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MadrasT

(7,237 posts)
9. The answer I always get from my partner
Thu Nov 15, 2012, 07:18 PM
Nov 2012

(because he is BIG on the MENZ and WIMMINZ are FUNDAMENTALLY DIFFERENT!!!1!! thing)

And I ask him to 'splain himself (because I disagree, violently) and when he can't come up with anything else the answer reverts to...

"But but but wimminz can have BABEEEEZ so that changes their entire outlook on LIFE and colors every single decision they ever make and everything they do."

And I am all like



Huh?



To hear him talk, most women spend their whole lives either being mothers or contemplating motherhood. And that somehow makes us wildly DIFFERENT HUMAN BEINGS from men. Like, exotic species different.

Cause, y'know, women spontaneously have babeeeez without any male involvement whatsoever.

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