Feminist Chick Who Doesn’t Want To Tell Women What To Do With Their Bodies Tells Women What To Do With Their Bodies

If you ever find yourself talking to a feminist, do your best to stay quiet. Give it five minutes. I guarantee you’ll catch her contradicting herself at least three times. You don’t have to say a word. She’ll do the work on her own.

Case in point.

We recently told you about how Chip and Joanna Gaines are expecting their 5th child. They already have four kids– Drake, 12, Ella, 11, Duke, 9, and Emmie Kay, 7.

Gaines party of 7.. (If you’re still confused.. WE ARE PREGNANT) @joannagaines

A post shared by Chip Gaines (@chipgaines) on Jan 2, 2018 at 7:08pm PST

Good for them! I LOVE big families. I’m nowhere near having kids right now (that would require getting married to someone I actually want to be with for the rest of my life), but I know I want AT LEAST three.

Apparently, that’s selfish and horrible of me. Feminists don’t want me to have as many kids as I’m able to properly care for. Self-described feminist Kristen Pyszczyk thinks she should be able to criticize people like Chip and Joanna for having too many kids. In other words, she has no problem telling a woman what to do with her body.

While having a child or five is a very personal choice, it’s also a choice that affects everyone who inhabits our planet. So while many people might find the backlash unwarranted, it’s actually a conversation we need to have in order to challenge our uncritical acceptance of the life-fulfillment-through-procreation story.

Population control is a fraught topic, and carries with it associations with eugenics and other nasty historical events. But we still need to talk about it, and people who reacted strongly to the Gaines’ pregnancy announcement know this on some level. It’s not an exaggeration to say that the survival of our species depends on it.

She goes on to say that we need to consider other factors, like climate change and overdue asteroid strikes. I am not making this up.

That said, I don’t think the possibility of an asteroid hitting the earth is reason enough to abstain from procreating freely. But if by some miracle we do end up colonizing another planet within the next century, the logistics of transporting eight billion people are staggering, unless we also invent a Star Trek-style transporter. So let’s lighten the load, friends.

Here’s where she attempts to justify telling other women what to do with their bodies.

Now, as a feminist, I tend to oppose any cultural conversation that involves telling a woman what to do with her body. But women have long been told that they need to have kids to have a meaningful life, and they are groomed for motherhood from a very early age.

But we don’t often hear arguments for alternatives to motherhood. Women need to be presented with options for a fulfilling life that don’t involve taking 20 years of their lives to care for offspring. Changing the narrative around motherhood should help to offset some of the cultural conditioning we receive throughout our lives.

In the global West, where the environmental footprint of one person is far larger than in developing nations, it’s crucial that we begin to present all people with alternatives to the traditional nuclear family. This inevitably involves calling out people who have kids like they’re going out of style.

Shame is a powerful tool for changing behaviour: it’s how we introduce new and existing social conventions. It’s unfortunate that Chip and Joanna bore the brunt of changing attitudes, but let’s learn from the reaction and examine our own actions.

If it sounds like this feminist wants to snuff out motherhood, it’s because this feminist wants to snuff out motherhood.

Here’s the thing: Motherhood is a beautiful thing that MOST WOMEN desire. I’m a single woman right now and very happy with my life as it is, but I ABSOLUTELY want my own family some day. No– not because society tells me I SHOULD want one. It’s just part of us. Most of us naturally crave that. It’s a beautiful thing– a beautiful thing grumpy feminists want to shame us for because they want everyone else to be as miserable as they are.

God bless my parents who had nine children and never believed such idiocy! https://t.co/GUgT2XL8Qt

— Father Bernie Healey (@FatherHealey) January 13, 2018

So our survival as a species depends on not having children? Am I the only one who sees the flaw with this thinking? #sundaymorning https://t.co/NzBZPQmNkG

— Neil M (@Neil10790465) January 13, 2018

It’s apparent you support a woman’s right to choose when it comes to abortion, however, if she chooses to have multiple children, then not so much, so it’s really not about a woman’s right to choose.

— Renée Timpe (@ReneeTimpe) January 14, 2018

I cannot believe we need to “have a conversation” about how irresponsible it is to have multiple children. If a married couple can financially and emotionally support however many kids into becoming productive adults then more power to them! I hope they have 10 kids. #ridiculous https://t.co/rnARun2j04

— Emily Sisco (@siscodisco) January 13, 2018

Liberal logic “We should all be pro-choice except for when you actually procreate. You should discourage that.” https://t.co/K62iwXHLvP

— steven gavel (@stevegavel) January 13, 2018

“Kristen Pyszczyk is a writer and IT communications professional living in Toronto. Her areas of focus include feminism, mental health, addiction, pop culture and digital media.” pic.twitter.com/lOlK6rOI7A

— Ashley Rae (@Communism_Kills) January 13, 2018

Allow me to translate that for you: SHE CRAY.

We live in a world where it’s cool to kill as many babies as we want but deemed virulent to have them. Never has any society been more wrong about anything. https://t.co/LFUX1VzXe8

— Todd Erzen (@DeaceOnline) January 13, 2018

I’ll call myself out. My wife and I are proud members of the irresponsible. Glad our fifth one granted us membership in such illustrious club. https://t.co/V6ll3N8ycs

— Derrick G. Jeter (@derrickjeter) January 13, 2018

Which one of my six should I not have had? The Paramedic, entrepreneur, artist, or college students? The baby is only 12 so we’ll have to see if that life was worth having right?

— Elena LaVictoire (@mrsL) January 13, 2018

Yes. That is how you feminist.

Procreation is becoming a global public health concern, rather than a personal decision. So when people do irresponsible things like having five children, we absolutely need to be calling them out.

No. Feminists need to get over themselves and stop trying to make turn their emotionally-driven opinions into policy points. They’re not worried about the “greater good.” They’re domineering jerks.

h/t Twitchy