Moran discusses society's need for woman to reproduce and that once you reach a certain age, children should be the only thing a woman is concerned about. The way she sees it is that society has a sick obsession with women settling down and starting a family without realizing that some women do not want to start families and have children. She says that some women feel their purpose on earth is to work or go to school or be a celebrity and do not want to give any of this up. The view society has on these types of women is that they are doing their life the wrong way or are just plain weird. Moran says that what everyone is really saying when they ask "When are you going to have kids?", is "When are you going to ruin everything you have worked for and start a family?". Another topic on this that she discusses is that people consider these types of women to be selfish, which is in fact wrong. These so called "selfish" women could be the ones to end world hunger or find the cure to cancer which does not sound selfish to me at all. Moran says that if anyone had any common sense at all, we should be telling these women to stop having children because "First World babies are eating this planet like termites."
I think that Moran adequately proves her point with her evidence because women in this day and age should not be expected to have children whatsoever. Like Moran says, there are plenty of women who will continue to repopulate the earth with their children and there should not be a need to force women who do not want kids, think they need to submit themselves to this at minimum 18 year commitment. Women have the right to decide what they want to do with their lives and some are just not open to becoming maternal like society would like them to. Some women have high powering jobs that they do not want to give up because they believe they are doing something good already with themselves and Moran does an excellent job in explaining why.
You had claimed that she says that some women feel their purpose on earth is to work or go to school or be a celebrity and do not want to give any of this up. The way I interpreted the essay was different. I got the opposite. Those women feel that their main purpose was to in fact have the children, start the family, “fuck it all up”. I do not think that they all want to be celebrities, Moran gave many examples about how woman feel the pressure and the need to have children such as interviewers and reporters always asking the same questions “when are you going to have kids?” not “do you want children?” and all about the woman’s body clock and her time and how she needs to plan and act fast before time runs out. And even when a woman does have one the next question is when are they going to pop out another one. To me this essay was full of detailed examples of how society acts and then real world explanations about how woman have a better purpose in life than to just simply have children. She goes in depth about how mother hood lessons can actually easily be taught. But Moran says that the facts are that women will still continue to pop out those babies and the world isn’t going to run but women shouldn’t feel pressured and should decided on their own if they want babies or not.
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