• velma@sh.itjust.works
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    8 hours ago

    Before modern medicine, often people would have a ton of kids because they would frequently die.

    Before modern medicine, birth control and abortions were much harder to come by, too.

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        7 hours ago

        God forbid you point that out though, there’s a bunch of people who think this was all consensual.

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        6 hours ago

        This is a really important factor here that it wasn’t exactly “Grandma’s” choosing (not to make the meme unfunny but…) Yeah, more often than not it was “Grandpa” with no choice in the matter.