Fake videos show frustrated, unmarried, childless middle-aged women crying and venting in hospital hallways about their life choices.

Fake videos show frustrated, unmarried, childless middle-aged women crying and venting in hospital hallways about their life choices.

  • FiniteBanjo@feddit.onlineEnglish
    51·
    2 months ago

    Hopefully this is about as effective as the war on drugs, because the world needs less children.

  • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.worldEnglish
    39·
    2 months ago

    Parents (not being able to tell the videos are AI-generated): “See this? This will be you in 30 years if you don’t get married and have kids very soon!”

    Kids (able to see the videos are visit AI-generated): “Suuuuure!”

  • LiveLM@lemmy.zipEnglish
    61·
    2 months ago

    Fight fire with fire. Time for the Chinese Kids to start spamming their parents with AI-gen’d videos of Men and Women regretting getting married.

  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    it’s such a shame there’s no way to get a child when you’re single, wouldn’t it be great if you could, like… “adopt” a child to care for?

  • MissJinx@lemmy.worldEnglish
    171·
    2 months ago

    Worst than going to the hospital alone and spending old age alone is doing that after doing all the work of having kids. I will be alone and I’m taking care of that but I know people relying on children that don’t give a fuck about them.

      • ObjectivityIncarnate@lemmy.worldEnglish
        165·
        2 months ago

        They’re each trying to put their own spin on it, there is no actual distinction in the words, just in the subtext/implication.

        The former implies it’s a lacking of a necessary thing, the latter implies it’s the avoidance of an unnecessary burden. It’s completely subjective whether a child is one or the other to someone.

        It’s a broadcast of one’s own biases to consider either of these terms more ‘valid’ than the other.

        • Hylactor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          151·
          2 months ago

          At the very least, if you’re trying to persuade to have kids, people who have chosen to not have kids, those people are not childless, they are child free. Their will is to be without child. They are not failing at having kids, they are succeeding at not having them.

        • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          I also always note how these discussions seem to utterly forget about the ability to raise kids communally, it’s perfectly possible to just want to raise kids part time, e.g. by having a friend or sibling’s kids over for the weekends so their parents get some time to themselves.

        • wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          77·
          2 months ago

          I am dubious of your intermediate and final claims. For something to be necessary, it means that one cannot go without it. Is procreation a biological imperative, with strong positive reinforcement from the individual’s biological feedbacks? Sure. But is it necessary? Strictly, no.

          I don’t think you can make the claim that someone saying it is not necessary is inherently biased. To claim that procreation is not strictly necessary is a neutral, objectively true position. The bias in the perspective of “child-free” is the implied framing of the lack of procreation as a personal or moral good. Procreation is, again, unnecessary, and is (in many ways literally) a burden. Whether one frames that unnecessary burden as positive or negative is at issue here.

          I don’t appreciate the claim that people must be biased in order to observe simple facts, denuded of emotion.

  • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1355·
    2 months ago

    My parents and extended family: “why don’t you find a nice girl to [blah blah blah]”

    Me: “haha yes I’ll get right on that”

    Me: having mega gay sex in addition to actively not wanting children, even if I was medically a good candidate to father them

    Parents/extended: “I just don’t understand”

    Me: upgrades to ultra mega gay sex

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      9·
      2 months ago

      I imagine that Xi probably doesn’t care all that much whether you’re having mega gay sex, but I expect that he is very interested in whether you are also employing that dingus in ways more-conducive to sustaining future state output.

      • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        I don’t think that means what you think it means, but I won’t tell anyone… 🤫

        (DA require someone to end themselves or their ability to carry on their bloodline though blatant stupidity of some fashion; merely not reproducing does not count)