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In my case it wasn't intentional. But I was always a bit weird, and none of my attempts to find a man to start a family with worked. High IQ and fat - in my case the latter also seems to possibly be due to some sort of problem with hormones or gut bacteria or who knows what, I nearly died of malnutrition when my mother tried to wean me because I could not hold anything inside, puking and diarrhea, then when I finally could I started to steadily gain weight. I have never lost much, not even when I was working at a job that had me walking kilometers per day in Lapland and far enough from stores that I had no choice but to stick to the daily ratios because otherwise I would have ran out of food before I could go shopping the next time, and as I was trying to lose weight I was more or less calorie deficient for the whole summer. Didn't lose any weight.
Yep, I wasn't good enough for anybody I would have accepted, and all I wanted was somebody I could have talked with on an equal footing, but what I like to talk about is pretty much everything - space, ecology, ghosts and what they might be, spaceflight, the moon and how it might have come to be, could Mars be terraformed, how animal species spread from one location to another, should we try to restrict that or just allow nature to takes its course, how climate works and why human caused global warming etc looks kind of shaky... looks like most guys aren't interested discussing stuff like that. At least the ones I tried to do that with usually bolted sooner or later.
Im sorry if you took my comment as picking on you. I wasnt. I see this attiude everyday among the young people who work for me and my comment was speaking about this attitude being prevalent among that age group in more general terms.
But yes, younger people have that, and I have seen it happen more than a few times: a woman doesn't even think about children because being too focused on her studies, then her career and having fun etc, then when they realize they actually would want to have at least one they are already getting a bit old and somehow now it always looks like the wrong time one way or another - and then they are too old to get pregnant.
Sorry for the guys who would not want to carry the whole financial situation mostly on their shoulders, but what we have now really doesn't work all that well. Women are most fertile in their late teens to late 20s, and start to lose that fast after they turn 30, so that is really the age most should have their kids. Even if that means they will not be as successful in their careers, and the father has to support the family mostly on his own for some years - unless some other support system could be figured out.
Probably should not be a government job, that, though.
To mine and her mothers greatest dismay, our youngest has never wanted children. I used to tell her that biological clock would bring her back to sanity but she will be 38 in September. Times running out.
And I am the greatest grandpa of all time. (hehe) My grandkids all get to shoot guns when they come over.
Sorry, it's just that I was a bit picked about the whole thing when I was younger so I am a bit sensitive. Especially since when I was still of child-bearing age it started to become more common for women who wanted children to just have them even if they hadn't found anybody to marry. I didn't want that, I wanted a real father for them if I was going to have them, and I guess that was seen as rather old-fashioned.