If that woman was my daughter I would feel like a fucking failure.

agreed!

what in the ever-loving fuck is the point of this?

especially your last point. fuck these people.

AND FUCK SCOTT WALKER.

That’s what those idiots get for supporting a team whose owners donate to Scott fucking Walker. Glad to see them go down the same way. P. S. I’m a Chicago native.

I never said I was special. You, however, seem to have some personal issues, and have responded in such an overly hostile, unprofessional manner it’s not productive. How do you expect to engage in discourse, as an academic, or whoever in the world when you call someone lazy? I’m not going to address your other…

That’s a real reach, friend. My husband has taught classes with my son present.

What about a woman who is there on a scholarship? Or a woman who scraped together all her pennies in order to attend in hopes of having a job interview, or presenting research that would secure her future employment?

To your last point, I don’t assume that, I never assumed that. I think that everyone should be entitled to the choice of whether or not to have children.

I was coming at this from the perspective of a graduate student. Your comments are overly hostile, and again, 30 seconds a few minutes, I have never seen a situation where someone who brought a child to one of these type of events didn’t quickly usher them out.

His own pal, George W. (now celebrating his newly anointed status as the “successful” Bush offspring), called him Turd Blossom.

I am an academic. I understand how it works, and think that it’s deplorable that conferences are a necessary event for graduate students and typically cost them through the nose. I know this from personal experience. From personal experience, I have also experienced professors bringing kids to class, people bringing…

It’s not a service, it’s the reality of our species, and any species.

The problem isn’t with the woman who brought her baby, the problem is with the rules themselves, arranged to exclude child-care providers, or people who cannot afford childcare.

Excluding women on the basis of they can’t afford childcare is absolutely anti-feminist. Even the poors should have access and equal opportunity.

So breastfeeding mothers and their babies should stay at home?

There is absolutely a need to attend conferences, especially when you are early on in your career. Many conferences in my field hold job interviews, and networking is paramount to career success. It’s not expecting the rest of the world to “conform to your wants” it’s expecting the world to give you 30 seconds to…

Until there is affordable, widely available, safe childcare, then it is an anti-feminist issue because it leaves people taking care of children out.

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.