The Two Paths, Retort Edition

'Cause you KNOW you wanted to see this. For your reading pleasure and GNARGNARGNARG, here's the original.


I realize I'm treading on dangerous territory here. There's a lot of sentiment in some circles that staying home and raising a family = oppression, while staying single and joining the "official" workforce = liberation. After making this, I realize that it's further problematic by contrasting motherhood with employment, because motherhood IS employment. And it's a damn tough job.

HOWEVER.

Forcing women to get married and bear children is not okay.

Pretending that you're NOT forcing them, by telling them that getting married and having children is "virtuous" as in the original image, is not okay.

Young women and trans men, that stuff that your parents are calling "bad literature" is probably the key to your liberation. Read it.

And sexual promiscuity is not the big, bad beast that the fundies say it is. It's risky, like driving a car, but it probably won't cause premature aging and it CERTAINLY won't stop you from having a happy and fulfilled life.

That's all, folks.