This is why it’s sometimes good to respond to someone’s comment without being a snarky dick! (Seriously, I get that entirely. Speaking as a person with a shitload of issues, I get it.)

Dear people intending to reply with something witty about gin not being a wonderful thing,

Well I suppose there’s no accounting. Be rad if you didn’t act like people who did were assholes though, yeah?  Kinda makes you come off like a bit of a dick is all...

I feel like maybe you haven’t actually listened to the actual words he is saying...

Okay, so that’s why we aren’t.  Fair.

Chlamydia

Sure. But the “parents who don’t give a shit” thing is assumed as the norm though which is bullshit.

Why aren’t we all on the set of a gay porn Ghostbusters parody?

Okay, that’s just mean. Like, on several levels.

Honestly I just find the idea that children are some horrible burden to be annoying. And the “blame the parents” stuff isn’t much better. Like, that shit’s hard. You’re seeing a snapshot. Are there shitty parents? Yep! But overall most everybody’s trying their best at a hard, important job and getting a ton of shit…

The linked article does get into that.

Basically I was like, “holy shit, this guy just got stabbed a shitload of times and he’s out there playing his ass off.” And it didn’t occur to me that he was out there because that was the only place he felt safe and it wasn’t just the physical marvel of it. He was holding off a huge psychic burden too that nobody…

Never said he wasn’t.

It’s interesting to me that people (myself included) marveling over how tough he was to be back out there that quickly were just so completely wrong.

You seem lovely!

Or, y’know, if people expect to be able to be able to avoid any interaction with children which is where I was actually going there.

I never said anything about the restaurant thing but people need to fly places with their kids and shouldn’t be forced to go through extra bullshit to do so.

Turns out that no, that’s not true. Often you’re alone because you are perfectly attractive enough to attract someone but then the way you maintain your relationships isn’t healthy and effective. Or perhaps you’re alone because you have structured your life in such a way that you don’t have a lot of opportunities to…

Edgy take!

It’s almost like the continued existence of our species isn’t worth minor annoyances...