Telling a woman who says she doesn’t want kids “You’ll change your mind” is really shitty because
- it’s assigning motherhood to a person who is explicitly rejecting it
- it’s reinforcing gender roles
- it makes motherhood out to be something you do because you have to, not because you genuinely want to
- it’s infantilizing to make it seem like she can’t make decisions about her own life
- it’s invalidating of her desires which she is capable of knowing and communicating
- it’s telling a grown woman that you know what she wants better than she does