Normally, I am not one of *those* CFers. I don't want kids. Yours are fine. I enjoy reading Booj. I am a teacher FFS. If you want to be knocked up and are, I am truly happy for you. If you don't want to be and are not, awesome! Let's have a drink. I don't GET the desire, never having felt that bio clock once. Did I hit snooze or throw it through a window?? I dunno. However, certain things make me want to SCREAM at breeders to STFU. If you think this might offend you, you might want to stop reading.
G showed me THIS ARTICLE last night. This morning, I am still fuming. Not about the article, mind you, but about the mindless fucking comments but mindless fucking breeders that followed.
One comment, I want to cut and paste and plaster all over parenting forums.
"Steve & Liesel have said what I was going to say: this would be about the 10th article I've read in The Age over the past few years on this "issue". It is BORING, BORING, BORING. Clem, if that's really your name, just get on with your life and stop whingeing about this sort of thing. You don't want kids - good luck to you. Couldn't care less & don't want to read articles about it. And Age editors: stop printing articles on this really tedious subject.
Peter | Northcote - June 21, 2011, 11:14AM"
Now, if I can edit this to read "This would be about the 1000000000th article I've read in The Age over the past few DAYS on this "issue". It is BORING, BORING, BORING. Parents, just get on with your life and stop whingeing about this sort of thing. You wanted kids - good luck to you. Couldn't care less & don't want to read articles about it. And Age editors: stop printing articles on this really tedious subject." and then paste this on every single fucking article about parenting or in comments when someone bemoans "Won't someone think of the children" or feels that bringing up the fact that they are a parent means they should get special treatment, I'd feel better. The majority of people have or want kids. This does not make it special when EVERYONE is doing it.
What I wish would happen is that Clem or whomever managed to get This Section peppered with those comments and removed. Does the paper (online or print) NEED a baby section? I think not. You can't read the paper today without being bombarded with ads and baby info. Even my Facebook is trying to convince me to shit one out, with IVF and "Why aren't you a mother" ads on the side.
Have em, have 19 (bit excessive), don't have em, can't have em... why does everyone think that they get a say in what a woman does with her uterus? If you have em, people want you to have more. Can't have one. Oh no. That's selfish. Have more than 3? OMG You're insane having so many? Don't you know about birth control?? Can't have em? Awww...you poor thing, have you considered adoption (bc that's EASY!) or IVF (which is SO cheap!)? Don't want em? What's WRONG with you? Clearly, you are not a real woman. Have you no heart?
While parents may think that their kids are the reincarnation of jeebus and the sun shines out their babies bottoms (last I checked, that is the LAST thing that came out of a baby's bottom!!!), having a baby is NOT a big deal. It's what 'should' happen. As someone said in the comments :"Sure, "congratulations" are in order, but getting pregnant doesn't usually involve a special skill. We've being doing it for a good million years and it takes as much work on average from a PhD as it does a drunk 16 year old." Christ, if Bristol Palin can do it....
*sigh*
720am and my blood is boiling. Maybe a good thing, since it's f'n cold here this AM.
Oh, and a bonus article: Whining is the worst sound. Later today, the papers will report that water is wet and that the sky is blue. THANK YOU CAPTAIN OBVIOUS! You're welcome, No-Shit Boy!
Since I have most likely offended people, unfriending line to the left please.
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