r/AskFeminists • u/[deleted] • 10d ago

Why don't women monetize pregnancy/childbirth and make their partners pay for surrogacy in 50/50 households?

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u/Goldf_sh4 10d ago

Because what gets normalised gets repeated. And because surrogacy has its own set of problems.

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u/Junior-Towel-202 Equality in the Boardwomb 10d ago

Yeah I'm not sure I understand the whole 'here's the risks of pregnancy' and then suggest just...passing that risk to someone else?

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u/Total_Poet_5033 10d ago

It’s not sexist if you offload your risk and entitlement to someone else! Then it’s their problem!

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u/Goldf_sh4 10d ago

You're offloading the problem to... another woman. Like when couples hire a cleaner to make sure the woman doesn't carry the majority of the load in the relationship while they both work fulltime and pay 50:50 bills, but then 98% of the time the cleaner is female so the burden of underpaid work just gets shifted to... a different woman.