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Name: Radish
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As I state in my bio, I'm a conservative never-married (non-lesbian) non-mother over the age of 30.  This seems like a contradiction.  Conservatives hate women in the workplace, love marriage, etc.  Well...I would rather be a "happily married mother of three" but I haven't met anyone who wants to be the husband of an ugly software engineer.  I tell my mother that if God had wanted me to be married, he'd have made me someone else.  :)

One thing that's interesting to me is that outside of my family (ardent Lutheran on both sides), people seem to think that if I want a baby, I should just call a clinic and make a baby.  I'm fascinated by how quickly out-of-wedlock birth went from shameful mistake to celebrated choice!  But there seem to be a lot of messed-up fatherless kids wreaking havoc on the world already, and I'm not deluded enough to think that I'm too special to birth a statistic--poverty, drugs, crime...   In the future, if my career stabilizes, I'd like to help foster kids.  In the meantime, I have a cat.

I take a lot of grief about "only mothers are real women" from conservative women.  I don't believe you have to procreate before you can advocate limited government, increased national defense, border security, judges who judge rather than legislate, etc. 

I don't know any never-married women over 25 who aren't lesbians (which I suspected was because I'd lived in Iowa most of my life, but I haven't met any in Milwaukee, either).  If you are one, please drop me a line so I don't feel so alone!
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