• GreenKnight23
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    2 days ago

    Growing up is realizing that having kids is both optional and not a sign of being grown up.

    growing up is realizing that the world doesn’t revolve around you or your needs.

    growing up means putting your needs and desires second for someone else that you care about.

    growing up is about learning that your perspective is limited by your own inability to empathize.

    growing up is learning that your responsibilities aren’t optional.

    I’m not saying you need to have kids to grow up. what I am saying is that bitching and moaning about parents taking the time away from work to parent their kids is such a tone-deaf and childish perspective and anyone who thinks this argument has any merit clearly lacks the life experience and emotional maturity of an adult.

    be child free I couldn’t give any less fucks since it’s a personal choice. however, don’t expect parents to sit by and allow you to unjustly shame them because the company you work for is a piece of shit that abuses childfree employees. take it up with your employer and lodge complaints against policies with HR.

    that’s the thing I hate the most about childfree communities, the loudest most outspoken members often expect special treatment for simply existing as they always have and shame parents for the extra support employers give.

    you wouldn’t bitch about the wheelchair ramps for disabled employees though, would you? how about the uniquely colored TPS reports for the colorblind employees? While we’re at it, why not bitch about the screen readers for the visually impaired employees?

    yeah…didn’t think so.

    anyone with a brain can have a job, but you have to have perspective and empathy to have kids.

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      Nobody who comes into a childfeee comm to whine about something a childfeee person said about breeders in their own life gets to say a fucking word about maturity. Sorry you were too stupid to figure out how birth control works or too blind to see how shitty your life as a diaper slave would be, but you don’t get to come in here and act like youre fucking superior for it.

      Every single person with loved ones understands

      putting your needs and desires second for someone else that you care about.

      You aren’t fucking special just because you fucked raw.

      Deciding to have kids is exactly that. A decision. You made a choice that you knew would come with sacrifices, then immediately began spending the next twenty years trying to get people who didn’t make that choice to share the sacrifices.

      From extra work breaks to coming in sick after your grubby little sticky-fingered germ factory spread the daycare flu around your house so we can all experience it too, you make everyone around you worse off bcs you’re entitled to a “village”, right? Case in point:

      you wouldn’t removed about the wheelchair ramps for disabled employees though, would you? how about the uniquely colored TPS reports for the colorblind employees? While we’re at it, why not removed about the screen readers for the visually impaired employees?

      Absolutely none of those things require me to do extra work to pick up someone’s slack. I go to work with a disability every day, I don’t need anyone else to cover any of my work for me. That’s the fucking difference.

      anyone with a brain can have a job, but you have to have perspective and empathy to have kids.

      I don’t believe you’ve ever had a job or known any parents if you think either of those things are true. Plenty of brainless dipshits have jobs. Hell, most of them make management. And as a class, most parents perspective and empathy ends just outside their nuclear family. Hence why they think other people doing their jobs while they fuck off for parenting reasons is the same thing as a.fucking wheelchair ramp.

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        20 hours ago

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        I stopped reading when you used “breeders” because of the enormous ick factor.

        pretty gross dude…you sound like a lonely incel.

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          Lol, then you made the right choice. You and I will never have anything to talk about.

          The people clinging to the sexual mores of the bronze age goat fuckers who invented those sexual mores to maximize the price they could get for selling their preteen daughters to their middle aged neighbors don’t get taken seriously when they use Internet buzzwords they don’t even know the definition of to insult people making arguments they hate for challenging social norms but they know they can’t refute.