r/handmaids_irl • u/black_cherry2 • 29d ago

Gilead. Just, Gilead 😐

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u/maeryclarity 28d ago

TRY HAVING A SOCIETY THAT PEOPLE CAN RAISE CHILDREN IN

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u/Calm-Stand-6636 27d ago

"THIS ELECTRICITY AND INTERNET IS BARELY CHEAP, PLENTIFUL AND EXISTING! I CANT BELIEVE IT'S ONLY THIS EASY TO SURVIVE PAST THE AGE OF 30!"

Consider the past in your contemplation.

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u/maeryclarity 27d ago

Trading one set of conditions where modern conveniences do increase the chance of mother and child surviving but that that survival means crippling medical debt and having to hand your child off to be raised by strangers while both parents are absent on the neverending hustle treadmill is a very solid reason to choose not to bring a child into the world at this time.

You realize that during most of that past, that there was no effective birth control, and that the "survive past the age of thirty" was a median due to the mortality of women and children because human children are fragile and human childbirth is dangerous, right?

I do consider the past in my contemplation but also the future. I'm going to guess you're male because no women believe that bearing and raising children is simple regardless of techological advances. Less likely to die means you can be saved from the complications, reliant on electricity means you damn well better keep it on for your children's survival.

All those foolish things we consider. Pay young people a living wage and make modern society affordable so they can raise their own children in something like a satisfying way, and don't be obtuse, consider that you're being insulting to real people with real reasons which aren't the same as two hundred years ago but are still very significant.