Anti-kid Zining
Lea Ann martin wrote:
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> Read all about my views on babies and
> how I think the whole idea is based on fallacy perpetuated by a male
> dominated society.
Zines have to make sense to be any good. Also they’re more about ideas
than about paper, so you might as well say what you mean about this
right here. Show us how it works, whizkid!
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The ideas about kids aren’t original nor are they
rigorous. Sad to actually base any action
on them. Starting with “I don’t like kids.”
‘Like’ has never had bearing on the value of anything.
It’s rather easily predicted. And doesn’t indicate
any power of judgement on behalf of the ‘liker.’
It’s accidental at best, manipulated almost always.
It has no place in a debate, maybe not even in
one about feelings.
The remarks about family show little awareness
of the process human development, not even
that which the writer herself has undergone, if
she has. Well, I suppose they reveal an immature
stage—which, as she says, in many people lasts
their whole lives. Far more today than ever before
since permanent adolescence is a big goal of
western culture.
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Lea Ann martin wrote:
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>Is that you do not agree or your just a
> negative boring old sack.
PS: Negative? Do you realize that you had just
posted a huge streak of misanthropic indulgence?
That’s not to say that everyone should have kids
or ‘like’ them.
It seems like a good half of what you seem to feel
involves a *negative reaction* to the inanities of
others, even if they were said to you out of feelings
of intended friendliness. (Like people telling you
you seem like someone who would have lots of kids.)
But one can always reject silliness without being
negative oneself. It’s hard not to throw the baby
out with the bathwater these days, so to speak,
but that’s what seems to happen most times.
That’s the old reject your parents and your town
phase. It’s an important one, but not to be lingered
at, and the rejection doesn’t contain the solution.
In fact, one has to come home again in a new way.
