Oh, now you're mad mothers get baby showers. Next you'll be mad that graduates get graduation lunches and that people enjoy beer on St. Patrick's day.

Yeah, and I pay taxes on roads and I don't drive. But I'm wise enough to realize that having roads benefits me indirectly the same way pubic education benefits you indirectly. So no, no plaque for you. We don't get a trophy for just living. Me included.

Complaining that . . . a woman who has never had children doesn't deserve a special party? Isn't that what her birthday is for?

Wow, Jezebel has sunk to a new low. What horrible, petty people.

Your link doesn't work. You'll have to think of another way to insult me.

You're jealous that I "get mother's day". I'll tell you who benefits from Mother's Day: the great grandmas who don't have to do anything. Let's see, I get to host, arrange cards, flowers and gifts for my mother, my mother-in-law *and* my two grandmas while cooking for/caring for/running after my two kids. What will I…

You seem to be confusing my objection that this woman be celebrated as an environmental martyr with me giving a damn if other women have babies. You do what you want, but don't think you're getting a congratulations for nothing.

Key: She THINKS she's had. If you're an adult living by modern standards in the United States, you're not saving the environment. She'll have to do better than simply not having a child to claim that victory.

"Not if you really want it. I'm surprised at a column like this in 2012, with all of the options [...] to good ol adoption...this homeless womb article somehow seems, outdated."

I didn't put her down, I said she's nothing special for living her damn life like the rest of us.

I didn't discredit her opinion, I state my own that she doesn't deserve a party for not having a baby. Where's my party for not driving an SUV or not drinking bottled water? Where's my congratulations for not having ten *more* kids? Um, because I don't need one and that's ridiculous.

Praised by whom? My kids on mother's day? I'd like to see you try and stop them.

I'm not making you feel anything. How you feel is your responsibility. I could not care less whether you have a baby or not.

Ah, the difference here is I'm not asking for a fucking parade. I love how the childless people are putting words in my mouth that I'm shaming the childless-by-choice or that I'm asking for a social celebration for myself. I'm saying you don't get accolades for simply living your life.

Yeah, it's pretty cool. Not much yard space and the cops have machine guns, but hummus is always on special at the grocery!

Interesting. I reconsider my remark. I live in the city and feel like I'm just a babysitter away from a clubby gay bar where they don't speak Toddlerish.

Because it's pretty high-horsey to think she deserves some sort of award for not having kids.

"no one ever said to me, "Thank you. Thank you for giving the biggest possible gift to the planet by not having a child"

Me neither. What's really odd to me is that I'm often referred to as a "suburban mom" when people talk about me from my blog, even though I'm raising a family in the city. It's like peoples' minds go "MOM = SUBURBIA". I think it's kind of like people assuming all single people like to drink.

How do these childless women not have their people? Move to the city, ladies! It's not that hard. Of course you're going to feel like a freak living alone in a good school district in a 3-bed house next to a playground.