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PaperclipPerfector  8mo ago (text post)   2741 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for March 1, 2024

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Interesting. I suppose, though, that the daughter is still likely to continue your genetic legacy, while the son probably isn’t.

Perhaps.

Indeed, historically and prehistorically-speaking, a daughter would be more likely to give you at least one grandchild compared to a son. However, a son can potentially give you many, such that the median/average is a wash, with maybe the average tilting in favor of a son (depending on who you are).

Especially in modern-times, there’s no guarantee a whoredaughter will provide more grandchildren than a failson, despite the dick and creampies she’s taken.

A failson might even provide more grandchildren than a success-son. A failson who spent his 20s as a bartender, leaving three children with some combination of babies’ mommas. Or a failson who, as a school teacher, married a former student in her late teens or early 20s, and they went on to have three or more children.

Versus a success-son, who Was a Decent Person and adhered faithfully to a PMC girl he met in undergrad, graduate school, or at work, after she had accumulated some miles under her belt. They get married in their late 20s to mid 30s, where they might eventually eke out a child or two with everyone’s fingers crossed. Zero children is a material possibility.

Another reason why having mutiple children is clutch, to diversify your offspring outcomes (and potential heartbreaks, whether it be failsons or whoredaughters).

Reading this cold hearted analysis mixed with terms like cream pies...it just makes me sad. Is this really the lense through which anyone should be viewing the world?

None of us are dukes of winchester that need to carry on the family line for the good of the country.

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