Knowing myself, I wouldn’t get much done, but that’s because babies are WAY more fun than dealing with my travel receipts.

The whole, “oh, I’m entitled to a child-free existence” mindset seems to be a Western construct in my experience. It’s bizarre, too, because how do these people think that they came to exist?

I don’t get it either, but like I said, it’s crazily heavily represented in online conversations about kids.

How about a Woman’s Empowerment Seminar provide childcare for attendees? Compassion is great, add to that meaningful support systems and it’s even better.

Listen, if you’re on a plane and you don’t pop an Ambien and get drunk on tiny bottles of gin as soon as the drinks cart comes around, then you’re responsible for whatever aggravation you’re still awake to notice, not the crying kid.

So what? This is such a white rich people thing, is my conclusion after working in a largely Asian immigrant community for the last few years. In my community, people bring their babies and kids lots and lots of places my rich White family would have felt deeply uncomfortable bringing kids. Occasionally it gets loud.…

If you really can’t handle a distraction for the 20-40 seconds it would take for the mother in the story to get her baby out the door she had helpfully positioned herself right next to, then maybe the average professional environment is not for you? Or perhaps you need to carry around noise-cancelling headphones.

While I agree there are certainly many adult-only events where its inappropriate to bring children... this was a conference on empowering women. Women have children. This seems like a perfect opportunity to buck the expected. How phenomenal would it have been if this women gave the presentation with her kid strapped…

The erasure of mothers, and in particular poorer mothers, is such an issue. It’s one of the ways the feminist movement makes it abundantly clear that the needs of upper-class white women are paramount, while everyone else needs to take a backseat.

I agree. I don’t understand why a noise a baby makes briefly is somehow so awful compared to all the other noises. Just get the fuck over your self if it bothers you so much - or like you say, buy some noise cancelling headphones.

I used to comment regularly on Jezebel for years (under a different name) and stopped because of the feeling the author describes when someone she assumed would be an ally made her feel unwelcome.

Oh for fuck’s sake. The attitude that you can’t go to someplace without your kid because it’s “professional” and that you need to have a babysitter or child-keeper at all times is anti-feminist to the core and supports notions that the only people who “deserve” to reproduce are the affluent.

Are... most of them “titans of late night tv”? Conan and Kimmel, sure... Fallon and Meyers, I guess. The rest of them? Nah.

What’s it like being “that guy”?

“Girrrrrl, I need a man whose poop fling game is on fleek.”
“Mmmhmm”

“Ohhh Girl, Harold is so cute!”
“Yeah, but his poop fling game is pretty weak”
“Oh no!”

In all fairness, most of the time when I hear people talk about white women and yoga, it’s usually not very favorable...

Happy Colobus Day to everyone! It’s truly fitting to have a special day to consider the contributions of our favorite monkey pals.

“Complete the look with this headband I just found under the couch.”