfills that role or not is up to her.
Personally, if I were a woman, I wouldn't fulfill that role. I don't have enough patience to raise kids... or sanity. Believe me, making that decision would be for the benefit of mankind XD .
In Japan, it seems that many women are deciding to not have children and instead pursue a career-driven life. Okay, that's fine! The birthrate now may be down, but remember that a lot of women are compelled to have children at some time in their life--biochemistry, like I said. So most of the ones that are refusing to have kids now will probably have at least one later on, so I don't see what all the fuss is about it.
And just a little interjection.... I really hate how the feminist movement in the Western countries has totally trashed the male identity. Role, fine. Identity, not fine. It's gone so far that a lot of men today don't know how to actually be a man.
Damn, someone is going to challenge me to say what a man should be.... Shit, if you don't know, there's no way I can explain it to you. I can't bring in biology too much, because everyone always says it's irrelevant or they get pissed off. And I can't bring in religion because I apparently do that too much (*winks at noodle*), and that gets totally subjective anyway.
How about this: A man should be everything that a woman is not. There. Simple. I hope.
Oh, and Vice-Versa (A woman should be everything that a man is not).