I have a body VERY similar to Christina Hendricks'....though I'm a bit over 6' tall. No matter what I wear I've been told I'm being provocative. Tshirt and jeans? Too attention grabbing. High vneck (no cleavage) with pencil skirt? Trying too hard. Button up shirt with slacks? Too provocative because the buttons…

Yep; as a poster over at Previously TV pointed out, the erosion of the old "politeness," where you had to treat women with a modicum of dignity to their faces as long as they weren't actual whores, had eroded with the 'free love' movement, but nothing had taken its place. Many men didn't think "oh, I should treat all…

I once read an essay about how female friendship is "the most radical act of feminism" that I women can commit.

My mother hates Mad Men because her parents are basically Pete and Betty and it reminds her too much of her WASPily awful childhood.

Where does the perception come from that mothers don’t work as hard as childfree women? Because they left early to deal with a child who is sick or hurt? I personally was so worried about my absences that I worked until 2 or 3 AM with thousands of emails, projects and revenue to show. But I was fired because women…

They should, but they don't. Asking people to do something that—at this point in time—DOES disproportionately inconvenience them, because it would be ideal if benefits for some people did translate to benefits for all people, isn't really fair.

My mom tried referring to my cats as my furbabies before and I shut that shit down. They aren't my babies, they're my freeloading roommates.

I think resentments from childfree women towards mothers in the work place is due in part from the childfree people being expected to pick up all the slack in a situation where a parent has an emergency since we obviously don't have anything else going on in our lives as we don't have children. Responsibility needs to…

I never had this strong epiphany that I definitely did not want children, I just realized as my friends started having them that that was something I'd never felt the need to do and wasn't going to be joining them in mommyhood.

I have to say, I got a kinja account just so I could comment on this article, after a couple years of reading Jezebel articles.

I am 41, and my husband is 42 and we have been married for almost 21 years and we don't have kids. He got a vasectomy last summer-after telling the doctor we were both in our 40s, married for 20 years and yes we had discussed it A LOT and decided kids were not for us. Of course, when I tried to bring up the topic of…

"I am also protective of my physical shell—I've suffered from endometriosis, eating disorders, and bouts of depression—and those are just a few of the reasons why I don't want children, but I'm often told the desire to not devote my body to another human being isn't just selfish—it's vain."

It's just as intellectually dishonest for the childless-by-choice person to insist that he or she never had one single moment of doubt as it is for parents to say they cherish every moment with their children and never for one second envy the lives of childless people. Life just isn't that simple. Now, some people…

I have pretty much known my entire life that I didn't want kids. I didn't even like to play with baby dolls when I was little. I preferred 'adult' dolls like Barbie and She-Ra.

"Any child I had would be ignored and unloved."

I don't understand how we're the selfish ones, when society is increasingly carnivorous of our children, and I get asked how my childless state is going to impact me when I'm old and need to be cared for. Kids are your retirement plan? Selfish.

Every child should be wanted.

How is having children in an overpopulated world that is on the brink of world war and ecological destruction a selfless ac?

I'm childless by choice. I didn't like kids when I was a kid, so why would I want to have some of my own? I am terrified of babies, which is something babies seem to know and mock me for. Seriously, they will reach out to me and their parent will try to hand them over to me and I am so uncomfortable and just don't…

Cheers. I'm off to buy this book right now. I'm in my early 40s, happily married for 15 years and we have no desire to have kids. In fact the thought of having kids never, ever occurs to me unless someone asks me if I have kids. Rarely do they follow up with why not, (perhaps I'm lucky) but if they do ask I say I…