Comment by angrystego@lemmy.world on US startup charging couples to ‘screen embryos for IQ’

I think it’s understandable. Intelligence is partly hereditary and people want clever children. Education and job can give you at least an overall idea of the person you’re having a child with. It’s kind of weird anyway to have a child with someone random, isn’t it?

It’s kind of weird anyway to have a child with someone random, isn’t it?

In my mind “being inseminated by” is like 1% of “having a child with”, if that. It’s probably the least consequential thing your father may do in your overall upbringing.

I think for many women “being inseminated by” IS a big thing.

OK, you could in principle have made that sound worse, for example by saying “females” like a goddamn Ferengi, but still, pretty impressive.

And that was my whole point, I was reacting to V0ldek’s: “being inseminated by…is the least consequential thing”, which they proposed was not important from the child’s point of view. I wanted to point out it’s rather different (in a bad way) from the woman’s point of view.

Is that a bad thing? Where did I go wrong in expressing myself? Or did I misunderstand V0ldek’s comment?

starter tip: stop talking about women as if they don’t have any agency, and stop using them as a reasoning device in your unnecessary posts

What? I still don’t understand. Would you mind genuinely eli5 to me what from my post makes you think I talk about women as if they don’t have any agency? I’m asking genuinely for patient explanation.

@froztbyte @angrystego

To be fair they all too often have less agency about getting pregnant than they should, and getting pregnant is something women may fear or dread depending on the circumstances such as “was it rape” “is he abusive” “that’d really fuck up my career that is finally getting going” and “am I in Texas or Florida or Georgia or…”

Also, accidents happen, probably even with birth control defense in depth.

god I was wondering how to express this, and you nailed it

(the other thing that came to mind was all those “femoids” quotes that came up in (iirc) münecat’s manosphere video)

@V0ldek @angrystego

That doesn’t really apply to a guy you only know as Dewar number 27, does it? Raising a child with that person isn’t in the cards except by very unlikely coincidence.

Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here’s the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.

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