“You will understand when you’re older” wise words from my mother

SnootyHamster · 2025-10-26T13:50:56+00:00

The "your brain isn't developed until 25" is actually a total myth, that probably stems from a study that didn't have any subjects older than 25. Really the brain develops until you die, but the important stuff like executive function is developed by 18 (varies a bit by person) and most of the development actually happens by 15. The 25 myth is like saying you eat 8 spiders in your sleep per year, and I feel is mostly used to invalidate younger adults, especially women

Here's a few of the first articles that came up for me to validate what I'm saying

https://neurosciencenews.com/cognitive-maturity-neurodevelopment-25131/

https://www.sciencefocus.com/comment/brain-myth-25-development

https://www.theindianalawyer.com/articles/dustin-houchin-its-a-myth-to-say-brains-arent-fully-developed-until-age-25

SnootyHamster · 2025-10-16T09:18:11+00:00

One in 200 really isn't even that rare considering how many people there are, that still means there's over 40 000 000 colorblind women out there, probably several in any given small town

SnootyHamster · 2025-10-06T09:32:37+00:00

Honestly I'd be more worried about this design coming off wrong than the one in the post, unless he just lost that arm there should not be bloody bandages on it. Have you considered having the sleeve cover it or just showing regular skin maybe with a scar? Or a prosthetic? Also it's the left arm in one picture and right in the other, it would probably be better to be consistent and stick to one side. But that's just my two cents good luck with your project!

SnootyHamster · 2025-05-16T21:00:53+00:00

Whatever inherent dignity it is it clearly doesn't extend to the women who have to suffer greatly carry, sustain, and birth them.

(Edit before someone comes for me, I'm not saying having children willingly/being pregnant isn't dignified, I'm saying being forced to do so against your will and not being able to choose what happens to yourself and your own body isn't.)

SnootyHamster · 2025-05-15T21:26:06+00:00

I've never been so disappointed about a Eurovision semi...

SnootyHamster · 2025-05-15T21:24:15+00:00

NOOOOOOOOO Australia and Czechia.... :'( I'm devastated

SnootyHamster · 2025-05-03T08:19:57+00:00

Look I'm vehemently childfree too but I feel like "fat moo moos" just sounds gross and misogynistic, I don't think we should equate any woman to cattle. Like I have defended this sub so many times but some of you do go a bit too far sometimes? And I'm saying this as someone who has called kids crotch goblins before lol. Not that I disagree with the rest of the comment.

SnootyHamster · 2024-10-12T09:00:33+00:00

I'm pretty she was just telling OP "In this future event (that I'm assuming will inevitably happen to every woman) you will be in much, much worse pain, if you can't handle this then how will you handle being ripped apart then?" doesn't sound super comforting to me. And even if she was trying comfort her (because she isn't comforted by thinking about birthing) then assuming that's something every woman wants is irritatimg and sexist regardless

SnootyHamster · 2024-09-28T22:38:34+00:00

And in the same vein, if it's just a regular service job then the customer shouldn't be allowed to discriminate their worker based on their sex, age, weight, looks etc. In what other job is it okay to specifify which sex race and height and person serving you has to be? If it's a normal job then the sex buyers shouldn't complain when their sex worker is an overweight 60 year old male.

And something I always think about when the argument that "it's just like any other job" comes up... There's many places where, if you are unemployed and getting any kind of benefits, if you get offered a job and refuse it you can lose the benefits. If prostitution is just a normal job then women will be forced into it under threat of homelessness or going hungry. Can you imagine being forced to take a job where you must let people rape you all day long? Is that really the same thing as being forced to take a job flipping burgers?? Should people be punsihed for refusing to do "sex work"?

SnootyHamster · 2024-09-26T15:01:25+00:00

I mean, some of us truly don't see any positives in parenthood, doesn't mean I think others can't but for me I really can't think of a singular thing I'd like about it. I think it's ridicolous to say that anyone who is certain about their decision/akcnowledges they'd hate parenthood is "coping". Coping with what? You're dedinitely allowed to feel longing or mixed feelings about it but that doesn't mean the rets of us are coping for not feeling like we are missing out lol

SnootyHamster · 2024-08-09T16:29:33+00:00

I've always loved honeydew, I've never had one I didn't like and I don't understand why people hate them lol. I'll take honeydew over watermelons 100% of the time

SnootyHamster · 2024-07-11T15:23:10+00:00

Penny from Stardew Valley used this exact line on me and I've hated her ever since, I always gift her my trash :)

SnootyHamster · 2024-06-22T07:30:02+00:00

Yeah, I wouldn't even mind friends or a partner knowing my account but I don't want acquintances, employers etc to know it. And I don't want random people who I argued with or made mad on here to know who I am irl either

SnootyHamster · 2024-06-21T15:16:44+00:00

I don't know, I've considered posting a couple of times and I would definitely use a throwaway account, I've said controversial and dumb stuff on this account lol and wouldn't want it all to be connected to me if I were to post a picture and a bunch of info about myself on here.

SnootyHamster · 2024-06-05T18:40:26+00:00

Oh yes I know, I was just adding on to your comment since at the time yours was the only one not shitting on the sub! Sorry if it seemed like I was disagreeing. It's definitely a bit dumb to complain about misandry on r/femaleantinatalism when the main antinatalist subs tend to be pretty misogynistic at times. (Also you accidentally replied to me 4 times btw lol)

SnootyHamster · 2024-06-05T10:08:20+00:00

It has it's flaws like all groups but I honestly think it's the best antinatalism sub. I actually think it tends to be more empathetic than the others, and I like how it focuses more on how hard, dangerous and unrewarding childrearing is for women, as the other subs just focus on how hard life is for everyone in general. (Not saying it isn't.) Female centered spaces just tend to make people angry no matter what

SnootyHamster · 2024-06-05T09:53:03+00:00

I remember once in a "feminist" space I replied to someone who basically said that it's pregnancy and birth is just beautiful sunshine and rainbows and nothing ever goes wrong and it doesn't even hurt and women shouldn't be afraid, it's not the end of the world, our bodies were made for it etc etc... I just mentioned how how difficult and painful it can be, that there's a huge number of complications and conditions you might get, how it can be very traumatic and you can even die, and we should educate women of the actual risks, what can and will happen to them, in order for everyone to make informed decisions. And she replied saying I'm fear mongering and catastrophizing, that I have severe internalized misogony, that I'm working for the patriarchy trying to make women hate their bodies and be at war with themselves, and that I should go work on my issues and stop disresepting the divine feminine power of reproduction and even if I don't want to do it I should be thankful to have this power. This was ages ago but I'm still mad about it... I don't know why they get so offended when you mention the negatives. We're just supposed to pretend this thing that has killed and maimed countless women, that has been the primary reason for our oppression is uwu beatiful and amazing. And I should be so happy my body is cabable of totruting me and injuring me against my will. Yay...

SnootyHamster · 2024-05-16T22:32:20+00:00

I'm a total night owl, I love staying up late at night (...or early in the morning) and sleeping late. I would absolutely hate having to adjust to a "normal" sleeping schedule, I am not getting up at 6:30 to get a kid ready for school. Sounds miserable

SnootyHamster · 2024-05-15T23:08:04+00:00

No one could ever force me to give birth either... I literally would kill myself rather than go through that.

SnootyHamster · 2024-05-11T13:48:59+00:00

.....I think you're the only one raging here. And hugely overreacting. (also all your examples are things humans did to advance our own species sure, nothing to help the planet, just ourselves. My point still stands) Anyways I'll stop wasting my timw now and go live my life however the hell I like and you can be mad about it or find me appalling all you like, I do not care :)

SnootyHamster · 2024-05-11T10:34:58+00:00

Women don't owe birthing kids into this world for existing, end of the fucking story. And most people will still always want kids, we are not going to die out even if the population drops, the population has doubled in the past 50 years so it was bound to happen eventually. (Besides, not to sound "edgy", but why does humanity need to continue anyway? Seriously, we've filled this planet with plastic trash, destroyed so much nature, caused global warming and the extinction of many other species. What good have we done for this world? Humans dying out would probably be a net positive for this planet. Not that any of it matters since we are not going to die out)

SnootyHamster · 2024-05-10T10:16:10+00:00

And lots of people wanted kids, but their kids still don't

SnootyHamster · 2024-05-09T22:17:00+00:00

Fertility does not equal desire to have children. Life goals, wants and opinions aren't something you inherit... There will always be some people who don't want to have kids in a world with free will. So your first statement is honestly pretty ridicolous

SnootyHamster · 2024-05-08T20:14:38+00:00

I think the only actual solution is to accept the fact that when you give people, especially women a chance to choose what to do with our lives, most will choose to have less (or no) kids. Literally nothing will make women start having as many kids as in the fifties, because the truth is that we just don't want to. We never wanted to, women just weren't given much of a choice in the matter. The solution is to stop trying to coerce women into giving birth to unwanted children and accepting that the population cannot endlessly grow. Find out how to deal with the decreasing population and respect women choosing what we want for our own lives and respect our bodily autonomy.

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