I say that they’re boring and noisy. It shocks people into silence; they can’t dispute that children are noisy, because that’s empirically factual. And they can’t dispute my boredom because it’s *my* boredom and they can’t tell me something isn’t boring to me and they know it.

I’ve been the lucky recipient of that a few times. My response of, “So how much do you regret having your children? That’s how much I regret not having mine” always shuts them up good.

• What meal do you make for yourself when everything is going wrong and you need some edible comfort?

I think I missed the line where they were handing out the thirst for this guy— he just looks vaguely frog-like to me. And that song was boring af.

That’s typical of any group that’s accustomed to being in power, either by dint of gender or race.

Here’s the problem with your logic: your genital mutilation was not done with the intent to deprive you of sexual pleasure because women are considered inherently lascivious and must be controlled, but for reasons of health and hygiene. Your penis (presumably, unless something went wrong with the circumcision) was…

The thing that will never, ever stop baffling me is how so many Christians don’t seem to, like, actually read the bible. Or make the effort to understand what it’s saying. Because Exodus 21 shows the clear difference between penalties for loss of human life vs. destruction of property over and over.

OMG I don’t know what’s wrong with you. You keep focusing the costs of living in the city, when the entire point is living somewhere else.

Again, you’re making assumptions of living in the NY metro area, which is a terrible idea IMO. Not sure why you would keep mentioning it, since I have clearly stated it’s something I will never do again and that all my figuring was based on NOT living there, or anywhere near there.

most of us don’t have 30 grand lying around for a car upgrade.

Any time you get something for free, *you* are what is being sold.

Any time you get something for free, *you* are what is being sold.

Well, you’re making a lot of assumptions that end up with the numbers failing. You present a caveat of “it depends on where you live” and then reel out the numbers for living in NYC. I was born there, and have lived there, and never would again. Therefore all your numbers are wrong, but I won’t bore you with a…

Your stab is a big miss. I’ve got more people than I wish wanting to spend time with me; I’m the one who demurs: Anti-Social Social Worker, not Social Pariah Social Worker.

Why do they all need $187 of new clothes each month? That’s ridiculous.

A little introverted, yes, but my hopes to live alone are more due to a series of bad roommates than a distaste for company. I don’t mind having someone to share meals or do other things with, but I’ve done the stage 5 clinger roommate who wanted to do EVERYTHING together; the bugshit crazy roommate who’d enter fugue…

That’s all fabulous, but completely besides my point, which had nothing to do with the quality of parenting vs. daycare/nannies, and everything to do with the idea of actually doing the child care one’s self.

Why? I’m a social worker, most of us make peanuts. The shock would be if I made more than that, really.

Could have. Felt called to do social work instead, which is notoriously poorly compensated, and I knew that going in. My only real complaint with my salary is that it’s too low to afford living by myself. Another $500 a month would be just what I need for that. Wouldn’t change anything else, though— my boss is…

Well, I meant it along the lines of, if they lived elsewhere, their housing would be less expensive. Also, the need for lessons for their kids to get into the private school would no longer be needed. Then, if they quit with the vacations and luxury cars and overkill with food and clothing expenses and the donations,…

Pretty sure I didn’t say that. I’m going by the assumption that those who have children had them in order to spend time with them. Presumably, they also wish to impart their own values to these children. Would you not agree that doing so by raising the children personally is a preferable situation, instead of…