Woman Harassed Online for Saying She Doesn't Want Children
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When Holly Brockwell spoke to the BBC about her decision not to have children, she knew she might be criticised on social media. But the attacks went far beyond what she had expected - accusations of selfishness soon turned into vitriolic abuse that made her deactivate her Twitter account.
"The fact is, there's nothing about creating another human that appeals to me," 29-year-old Holly Brockwell wrote in a story we published at the weekend, explaining why she wants to be sterilised.
Despite seeing a number of doctors she has so far not been able to undergo the procedure, either on the National Health Service or privately.
There were other much worse comments. "Things that I can't repeat and I would never say to anyone no matter what they had done," she says. "Those things are never justified. Some of the words that were used were very gender specific - words that wouldn't have been said to a man in the same situation. And I feel like that's significant because it was nearly all from men - although there were a couple from women - men trying control a woman's body.
This is why we still need feminism now and we'll need it for ages to come. A woman's purpose is not to have children, she is free to procreate if she so desires but that is not her function. Same for men, but society already knows this. Those cowards hiding behind Twitter can seethe.
One thing I like about white women is how so many of them refuse to have children, and when they do they have just 1 or 2 (thank you feminism in the West!!!). The world is in danger of overpopulation so they're helping out a bit.
