God bless this woman if she ever makes a mistake.

Oh, yeah. A lot in common. We have similar personalities. I’m into sports and the other things he talks to the guys about.

I’m not trying to jump on you, and I get what you’re saying. It makes sense that this is the particular issue that’s getting you cranked up right now, since it’s what you’re dealing with most recently. But I would encourage you to look at the way you yourself frame these two facts:

This is another reason teaching is such a complicated career today. There are more men who are entering teaching, especially in younger grades, which is great. On the other hand, they are valued wayy beyond than their fair share. They get their egos stroked for going into ‘nontraditional male’ careers, and when women…

I worked for a family firm. My family’s firm, that my grandfather started. My mom was eventually made president, and she once told me that she was once denied a promotion (from her own father) because he needed to promote a man because he had children. My mom had children, too, but...no penis?

I work in education, specifically special education, so this isn’t usually an issue at my school site, though I have seen instances where, say, a male psychologist on the team insists that he is the only person who makes eligibility decisions, when in fact those are team decisions.

Fro 15 years, my cubicle has been the desk closest to the company conference room.

I was hired as an assistant and worked my way up to become a consultant. When the CEO of the company told me he was promoting me to consultant, he also told me that he was concerned that when I went out to work with clients that my weight would reflect poorly on myself and on the company. He said I should take the…

You could've had a great moment with "I would (I would)" *shakes head in disappointment*

It's not really that interesting though. Just think of something else, a television show or a food or something, that most other people are into but you've never been compelled to indulge in. It's like that.

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…

Waiting anxiously for someone salaried talking about how they don't get overtime or something.

I am very lucky in that my god-daughters' mom is awesome; I was her support person for both births and she always tells people I'm a co-parent, lol. She doesn't take the "ethereal mother, better than you childless peon" attitude some folks get.

I always follow that "you'll change your mind" crap with "I'm sure you didn't mean it this way, but it's actually pretty demeaning and insulting to suggest that you know my mind better than I do." Or perhaps "oh, I won't. I've had that surgically assured."

It's because the root word here is "child", so it automatically makes everyone think that having children is the default option. That's just the linguistics of it creating the base line from which to go from.

I hate it when some really accomplished woman will trot out the "But my real accomplishment is having a functional reproductive system" line.

We know it's not edgy, and we'd like it not to be perceived as such by people who think parenting is the end all be all to living. We childless don't want it to be a point of contention, we just wanna live our lives.

My only problem with that is (and this is at least partially my own issue of having a shitty family and redefining it) is that I think there are plenty of families with out kids. So I don't necessarily want to bind that into the meaning.

They are - and I think my dislike of it more has to do with it being a reinforcement of the idea that if you don't have kids you're this happy go lucky carefree person with no responsibilities. I am slightly worried that it offends people with kids by calling these children a burden, but more worried that it cements…

I cannot tell you how much I loathe "I didn't know true love until I became a parent." I loathe it with a mighty passion. It has no point other than telling anyone who hasn't given birth that they're a bunch of losers who don't know how to love. Whenever someone says that I always want to reply "I'm sorry to hear you…