Hot take: Chip and Joanna Gaines need to be called out for procreating

Fans of “Fixer Upper” no doubt have heard that stars Chip and Joanna Gaines have announced they’re having a fifth child. That’s good news, right?

In an opinion piece for Canada’s CBC News, Kristen Pyszczyk was surprised by (but not opposed to) some of the online backlash, “because it’s a sentiment so seldom heard in a society that generally celebrates procreation with almost militant cheerfulness.”

We can already see where this is going.

Idiotic. “Procreation is becoming a global public health concern, rather than a personal decision. So when people do irresponsible things like having five children, we absolutely need to be calling them out.” https://t.co/jnTIhtBkt5

— Ryan T. Anderson (@RyanTAnd) January 13, 2018

Pyszczyk continues:

While having a child or five is a very personal choice, it’s also a choice that affects everyone who inhabits our planet. So while many people might find the backlash unwarranted, it’s actually a conversation we need to have in order to challenge our uncritical acceptance of the life-fulfillment-through-procreation story.

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Now, as a feminist, I tend to oppose any cultural conversation that involves telling a woman what to do with her body. But women have long been told that they need to have kids to have a meaningful life, and they are groomed for motherhood from a very early age.

But we don’t often hear arguments for alternatives to motherhood. Women need to be presented with options for a fulfilling life that don’t involve taking 20 years of their lives to care for offspring. Changing the narrative around motherhood should help to offset some of the cultural conditioning we receive throughout our lives.

I cannot believe we need to "have a conversation" about how irresponsible it is to have multiple children. If a married couple can financially and emotionally support however many kids into becoming productive adults then more power to them! I hope they have 10 kids. #ridiculous https://t.co/rnARun2j04

— Emily Sisco (@siscodisco) January 13, 2018

We live in a world where it's cool to kill as many babies as we want but deemed virulent to have them. Never has any society been more wrong about anything. https://t.co/LFUX1VzXe8

— Todd Erzen (@DeaceOnline) January 13, 2018

https://twitter.com/DanJPBlackman/status/952269429764689927

So our survival as a species depends on not having children? Am I the only one who sees the flaw with this thinking? #sundaymorning https://t.co/NzBZPQmNkG

— Neil M (@Neil10790465) January 13, 2018

Truly disgusting stuff. https://t.co/4SURgE28oR

— Nathan Bohlig (@nathan_bohlig) January 13, 2018

Ryan as a former poster child let me say this and say it clearly. It is high time we round up all these people advocating for eugenics and show them how eugenics works. That will change their minds really quickly. It's a sad state of affairs when this becomes the public discord. https://t.co/nD8M8UvrEO

— Shall_Not_Be_Infringed (@Fr3edomofSpeech) January 13, 2018

https://twitter.com/_oversaturation/status/952279086713290752

Why don't they do that for the illegals; refugees, I wonder? It's just Americans that seem to bother the left. https://t.co/6rBJ5wlBo4

— mezzSINGchur (@mezzSINGchur) January 13, 2018

https://twitter.com/Communism_Kills/status/952313683203579905

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