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        I guess there are all kinds of fetishes, but just having a big family doesn’t seem like one. If it was a woman who wanted lots of kids I guess their fetish was getting bred lol. Those kinky Jehova’s Witnesses and Mormons, now I know what they are all about

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          I would argue the age of these characters is peculiar. Also, the age difference between the kids. This seems less like someone envisioning a family with a lot of kids and more someone who is delusional about the prospect of ever getting older or having children that grow up.

          “I want a wife who is never older than 30 and children who never hit puberty” is delusional. That’s before you get into the Mormon problem of “surplus males” and how that affects the more orthodox corners of their community. When having multiple wives becomes a status symbol, and having lots of children becomes a status symbol, but the guy/girl ratio isn’t 1:3, you have to start asking what happens to all the horny, defiant, increasingly disenfranchised teenage boys who have to watch their dad marry one of the girls from their high school class.

          This isn’t strictly a fetish so much as it is a fantasy. While there’s nothing wrong with having vague, mushy, romantic views, you do need to interrogate them a bit at some point. Especially if the fantasy is going to be the foundation for your political viewpoint.

          A politics defined by a 20-something wife covered in Forever Four-Year-Olds isn’t rational. A politics of eternal youth is… not going to end well.

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              All Politics is Sexual Pathology, or so I’ve heard it said.

              But, in this case, the thing that really throws me is the idea of people being Forever Young. The parents never get older. The kids stop maturing at the toddler stage. I can half see that mom being pregnant into eternity. Just never giving birth, because the imagery of pregnancy is what the patriarchal artist is truly fixated on.

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      Definitely. It seems to be a fairly common style recently in my area. I’m a mostly-straight woman, but I like it. I’ve definitely found myself attracted to the occasional lesbian.

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    He wants a baby making machine who is capable of dressing nicely and putting on makeup despite being heavily pregnant on top of taking care of 6 children all of whom are in the baby and toddler phase?

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    “What sort of minimum wage would we need so an honest blue collar working man can take care of a family of ten and restore our society to the good ol days? Oh…ok… well let’s just ignore that part.”

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      obviously only people who are capable of inheriting 2 million dollars pull themselves up by their bootstraps deserve a big family

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    Oh, but it isn’t a fetish! It’s the command of God! They have to push out as many children as possible, because the Creator wishes for us to cover every inch of this planet, and they need a holy army to fight the demons Satan sends against us! And the women need to be pretty and subservient because Gods a man and He loves the good, pretty ladies.

    (I have heard this bullshit so many fucking times, with so many reasons why this is their gods plan.)

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      They have to hold that view! How else would a guy like that get sex once every nine months?

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        Marital rape.

        Oh, wait, so much of it already is “I was raised to perform my womanly duties, no matter my feelings”.

        Sorry, this is a personal sore point, not trying to go off on you.

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          No no, you’re absolutely right. I’ve seen a good deal of that too in the culture I was raised in.

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    Why are all kids blonde? I’m just saying maybe this guy married this poor single lady with a little league project or maybe this is one of those oliver twist situations.

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      White kids are often blonde even if they won’t be as adults. All mine were at least for awhile, all have medium or dark brown hair now. All born with blue eyes too, but half changed to brown later. Not sure why, but it’s normal.

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        Yep. I was bleach blonde for years. Starting switching from blonde to brown gradually around age eight or nine. Dark brown now.

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      frankly it’s difficult to be good parents with one child, humans are not meant to raise even a single kid with only 2 parents. We’re meant to have communities that share the load of raising all the children, we’re not birds for christ’s sake.

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      I went to high school with a girl who was I think #6 of 12. And yeah she was raised by siblings and raised siblings herself. It was actually somewhat similar to what my girlfriend experienced having a deadbeat mom and imprisoned dad.

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      At some point, the older kids are providing child care for the younger ones. But also, its very “infinite economic growth thanks to our ever-expanding frontier” understanding of the family dynamic. As soon as all your neighbors start to copy you, and families start bumping up against one another in their effort to cannibalize the surrounding wilderness, you get conflict. Expand far enough, and the conflicts become things of history - even of legend. The War of the Roses. The French and Indian Wars. The Romance of the Three Kingdoms. The Gaza Genocide.

      This is a family style game of The Tragedy of the Commons.

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    My political views are whatever this is.

    Well, this is poverty. Vote GOP and they’ll help you achieve it!

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      but also ironically the stereotypical american dream was only feasible for a short time thanks to the work of unions, which would be decried as horrible communists in modern america, and frankly the whole concept has a lot of socialist undertones in general which people love to ignore.

      It was thanks to strong union movements that people had such wealth, ever since the unions got beaten into a pulp workers have been paid less and less and at this point the idea of one dude supporting a spouse and 3 kids is fucking hilarious.

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    Their fantasy is seeing a barefoot and pregnant woman washing dishes and who’s never had an orgasm.