Do women have to have children to be 'real women'?
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Do women have to have children to be 'real women'? Posted on May 8 2008 at 12:22am by All my life I associated femaleness with having children? Now that so many of us are not having children, it makes me wonder what is female life without reproduction and babies? 
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RE: Do women have to have children to be 'real women'? Posted on May 14 2008 at 11:08pm by It's whatever a person chooses to make their life about. Not everyone chooses to define their identity so rigidly by basic gender roles, and even those who do won't necessarily use your measuring stick. Most born females will have a vagina, uterus, ovaries, will develop breasts, have XX chromosomes. That's a woman right there. Why should we have to PROVE the equipment works to gain a title that is no less than what we are born to?
Nearly all women have the physical capability to bear children. That does not mean we HAVE to. The plumbing lets us gestate and birth the thing, but it's the whole person that has to handle the rearing and frankly, not all people are cut out for that. There may be stronger callings for an individual than reproduction, tasks better suited to their individual talents. We're finally at a point where we can look at our options and make that decision. There is nothing wrong with that and in no way does forgoing procreation make someone 'less' of a woman.RE: Do women have to have children to be 'real women'? Posted on May 20 2008 at 9:09pm by fuck i don't have children and i feel like a woman. that is so retro to think you need a screaming-bottle-sucker to be female!
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