Read an article today whose point seems to be that (a) having children is becoming increasingly popular with the glitterati, and (b) it’s a shameful thing to promote having children, or even that having children can be a good thing.
Sinister motives are implied:
In her new book, The Terror Dream, the feminist Susan Faludi (also without child) argues that the procreation push is part of a creepy post-9/11 gender narrative, an extension of the ongoing, nationalist effort to promote hearth, home, and female fragility: “a concerted effort to promote this … idea that women would and should reproduce as a way of consoling the nation,†as she put it to The Observer.
“Consoling the nation”? Isn’t it more like “maintaining the continuing existence of the nation”?
Of course, being a man, what do I know?
I may be talking from the herd mentality point of view, but in order to maintain the herd, one must procreate. I fail to see how moviestars feeling their biological clocks ticking and deciding they want to join in this process is a big conspiracy. Many non-famous women get this urge as well.
So, man or no, I agree with you.