or, people could do the environmentally responsible thing and STOP FUCKING!!!!!!!!

You don't HAVE to have kids, ya know...

I'm perfectly happy without a squalling rugrat and I wish a lot more people either didn't have them, or actually spent time teaching their brats class and manners.

an interesting article; but not a new idea, or analysis of the situation.
i would discuss whether there is a class war occuring here, but that would be a serious distraction from improving the situation. my complaint with this article and how it was posted has little to do with the language used. my complaint is with the message.

identification of a problem can only ever be the first step. and getting caught up in the first step divides concerned people who care about the issue. what is much more important is working together and separately to create solutions.

there is no doubt that the more privilege a person has, the more possibilities that are available to them. i am no anthropologist, but i can think of no civilization that has not had this feature.

what i am is an american politician. i think in terms of policies, amendments of law, and campaigns. and honestly, the tools exist to create the opportunity for real choice on the US state level already. (and the beautiful thing about state governments is their close ties to a much smaller constituency) state run low to no cost insurance programs exist in almost every state through federal funds, padded with state funds. although the federal government is much to conservative to allow federal dollars to fund abortions and other, more economical forms of contraception, states can fund such expansions.

so if your concerned about giving poor women a choice, write your state legislators. run for state legislator. join your local planned parenthood committees. just don't fall into the same trap american leftists have succumb to for over two hundred years, and debate endlessly over symantics. its a big, massive waste of time that serves only to divide people with similar concerns.

You say, as you post on a site which makes its profits exploiting humanity's hardwired sexuality.

Worthwhile article.

But the overwhelming air of patented Dr Bitch smugness still sticks in my craw.

Here's the good doctor, up above, going "Nope. Not our fault. Not ever."

And here's the good doctor talking about privileged book-learnin' college-edjumacated feminism. (In the glory days of the Why Gender Matters thread, right at the end.)

Remember, folks, to be a real official Certified Practising Feminist, do your homework, eat your greens, and get that Women's Studies Degree. Then you too can pontificate about how inclusive you really are.

Seriously hilarious. It's like saying "Be environmentally responsible! Stop exhaling carbon dioxide!"

Have your read this, or is that comment just a coincidence?

Coincidence. Should I read it?

Yes. Before Bloom County and Doonesbury there was Pogo. Walt Kelly may have been the greatest sunday cartoonist of all time.

I'm sorry, but this sounds ridiculous. Especially considering that the major European powers of the time had mercantilist economies, Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations was published in 1776, the steam locomotive wasn't built until the consummation of the two revolutions, and paper money wasn't dominant in the United States until well after the ratification of the Constitution. Sounds intelligent, though...

It also sounds like the same Leftist "soon the proletariat will be SOOOOOOOO pissed they'll rise up and destroy the instruments of their enslavement!" boiler-plate that has been repeated since Marx.

The original article, in my opinion, really shows the importance of adopting an intersectional analysis rather than strictly a gender, race, or class analysis.

The sad thing is this is just reflecting society as a whole. The one that is get rich and then you are worthy of children. Low income families we may have to support so they do not have the right to have children. this is not a race issue, white black red all have low income workers. This country would fall apart without us. Who woudl do the things without us that are required that keep our society togather. From the garbage man truck driver or housekeepers waitresses, to the farm workers all who have the desire and the right to have children. To me this a societal problem that needs to be adddressed.

Americans like to believe there are no class differences in our country. Most Americans will tell you they are middle-class. Anyone is said to be able to move up in class with hard work. While there is a little bit of truth to that in comparison to other countries, reality is that it is not as easy as that. The whole "mommy wars" is based on the idea that women or parents in general have a choice. Most do not no matter which middle-class you are on.

Sorry it sounds ridiculous. It seems obvious to me. I don't understand what your references have to do with anything I said. Please explain.

As for the "Leftist" reference, that would be one form (of potentially many) that a shift in power could take but as a rule I would suggest that it would be exceptional and only likely if the separation of haves/have nots rose to the heights they did in pre revolution Russia. I certainly hope that this does not come to pass.

Just to pigeon hole myself for your easy digestion, I am a New Deal Democrat.

This is a good article, and one of the issues often overlooked in terms of women & choices in the workforce.

I'd like to point out that at times middle-class more priviedged women *and* men also find that they are stay at-home caregivers (mothers or fathers) due to the cost of a caregiver being higher than what they can earn themselves (with the PhD in the humanities, etc).