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Do you really want to make babies in a world where nothing is free, resources are going down, there are more starving people in third-world countries than supplies, almost everything is expensive, and IQ means everything? Even \'\'my very own parents\'\' upon raising me turned into cynical Malthusians; they keep telling me to never make babies unless you\'re sure you have good genes and can feed and educate them. And I know that it\'s true. Call this SelfDeprecation or eugenics if you want. This is actually about making sure your children don\'t turn out as starved and [[Film/{{Idiocracy}} stupid]], which is what Malthusians may mean by waste.
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Do you really want to make babies in a world where nothing is free, resources are going down, there are more starving people in third-world countries than supplies, almost everything is expensive, and IQ means everything? Even \\\'\\\'my very own parents\\\'\\\' upon raising me turned into cynical Malthusians; they keep telling me to never make babies unless you\\\'re sure you have good genes and can feed and educate them. And I know that it\\\'s true. Call this SelfDeprecation or eugenics if you want. This is not about \\\"I hate children\\\", this is actually about making sure your children don\\\'t turn out as starved and [[Film/{{Idiocracy}} stupid]], which is what Malthusians may mean by waste. Hence, this is more like extensive concern and preparation brought by actually caring about the future of your children so that they would deserve to continue the human race.
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Do you really want to make babies in a world where nothing is free, resources are going down, there are more starving people in third-world countries than supplies, almost everything is expensive, and IQ means everything? Even \'\'my very own parents\'\' upon raising me turned into cynical Malthusians; he keeps telling me to never make babies unless you\'re sure you have good genes and can feed and educate them. Call this SelfDeprecation or eugenics if you want. This is actually about making sure your children don\'t turn out as starved and [[Film/{{Idiocracy}} stupid]], which is what Malthusians may mean by waste.
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Do you really want to make babies in a world where nothing is free, resources are going down, there are more starving people in third-world countries than supplies, almost everything is expensive, and IQ means everything? Even \\\'\\\'my very own parents\\\'\\\' upon raising me turned into cynical Malthusians; they keep telling me to never make babies unless you\\\'re sure you have good genes and can feed and educate them. And I know that it\\\'s true. Call this SelfDeprecation or eugenics if you want. This is actually about making sure your children don\\\'t turn out as starved and [[Film/{{Idiocracy}} stupid]], which is what Malthusians may mean by waste.
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* DoubleStandard: [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4530 This comic]] shows glasses that \
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* DoubleStandard: [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4530 This comic]] shows glasses that \\\"translate\\\" what men say without context to the writer\\\'s life. This should be impossible (RuleOfFunny aside), so apparently women can judge men as much as they want, but the reverse idea has shot down by the feminists a few times.
** There has never been a case where a female\\\'s thoughts are \\\"translated\\\". Until there is, and it shows female thoughts being no different between the translated and untranslated versions, \\\'\\\'there is no double standard\\\'\\\'.
** [[http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4569 This comic]] seems to imply that women feel miserable and worthless because men \\\'\\\'make\\\'\\\' them feel that way, while men feel miserable and worthless because they inherently \\\'\\\'are.\\\'\\\'
No, it doesn\\\'t. The strip before this one shows Slick feeling bad about himself because \\\'\\\'Monique rejected him when he was trying to help her and he doesn\\\'t know why she did.\\\'\\\'
** It gets better! [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4468 Judging women\\\'s worth by outward appearance and holding them up to unrealistic and arbitrary standards of beauty is unforgivably awful.]] [[http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4619 Men are fair game though.]]
Again, no. Carefully note the difference between Slick\\\'s and the girl\\\'s dialogue balloons. His are SPOKEN WORDS, hers are THOUGHTS; that\\\'s not a double standard, although it\\\'s rather pointedly gendering right and wrong behavior. He harasses a woman at a crosswalk and becomes enraged at her for being uncomfortable; she doesn\\\'t say anything out loud, she just observes without comment. I\\\'m pretty sure no one in the comic has ever said it\\\'s not okay to look or have thoughts, but it\\\'s seriously not cool to just bark out meat-market appraisals as you walk past people. Unless you\\\'re talking about her saying \\\"Ew\\\" when she sees a pig, in public, reading a porno mag, which \\\'\\\'still\\\'\\\' doesn\\\'t fit the double standard, because she\\\'s disgusted with his \\\'\\\'gross behavior\\\'\\\', not his appearance.
None of these are double standards: the first only presents half of the necessary presentation, the second is factually incorrect, and the third ignores the deliberate contrast between the two examples.
** There has never been a case where a female\\\'s thoughts are \\\"translated\\\". Until there is, and it shows female thoughts being no different between the translated and untranslated versions, \\\'\\\'there is no double standard\\\'\\\'.
** [[http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4569 This comic]] seems to imply that women feel miserable and worthless because men \\\'\\\'make\\\'\\\' them feel that way, while men feel miserable and worthless because they inherently \\\'\\\'are.\\\'\\\'
No, it doesn\\\'t. The strip before this one shows Slick feeling bad about himself because \\\'\\\'Monique rejected him when he was trying to help her and he doesn\\\'t know why she did.\\\'\\\'
** It gets better! [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4468 Judging women\\\'s worth by outward appearance and holding them up to unrealistic and arbitrary standards of beauty is unforgivably awful.]] [[http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4619 Men are fair game though.]]
Again, no. Carefully note the difference between Slick\\\'s and the girl\\\'s dialogue balloons. His are SPOKEN WORDS, hers are THOUGHTS; that\\\'s not a double standard, although it\\\'s rather pointedly gendering right and wrong behavior. He harasses a woman at a crosswalk and becomes enraged at her for being uncomfortable; she doesn\\\'t say anything out loud, she just observes without comment. I\\\'m pretty sure no one in the comic has ever said it\\\'s not okay to look or have thoughts, but it\\\'s seriously not cool to just bark out meat-market appraisals as you walk past people. Unless you\\\'re talking about her saying \\\"Ew\\\" when she sees a pig, in public, reading a porno mag, which \\\'\\\'still\\\'\\\' doesn\\\'t fit the double standard, because she\\\'s disgusted with his \\\'\\\'gross behavior\\\'\\\', not his appearance.
None of these are double standards: the first only presents half of the necessary presentation, the second is factually incorrect, and the third ignores the deliberate contrast between the two examples.
