I’m sure she is in on it, but how stupid. I’m not going to watch the video, because the description is really enough for me.

Can we please stop paying attention to this asshole? Either it’s all staged, or he’s an abusive asshole who is going to give this woman PTSD.

At least one and often multiple people in these discussions always tell me that I’m deeply biased because I’m a mother, and so it’s impossible for me to be rational and dispassionate on the issue like people who have never reproduced.

Not from the standpoint that not giving birth to a person means you should never have to be exposed to them, there isn’t. Obviously the situations are quite different (just as a “howling three-year-old” disrupting a lecture is quite different than the situation described in this post), but the rationale is equally…

I never realized how much people-feminists or otherwise-looked down on mothers until I had my son. To me, attachment parenting was and is a rebellious act. Breastfeeding and keeping your child close is not a possibility for a lot of women-for economic and social reasons. For me, I changed my entire life and took a…

High Five to you for making decisions that work for you!

My wife and I are in a similar situation - she works full time and I work part time when she isn’t working, and take care of our son.
We did the math and one of us (most likely me, since I earn less currently) would have to take another job just to afford child…

And I don’t really understand it. So what if you hate kids? I may hate the color pink and Katy Perry, but if my coworker wants to wear pink every day and listen to Katy, loudly, on her headphones, that’s my problem to get over.

The comments here are outrageously obnoxious and most certainly by clueless women who either do not have children (and therefore cannot empathize whatsoever) or privileged women who had babysitters/nannies/families/etc at hand. I stand with you.

Thank you so much for saying this. I visit everyday but I comment infrequently and your comment helped me understand why.

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.

Thank you, I’m reading the comments and wondering if a bunch of trolls showed up because dafuq?

I wish more people realized how common it is for stay at home parents to want to go back to work. This was absolutely the situation for my husband with our first. But if you can’t afford to take on debt, every single month, when their salary doesn’t cover child care, then what can you do?

And, of course, when you…

I don’t even see how “not liking kids” is a valid point when you’re talking about where kids should be and where they shouldn’t. There are some age demographics that I struggle to get along with but I don’t have any say of where they are allowed to be. Unless an event is explicitly 18+, it’s up to the parent. Sorry…

Though there’s also just the basic problem that a lot of people really hate kids, and believe they should never have to encounter them in public.

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.

Why are you so focused on the possibility that the author is lying about how loud her kid was? Listen, I know we all have our own personal examples of oblivious parents letting their screaming kids ruin our day, but that doesn’t have to be the case - and I think that focusing on that side of things, the mere…

It’s against feminism to pretend that you have to hide your children away because a woman’s conference must be divorced from kids and not present at all. Children make noise, but if your reaction to a baby being visible is “Get it out of here. This women’s conference about women’s lives is NOT about babies” is part of…

This story is bullshit, and the actions of her “friend” were bullshit, too. Here is some inspiration for all the working moms from the Italian MEP Licia Ronzulli.

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.