Think a lot of this comes down to the difference between the hard antinatalism of environmental radicals vs. the soft “ew, what woman would risk her career to raise babies” antinatalism of (mostly young, educated, progressive, white, female) online types.
https://twitter.com/ZaidJilani/status/1391797910371721217
What’s most interesting to me is the bleed-over from the former to the latter - the idea that environmental considerations make it some kind of moral evil that some (many! most!) women want to have children.
Which, as I think Zaid pointed out recently, seems more a defensive crouch allowing a certain variety of (again, mostly white, career-driven, progressive in her 20s/30s) woman to feel she’s got the moral high ground for being mad that her mom dares suggest she think about kids.
Basic biology and every faith tradition (modern environmentalism notwithstanding) sees having children as the end-goal of life. It boggles the mind that so many people say “eh, I’ll have none of that” and expect no one else will think it odd.
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