June 30, 2003. Comment by Phloxina:-
Just to start things off. Does anybody have any comments about us?
July 2, 2003. Comment by Trifold:-
Sure. I think you guys are cool! (And where have you been these days?) More later.
July 7, 2003. Comment by John 2452:-
I was just wondering, if you could give me your reasons why you as a woman wouldn't want to have kids. I very curious about how women feel about being childfree. I'm considering a vasectomy and have been doing research on it, but I hardly ever hear a woman's point of view about not wanting children. Any insight will be much appreciated. Thanks!
August 9, 2003. Comment by Phloxina:-
My essential familial background is non-european extended family, my education pro-feminist, west-european. I cannot reconcile my experience of the attitude 'women are for bed and beating' with with my knowledge that there is far more to life than just that. Being cf is, in part, a protest against my paternal male uncles and cousins and their barbaric attitudes to half the world's population. Together we (Phlox and me) now have more than 30, first degree, nephews and nieces with probably more than 400 of second degree and beyond. Not having children means being able to sit back from the incestuous politics of the extended family and develop one's own abilities and psyche.