thwump

Today is the kind of day where I wish to shout "Have you the BRAIN WORMS?!?" at many many people.

However, cutie-pie pictures! Yay!

I assume that if people want me to know things about their personal lives, they'll tell me. If I'm not in the need-to-know group, that's their business and not mine.

At my off-site last week, one of my co-workers was talking about the fact that she didn't want to have kids, and another one seemed almost offended by the notion. When Co-Worker A said she didn't think she'd make a good mother, Co-Worker B said, "You don't know that!" Worse was when another one, Co-Worker C, said he and his wife were thinking of adopting rather than having their own child because why bring another child into this world when there are so many kids out there who need a family? And, again, Co-Worker B became very adamant about her position, telling him there wasn't actually this huge glut of kids in need of adoption, and there were all these women who were unable to have children of their own, and here they were, able to produce a child but refusing to, instead taking from the stock of children that could go to women who couldn't have their own kids, and it's hard to mold a child taken in at the age of four, and...it was all very strange, and I was surprised neither one of them actually got pissy with her.

It certainly did not feel like it! We sat and chatted while the kids were playing like we've known each other forever.

Yeah, it did. And we'll definitely do that more. We'll be back in Michigan in July. *hint hint*

Pushy breeders are nobody's friend.

BWAH! I'm putting that on a t-shirt.

Maybe we humans just evolved the desire to make everyone else have kids because it gave us an advantage over groups of humans that didn't breed as much.

At my off-site last week, one of my co-workers was talking about the fact that she didn't want to have kids, and another one seemed almost offended by the notion.

Do these people who think that those who choose not to have children are judging them who have or otherwise invalidating their choice to have children? I do not get why people get so het up about other people's choices. Then again, these are probably the same people who think that Teh Gays getting married it will ruin it for the rest of us.

Not to say I haven't run into Assholeriffic Child-FREE folks. @@ Assholes are assholes, regardless of parental status, I guess.

One good thing about getting married at age 50? No "having kids" questions.

Co-Worker B said, "You don't know that!"

For starters, A would know far better than B does.

Sorry. B just hit one of my peeviest pet peeves there.

Assholes are assholes, regardless of parental status

Yup. There's far too much asshattery in the world to be confined to a single viewpoint.

[eta: Though I will say that, IME, "So, when are you having kids?" is a more socially acceptable form of presumptive nosiness than the other way around.]