I was just going to say "fuck you Jon Voight" but I guess this is a more considerate response.

Right? I'm so glad I'm barren.

I feel like sometimes people who haven't had kids think people who aren't super sunshiney about birth and motherhood are just trying to ruin it for them. That it's not really *that* bad.

I think often people underestimate how hard motherhood will be and I think other people are pleasantly surprised by how joyful it…

It may not have been your intention to be bitchy, but the "in case you didn't know" comment thrown in there definitely came with a condescending vibe - at least to (obviously) some people other than you. Tone in writing can be construed in different ways, so not sure why you can't just agree to disagree here.

Oh I hear ya...we can all have different opinions/experiences/beliefs/etc, but that's no reason to be a dick. I love great discussions, but condescending people can suck it. There's no reason or call for it unless someone was an ignorant jerk to begin with, which you weren't. I thought you hit the nail on the…

I'm a new mom with a three month old and I want this lingerie. I kind of feel like I HAVE to feel frumpy in the sense that if I dare share my personal experience (pregnancy: easy and glowing, body: no stretch marks, lost all the weight in weeks from breastfeeding alone, and left with the same body I had pre-pregnancy…

Tracy's articles literally scare me to no end

You are my favorite. I just want you to know that.

Yes, talking about farts makes you a regular Susan B. Anthony. We shall overcome.

Live and let live, you do you, etc. It's strange to me that people perform gross bodily functions in front of people they want to get naked with. I know that in some ways I'm weird and retro for having old-school manners, but I've accepted that, and luckily for me, so has the husband unit. I'm glad you and your…

Trust me- I am stubborn as fuck. I will sooner poof up like a puffer fish than pass gas. I am a lady. A stubborn ass lady.

Me? I find motherhood neither miraculous nor mythic. It's something I would never even consider, like going spelunking, or playing mah-johngg, or traveling to Delaware.

Oh ho, I am way older than 30. ;) And my life has been no picnic, believe me. I don't think you're being judgmental. I am who I am! And yes, I'm declaritive and opinionated and a probably a giant pain in the arse (although a well-mannered, non-farting one). Your comments have been fun and thoughtful to read. I like to…

dude, you're not the only one picking up on a tone more bitter than orange juice after toothpaste. It's eye-rollingly exasperating.

Nah, you were being a bitch and got called out.

I mean this in the nicest way, but do you really need to hear about some other woman's farts? I mean, is motherhood so mundane that this is actually interesting for you to read?

Thank god, someone else who thinks fancy lingerie is nice and doesn't want to hear about the author's farts.

I'm not a mother, and I have no plans to be. But the bitterness that comes off the posts by this author ... I mean, is that helpful to you as a mother, seriously? Sarcasm for sarcasm's sake and talking about farts? I mean it moved this non-mother to say something because it seems so extreme. I'm not asking to have the…

Good lord. Could you make motherhood sound more joyless? Again?

That's definitely possible. It just seems really convenient, what with AA sending her so much swag—feels like a PR-concoction to me (including her treatment at the pool...) more than anything else.