Full clarity, I edited this so that the image wasn’t miles long, full original can be seen here.

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    21 hours ago

    your body is your capital

    same vibe as

    work will set you free

    if her body is her capital, men sell their body to make money through physical means. if anything, men should be more ashamed that they have more in common with whores than camgirls.

    (not that anyone should feel ashamed for how they provide for themselves or their family, but people who throw stones should live in glass houses and all that)

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    I don’t understand this at all, but I think they are two ordinary people trying to diminish each other because of their choices in life, or something. This is why I don’t like Twitter, Meta networks and Reddit. Good luck to these people.

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    Being on Twitter in 2026 is crazy. Seemingly paying for that shit even more.

    Pushing 40 with no kids and couldn’t be happier about that.

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      And even if you wanted kids, it’s fine. Late 30’s here, happy I have none right now, and still planning to have some. Postponing dreams until a better place isn’t a bad thing at all.

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      I’m 39. Partner is 40. Married over 8 years.

      More than once we’ve had a shit day with weather, or something breaking in the house, or dogs being sick, etc etc… And we’ll turn to each other and say “Imagine we also had kids?”

      Fuck. All. Of. That.

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          21 hours ago

          You have The clarity to recognize that you would need to step up if the situation arose.

          I think you would do good

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        2 days ago

        Imagine thinking the same about all the good moments instead of only focusing on the bad stuff.

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          Some people just aren’t interested in having kids. I’ve had countless great moments in my life I will always remember fondly. There isn’t a single one of those moments I think would’ve been better if I had a kid lol. I don’t think my life would be worse, just different.

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            22 hours ago

            Kids are a blessing you don’t miss if you don’t have them, and can’t imagine living without when you do

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              21 hours ago

              Incorrect. My mother never let me forget that she regretted not following through with aborting me. She always imagined how much better life would have been without me.

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                For me that is so mind-boggling to hear. I am really sorry for you, and that bitch did not deserve you.

                I became a father quite late, and had/have a good life before and after. Just very different lives. Less time for my hobbies, friends, projects, but spending time with someone who loves Legos, drawing, making loud noises for the heck of it fills me with joy.

                My own parents while loving never really made feel like I was a priority. So I never miss a chance telling my son that I so happy it was him I got, and how much I love him.

                I hope you are in better place now, because you deserve it.

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            There’s been tons of moments I’ve shared with friends who have kids who I’ve seen and experienced with and literally thought “that must feel amazing”.

            Then I go home to a quiet house, feed my farm animals, and just… Quit life for a few hours. Nothing else to worry about. I’m sure there is a ton of emotional and rewarding moments having children, but I appreciate the rest of the time where I just don’t ever have to worry about them.

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          Imagine thinking of bearing children into a less habitable world because of climate change, and its resulting ecological decline and social and economic strife.

          I get what where you are coming from, I’d like to have children some day, but is it fair to have children in a clearly becoming bleak future? Never mind wars and economic recessions, because human society always recover from it. But climate change? It is a different beast than hunger or wars because it renders the entire planet inhospitable. Modern human society is not able to tackle or evolve from the rapid environmental changes caused by us.

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          Imagine thinking of all the money we need to spend on a farm through a single income household while also imagining we needed to spend it on other humans.

          We’re barely getting by as is. Now add a tiny human or two to that. Everyone is miserable and nothing gets done. Two Neurodivergent humans who barely function on a good day dealing with all the chaos of modern life and financial restrictions… “but think of the good moments”.

          I have that with my dog. He jumps up on me every day I come home from work.

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              The one who past last May did. We’re back up to two but there’s still a soul missing from the house. But our newest seems to have absorbed some of his personality with how she acts. It’s not the same, it never will be, but it’s somehow familiar.

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                I’m glad to hear your coping. I’m on the opposite end. I don’t do pets and I do have a child. At the end of the day it’s whatever keeps you happy given the circumstances. Everybody is different.

                Sorry in advance, unexpected brain dump inbound. Sadly, evolution doesn’t factor in happiness or anything apart the ability to procreate and survival of a species. We are living in a time where we way outlive our need to be here. No wonder suicide rates are higher after “mid life” and crazy biological processes happen like menopause. Survival in later life is irrelevant from an evolutionary point of view. But here we are.

                Child or no child. Dog or no dog. Let’s all do what we can to be happy and support those who we can support on the way.

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                  No apologies needed. Be good and do good. In the end that’s what is important. It doesn’t matter how you go through life, how you procreate, who you fuck, or what you do. As long as you leave the world at the end of the day better for those behind you. Spread love to those you love and those who don’t love you because they need it.

                  Be the change you want to see.

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      2 days ago

      Pushing 50 and no kids, no regrets. It randomly came up talking with friends last week and my husband literally barked with laughter “i fuckin’ sank that ship 20 years ago looool”

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    Bro it’s 2026. Almost every woman with children in my close circle who is of my generation had their first kid in their thirties. Like raising a kid is much easier when you have a stable financial foundation.

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      24 hours ago

      The average age for first childbirth is 29.6 years old. It’s absolutely the norm to have kids at an older age.

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      I have a friend who had his first at 18, I had my first at 36. We honestly cant work out who had/has it easier.

      He had to scrimp and stretch every penny he could get his hands on. But he was young, had energy and his parents were young enough to help alot.

      I’m financially secure (enough and for now) but I’m always tired as fuck, short on time and the grandparents probably consume as much time as they save.

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      All the ones in my circle who had kids in their 20s are miserable. The rest are childless and much happier (at least given the times we’re living in).

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    I kinda feel she described herself as an “older woman” just for the rage bait.

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          I listened to a podcast about aging and statistics. Your highest survival chance is just when you hit puberty. After that your risk only keeps going up. There’s no evolution benefits with age.

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            What I think is funny (and oddly satisfying mathematically) is that life expectancy goes up as you get older. Like, at birth your life expectancy may be 75, but those who make it to 70 are predicted to live, on average to 80, and if you make it to 80, you are predicted to make it to 85 and so on (I don’t remember the exact numbers).

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    on the one hand, men in glass houses have no business throwing stones

    what is on the other hand???

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      The link in the description has the full comment. OP said that they cropped the original image to keep it from being super long.

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        I actually thought it was just a rhetorical joke setup. Like, there is no other hand.

        But no, he actually blames the woman herself.

        On the one hand, men in glass houses have no business throwing stones.

        He was wrong for that & should’ve known better.

        On the other, he can’t post nudes online as his meal ticket the way you can.

        Beauty privilege is as real as financial privilege; partly earned, mostly inherited. As an OF creator, your body is capital.

        On top of that, for the past several decades, government rigged hiring & university enrollment in your favor, excluding & impoverishing heterosexual white men in particular.

        You are, to some extent, to blame for his poverty, & now you’re dunking on a homeless man from a position of historically unprecedented privilege because of a mild barb. You reveal more of your inner ugliness than you likely intend.

        Lmao “It’s everyone else’s fault I suck!”

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          for the past several decades, government rigged hiring & university enrollment in your favor, excluding & impoverishing heterosexual white men in particular.

          tbf university specifically doesn’t turn out to actually be financially rewarding today; lots of people have degrees but it doesn’t really help them on the labor market.

          and i even argue that DEI hiring does not happen so much because it’s government mandated but because companies prefer the cheaper labor that they get from women, because they often do comparable labor but get lower wages, so the company saves some money. DEI is just an excuse the company brings forward to justify it in front of their male employees, so the management doesn’t get hated for replacing the workforce with other, cheaper workforce. at least that’s my guess if i had to make one.

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            Keep in mind, she’s to blame for a man’s “poverty” who, unprovoked, said “Pushing 30 in 2026 with no kids is Crazy.”

            The whole thing is accidental performance art.

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            I honestly even forgot the “roughin’ it for clout” guy started the whole thing by saying

            Pushing 30 with no kids in 2026 is Crazy

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          Wow. But I can almost guarantee he would unironically wax principled about the importance of personal responsibility.

          Sense may be common, but self-awareness seems elusive to many.

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    You excluded the part where the guy literally said she was to blame for his poverty… Because DEI I guess. Lmfao two very deranged men.

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    Since when was 28 “older women”?

    I feel like super old and I’m only in mid-30s

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      The original post was a tongue in cheek joke by the girl, she does not really think 28 is an older woman.

      Can people just not parse jokes or read nuance anymore?

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        This is the internet.

        No matter how many examples you can pull to show us why we should know it’s a joke/satire, there are 10,000 examples of someone being completely serious.

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          You know… I was going to write a joke that ‘you can’t fool me, you all only exist on my phone.’

          Then I thought there probably will be AI-run forums running just for one user, and responding to their posts and comments with positivity and praise to stroke their egos, and I made myself sigh.

          And now you have to read my deluded thoughts - which is dragging me back to reality, yep… this is the internet.

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        Yeah, took me awhile to adjust from reddit where the default is sarcasm. You gotta remember where you are, neurodivergency abounds on the Fediverse.

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        A good number of us on the fediverse are autistic so nuance doesn’t alway get parsed properly.

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      early 40s and I don’t feel old at all. Yet my younger zoomer coworkers behave like life is over at 24-26. Last time I asked my parents (boomers), they told me they started feeling old in their early 30s. Might be a generational thing.

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        I finally feel like an adult but I think that’s less to do with my age and far more to do with my family, career and financial status. Physically I’m in far better shape now than I was a decade ago, so I’ve got that going for me at least!

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        Yeah idk, I’m 35 and I’ve felt like a teenager trapped in a slowly decaying meat prison since I was like… 17 maybe? Even as I graduated, got a job, got married, started a family… Every step it was just like “Surely this is where I finally start to feel like a real Grown-Up,” and every time it just doesn’t change. I still feel like a stupid teenager pretending to be an adult. One that does an alright job pretending mind you, but I still feel like I’m just pretending even after this long.

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        I suspect.your coochie’s so roomy they’re thinking of turning it into lowincome housing…cheap af, hella spacious, and already has a lot of traffic.

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          already has a lot of traffic

          Unlike your penis. Which is quite obvious with the way you comment.

          Stop blaming women for your own problems caused by your own misogynist mindset. You are your own worst enemy, not women.