So do women really regret motherhood? Or are they just angry that they don't have the village that their grandmothers used to have? Now, that, in my humble opinion, would have been a very interesting question that a journalist from the Cut could have posed in her most recent article. But it was way easier for her to just, you know, paint with a broad stroke to cherry pick an angle to fit her and the Cut's anti-natalist agenda. Per usual, par for the course with these journalists. Now before we dive into today's episode and you hear all of my thoughts on this viral regretting motherhood story. If you want behind the scenes content, maybe me talking about how I don't regret motherhood. You can check out cooper confidential.com. That is my subscription platform that I built for you guys from the ground up. No censorship. If I ever get D platform, that's where I'll be. That's where all the behind the scenes, farm vlog, all of that fun stuff lives. All right, so let's just dive into this story. This week in a now viral article, New York Magazine and the Cut, the Cut is under New York magazine, but New York Magazine and the Cut intentionally distorted the stories of three mothers to promote their own anti-children agenda.

And the headline, you've probably seen it, if you've been on X in the last 48 hours,

was very simple. It reads, I regret having children. And so what, in my opinion, could have

been a really productive conversation about motherhood and the way that society at large

treats and supports mothers,

or maybe doesn't support mothers, ended up being whittled down to something incredibly toxic and superficial.

I mean, look at the way they promoted this article on X. This was the tweet.

They got the millions and millions of impressions, rightfully so.

Sooner or later, everyone has to decide whether to give up lazy weekends, disposable income, and the overall peace of mind to have a baby instead. For many of those on the fence, one anxiety looms large. What if I make the wrong choice? Parent regret is more common than you might think. The R-slash-regretful parent subreddit alone gets around 70,000 weekly visitors who anonymously commiserate. Though stigma makes it harder to admit in real life. All right, so we're going to get into all of that later, but I just want to focus on the way that they promoted this article. Giving up lazy weekends, disposable incomes, overall peace of mind to have a baby instead. They're basically saying you can't have a joyful life with a child. So already we know the premise that New York Magazine and this journalist is working from. They are already telling us that they are anti-natalist. Now from there, they jump into talking about regretful parents, the 70,000 users who are commiserating on the subreddit, which, in my opinion, seems like a very small number compared to the 5 billion parents that exist on this earth. But Newark Magazine is telling us that that is a lot of parents.

But regardless, the reason why I am reading you this tweet before we actually get into the article

is because based on this post alone, it would be completely reasonable to assume, and I certainly

did assume, that this article was about vapid women who just wanted to do Pilates and get

drunk at brunch and travel, go find themselves instead of spending time with their kids or instead of having kids. Women who like most of the, you know, child-free subreddit, to talk about another subreddit, gleefully talk about how the only thing they care about is being selfish and they have a disinterest and commitment and responsibility. That is what I was expecting based on this tweet. And so understandably, without even clicking on the article, people were quick to leave their normal comments about how feminism has ruined women and women have been lied to when these women are so ridiculous and dumb and they don't understand the fulfillment and the empowerment that motherhood brings. You know, they shouldn't be climbing a corporate ladder, all of the normal comments that I agree with, completely agree with, but those are the comments that were under this post. And again, all of that is fair because those are the stories that we see coming out of the mainstream media more often than not. But this article, once we actually got into it, wasn't really about those kinds of women. And the issues that these women were facing, these three mothers that make up this article, the issues they are facing are anything but superficial. And so the New York Magazine making that post,

actually putting words in these mother's mouths saying, I regret motherhood, making that the title,

I actually think they did a massive disservice to those mothers who were being vulnerable and

honest, and they did a massive disservice to culture at large. Because honestly, the article

was more about marrying the wrong person and a lack of modern day villages from others. I just

want you to listen to a couple of these excerpts. So to break down how this article is laid out,

the interviewer talks to three different moms, and she essentially summarizes their stories.

And so I just want to take you through a few different pieces of each of these mom's

stories.

So mom won.

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