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I love being childless.
*childfree!
Definitely not free, little fuckers are expensive AF :D
A 20 year credit card you can never pay off.
I love children … in 15 minute doses. That’s why being a childless school bus driver is so great.
Was literally thinking this while making coffee this morning. It’s Saturday. I didn’t have a good sleep. But now I can play video games all day and maybe have a nap later. Then going out at 8pm, until whenever I feel like. None of this would be possible with kids.
It’s not like either of them enjoyed it, especially after the fourth or fifth one.
I bet he enjoyed it more than her.
I don’t know why you’re getting downvoted. You’re right.
I annoy some on Lemmy because of my feminist views. Doesn’t bother me, but thank you for your comment!
How many of those old kids were acting as parents because the folks were too busy fucking?
The two oldest, seated in front, are tending two newborn babies. Presumably the parents are off somewhere else, fucking.
They didn’t think about it they just did it.
I had the fortunate experience of growing up with great-grandparents living, as well as some of their siblings. I got to hear first-hand experiences from 3 generations of women (mother, grandmothers, and two great-grandmothers plus various aunts sprinkled in). It was invaluable for me. Knowing their life stories and the truth of what they endured has helped me navigate life in so many ways.
It also has been incredible armor against the flood of misplaced nostalgia and outright manipulation of history that seems so prevelant. My great-grandmother was born in 1908 and died in 2002. She left her abusive husband in the 1930s and raised her kids as a single mom in a time when it was exponentially more difficult to do so. Glad she got out when she did with 4 instead of 14…
When I hear of the women in the victorian times who worked as sex workers to get by, got hacked into pieces by Jack the Ripper and no one batted an eye when they heard a woman screaming as that’s just what London was like at the time…
… I know there’s a lot of unwritten history that wildly deviates from the conservative mindset, and always has.
If you’re interested, I highly recommend “The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper” by Hallie Rubenhold!
Geez lady, is a vagina not a clown car
To be fair grandma was not thinking about sex for any of this. The female orgasm hadn’t yet made it to straight women.
Dunno, but if I remember correctly, in the 19th and early 20th centuries child mortality was very high in some places, especially where there is little access to medical services, and certain vaccines have yet to be developed. That’s why some impoverished families became large because survival was on top of the list, and nearly all the children had to find work early on.
That and in combination with very little access to contraception and abortion. Women had as many babies as came from being married and having sex.
They needed workers. Not pictured is the shallow grave out back for the 4 that got the rickets
Oh wow, you dug a grave? Look at mister “thinks he’s better than everybody else because he owns enough land to bury people”. Why don’t you just tie em up in a sack and toss em in the river like the rest of us?
It’s a very suspicious ratio of pants to dresses
Young boys and girls used to wear the same outfits and they were passed down. Look closely at the photo.
And the “orphan train” already passed by, so it’s not pictured either. Or the “for sale” signs when the children became too many. But the chimney sweep kids are “living it up”, as they’re learning an important trade!
But the chimney sweep kids are “living it up”, as they’re learning an important trade!
The cancers those chimney sweep kids got were horrific. Last Podcast on the Left recently did a deep dive into chimney sweeps and it was eye-opening. Highly recommend listening if you’re into that kind of thing.
Sorry, sorry… that was sarcasm. It was mostly slavery of orphans, guised as trade-skills. As well as the cancers, they also had hellish injury/death, because ya know… 7 year olds are climbing chimneys
“Put their feet to the fire”… sometimes kids were too afraid to keep climbing, so they lit a fire under them. Sometimes, they became too grown and got stuck in the chimney, possibly dying. Hellish
I wasn’t correcting you, I just have ADHD and saw your line about chimney sweeps which reminded me of that podcast episode so I recommended it hahaha
I’m sorry I didn’t make it clear that I was just conversing with you.
Lmao, well damn I’m sorry again! That makes more sense, I misinterpreted cause I is a little dumb. I’ll have to check it out because I am in fact, into those kinda things! Thank you
No problem :)
Tone can be so hard to convey on text and then further complicated with neurodivergence haha
if you’re into that kind of thing
Chimney sweeps, podcasts, cancer, or open eyes?
Learning more about fucked up things lol
Do you have a link to the podcast “the Left” or related doesn’t show clear results, thanks.
Oh yes! The show is called “The Last Podcast on the Left” and here’s a link to their site.
Ah material to drift off to sleep on to. 😄 - Some of them at least. Will give it a go!
I don’t listen to much true crime anymore, but these guys stole my heart haha
Chim, chimney
Chim, chimney
Chim, chim, cher-ee
A sweep is full of cancer
As full of cancer as you can be.
Being pregnant is the cheapest contraceptive after all.
Um? I assume your comment was made tongue-in-cheek but seriously: Being pregnant (and raising the kid afterwards) is by far the most expensive contraceptive.
Eight survived…
How is this a meme? SMH
Isn’t it funny to laugh at women in tough situations through very little choice of their own?
Peak comedy, right?
That’s what happens when a wife is not allowed to say no and birth control doesn’t exist. Could also represent having sex only 15 times over 16 years and getting pregnant every time. My grandmother swore all my grandfather needed to do was look at her and she was pregnant yet again.
Being fair to women back then, most of them didn’t know how sex and babies worked, lacked any sort of formal education besides knowing how to read and write, and were raised that disagreeing with your husband or saying no to him in the bedroom was how to wind up an old spinster, the worst fate for any woman.
“Honey, if I knew what was causing it, I would never have had more than two.”
-My great grandma, mother of 12
They legitimately didn’t understand that sex resulted in pregnancy?
That seems unlikely to be true unless they were raised very religious and not in any proximity to farm animals or pets.
Religious, yes. But very much on a farm.
So she knew if the farm animals had sex they’d become pregnant?
She lived on the farm, but she didn’t work it; that’s what the male children were for. Her “place” was in the house.
She told me she would ask sometimes, but all anybody would ever tell her was some variation of, “Birds fly. Fish swim. Women have babies. That’s just what they do/That’s just the way it is.”
She finally found out from her doctor while discussing her hysterectomy, but only after confirming her husband was already dead.
Not until after menopause. She was born in the rural US American south some time in the 1920s (the date is known, I just forget). She grew up during the great depression, never went to school, only knew what she learned from her mother, who lived the same way, and only socialized with other women at church, who also lived and grew up the same way. She could read and count well enough to follow a recipe and write enough to leave her husband a note, but that was about it. She was raised to believe that if she said no to her husband in the bedroom, he would divorce her, word would spread around town that she wasn’t a “good woman” and she would end up an old spinster, the worst thing a woman could possibly be.
Yeah, that was only discovered in the 1990s.
I mean, if you can’t figure out a pattern after birth 3… You might be mentally underdeveloped.
People with mad game don’t need to front it.
