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[–] simsalabim@lemmy.world 39 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Remember kids, willful childlessness is the newspeak for vasectomy and histerectomy.

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 10 points 5 hours ago

Any birth control

[–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 10 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I'm getting a hysterectomy next month and I'm pumped. Having a uterus is the fucking worst.

[–] Case@lemmynsfw.com 10 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

My wife would agree. She has.... so many womanly issues, but can't find anyone to yank the damn thing out.

She wants no children.

I, her husband, had a vasectomy before we ever met.

We have no use for the damn thing and it just causes so many problems.

[–] nieminen@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Along with the other commenter, if you're near southern Illinois, I can point you towards the doctor my wife used.

Also here's this: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Djia_WkrVO3S4jKn6odNwQk7pOcpcL4x00FMNekrb7Q/edit?usp=sharing

It's a list of doctors openly willing to do tubals. They might also do hysterectomies.

[–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 1 points 4 minutes ago

My doctor is on that list! I don't wanna openly say who she is because I don't wanna completely doxx myself, but I can reply to any DMs with her name if anyone wants a Pa recommendation. She's great. First gynecologist that hasn't tried to pressure me into wanting kids.

[–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

If you are in Pa or willing to drive there, DM me. I can send you the info of my doctor. She's really open minded and is one of the few in the state that will sterilize women (taking out the fallopian tubes) just because they want it.

I have recurring endometriosis and we've just decided that a total hysterectomy to handle the issue for good is the best next step.

[–] andallthat@lemmy.world 8 points 10 hours ago

hey, I target porn too! Lots and lots of porn!

[–] goldenquetzal@lemmy.world 33 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Can these fucking Christian extremists stop ruining everyone else's lives

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago

We all generally let them because we don't like confronting people in public spaces because everyone is too insecure about social perception.

[–] DannyMac@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 hours ago

Inscribed on their swords and shields are "Won't somebody please think of the children!"

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world -1 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Broken clock, yadda yadda...

[–] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

I don't think that phrase means what you think it means

[–] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 hours ago

the sports gambling is getting out of hand, yeah

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 139 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I've never know a happy Southern Baptist. I'm not interested in being as miserable as them.

[–] olympicyes@lemmy.world 18 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Do you know the best way to keep a Southern Baptist from drinking all of your beer on your fishing trip? Invite a second Southern Baptist.

[–] nieminen@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Heh, heard that one with Mormon instead

[–] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 hours ago

Cheerful Baptist, really. I think its on accounta all the soda.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 22 points 22 hours ago

The only Southern Baptists I know were really into demonstrative shows of family unity at church, but would frequently get into massive screaming matches where they'd kick their teenage kids out of the house. They're divorced now.

[–] KingOfSleep@lemmy.ca 98 points 1 day ago

The Southern Baptist only exist because the other Baptists were against slavery. Fuck every single one of them.

[–] riskable@programming.dev 118 points 1 day ago (7 children)

support policies that promote childbearing.

...like making abortion legal in all 50 states again? Like comprehensive sex education in schools? Like treating women as people and not property?

The most effective way for the Southern Baptists to promote childbearing would be for them to stay the fuck out of politics!

Abortion policies are a DIRECT REASON why I haven't had any more children. If I can't have guaranteed access to necessary, life-saving medical treatment (e.g. emergency abortions) then I won't put my wife's life at risk for one more child.

[–] turtlesareneat@discuss.online 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Part of conservatism is the idea that "the more complex a solution is, the wronger it is."

Another part is "We should be able to control women's use of their hoo-hoos for pleasure by restricting them to being baby chambers."

Here we have a venn diagram where the circles are the same.

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[–] MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Note them prioritizing childbearing and not childrearing. Though they also aren't prioritizing childbearing regardless of what they say.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago

Note them prioritizing childbearing and not childrearing.

A lot of these conservative groups have their heads fully packed with eugenics and social darwinian philosophy. The goal is to just keep popping kids out and come-what-may. Eventually, a large enough population will produce some ubermensch. And then you breed the ubermench to get your prodigies and your messiahs.

It's Genetics meets Calvinism. If you succeed, its because you've got the Purest Blood. If you fail, it is because you have trash DNA and should be cleansed to make way for the superior people who will follow.

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[–] AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 8 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Can't wait until they all burn in hell.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 7 points 8 hours ago

It's people like them that make we wish I believed in Hell.

[–] randon31415@lemmy.world 45 points 1 day ago (2 children)

"Willful childlessness?" Is that like the opposite of incel? Volcel?

[–] DannyMac@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 hours ago

Thanks for quoting this. It makes way more sense than the way I first read the headline as "Willful childishness."

[–] spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Lol, you don't have to be celibate to be willfully childless. I have plenty of friends that got the snip/knot before having a kid because they don't want one. And they are some of the sluttiest motherfuckers I know (and they'd take that as the compliment it was).

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[–] Beryl@jlai.lu 70 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

"We are miserable and we want you to be too !"

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world -2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

They're not miserable though, these kinds of sentiment are just cope. We have to stop reading things that appeal to our feelings and desires, that's how we got in this mess.

They're generally much, much happier than progressives or leftists, because stupidity is directly linked to higher levels of short-term happiness and satisfaction from things like socializing and entertainment.

I don't think there's any good lesson to learn from this. But I think we have to do a lot better to understand the motivations of the people who are trying to affect the world with their agendas. They're trying to make the world as "happy" as they are, and will always fail because others are too smart to accept a magical sky-daddy, just like they're too dumb to see the wonder of a universe without a storyline.

Whatever happens in the near-term, we all have to continue to live next to each other so knowing what powers your dumb neighbors is more important than any other thing you could learn.

[–] MerrySkeptic@sh.itjust.works 50 points 1 day ago (2 children)

So if they want to use their influence for political ends, why are they tax exempt?

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[–] Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world 42 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That stance against sports betting annoys me so much, because that means I can't just look at everything they stand for and say I want the opposite.

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[–] khannie@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 children)

Willful childlessness is such a hilarious concept. I'm rollin' around here.

What are they gonna do? Check if you're having unprotected sex sufficiently? Check how many miscarriages you've had? HAHAHAHAh. Fuckin' donkeys.

edit: Small gubment.

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[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I'm so tired of religious extremists trying to force their shitty Puritanical views on the whole world.

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