Childfree, pregnancy, stop touching me
2021 10 04 | journal
A woman I saw talking about being childfree mentioned that one of the reasons she was were some very specific feelings she had about pregnancy itself. I am also childfree, but my reasons didn't actually ever include pregnancy - though I certainly never wanted to experience it. But there is something that bothers me very specifically about pregnancy, and always has.
The most problematic aspect of pregnancy, to me, is the general public thinking you are now public property, public domain, and that they have the right to intrude on you no matter where or who you are, whether or not they know you, to the point where strangers will touch you without your consent. Some even get offended if you call them on it.
Stop violating a woman's space without her consent. Her body, and her baby, are not your business unless she invites you into her business.
Likely this stems, at least in part, from the number of ways in which my autonomy was violated as a child, and as an adult, but it still remains valid methinks. Just stop touching people without their permission, and stop assuming any business of another human being is yours by right.