He wants to know so he can counter with the exact perfect thing to insult her with in return. I am certain of this.

Exactly: “Give me specific reasons so I can refute each one of them and prove you wrong.”

“How is that working out for you” is the moment when I flew into an apoplectic fit. Such an obnoxious, arrogant thing to say—as if the mere fact that someone is single means they’ve been a failure in all past relationships, and that failure is because that single person just doesn’t know what’s good for them.

Yeah, any man who wants to know why you won’t date him really just wants to try to change your mind.

Anda: If she’s not interested, I want to understand why; it won’t hurt my feelings.

“I consider myself to be more respectful to women than the average guy”

“I can offer you my forgiveness, which is—and forever will be—the only part of me that you can ever claim as yours.”

I read the whole letter and it’s spot-on. These women are class acts.

No, there aren’t, but the parents of humans need something to be sanctimonious about to make themselves feel better during the times they don’t love parenting.

I’ve noticed that there is a vocal minority of Jezzies that love to shit on animal lovers and think that if you care about animal welfare issues you must be completely indifferent to human suffering. As if they spend every moment of their lives thinking about racism and economic disparity and have never had any other…

They generally aren’t, unless they’re service dogs. There are restaurants and cafes that allow anyone to bring dogs, but they’re not terribly common, and easy to avoid. And there are pet friendly workplaces, but they’re also rare.

The whole I didn’t have kids for me, I did it for them. *pffffft*

I read that linked article on Friday and OMG, the smugness and superiority of the author just pissed me right the fuck off. Like, REALLY? It just seemed like s/he (and some of the commenters) desperately need their designation as “real” parents as some kind of status symbol, because who on the planet could possibly be…

Even better: “Children’s wellbeing needs to be top priority. If these animal lovers saw a bunny rabbit and a child drowning in the Icelandic sea, they would save the bunny rabbit and feed the child to a killer whale”!!!

Lol, dude. I have a kid, but thanks anyway. And I would never get a dog. Never. And I’m planning on having a second kid. But I can’t even handle one dog. What does that tell you? ETA I am fucking joking cmon

It was a joke.

I don’t think most people who refer to their pets as kids or call themselves their pet’s mom or dad are seriously equating the two experiences. As I said elsewhere, there are lots of actual parents who use that terminology when referring to their pets, and I doubt they’re all so delusional as to make a literal…

What most of those articles seem to have in common is that the authors sound like they really don’t like having children, so it offends them when others have it “easy” by just having pets and using parenthood language. If you sincerely enjoyed your children, you’d probably feel pity or at least be neutral about pet…

I read the linked post when it went up. As a dog owner who thinks “dog parent talk” is mostly a scam by vets to charge more, I was ready to agree.

I use the “oh I’m a pet parent!” joke excuse to deflect from the inevitable questions about why I’m not yet married with 2.4 children at the spinsterish age of 26 when I go home to my conservative town for the holidays. People usually leave me alone after that.