Wouldn’t want you to waste your time.

Single is just...totally the wrong word for “doesn’t have kids.” It’s not that it’s ambiguous, it’s that it doesn’t mean that, by any definition. And there is no “no kids lifestyle,” anyway. Just like there are wealthy parents who go off on vacation while they have an infant, people who refuse to take responsibility…

Dude, I agree with you that it’s important to be supportive to one’s friends, but having been a child is such a silly argument. Nobody chose to be a child. A defining feature of adult life is the ability to choose for ourselves how to shape our lives. Saying “you were a child,” as if it means nobody can ever complain…

That is by no stretch of the imagination a cultural norm. It’s more popular than it used to be in relatively niche corners of the internet—that’s all.

I don’t actually think it’s “common,” in society at large, since having kids is still very much held up as the right/good choice. I do think part of the reason people without kids get tripped up about this is the exact stereotype you’re using here, though. That there is such a thing as a universal “single” lifestyle,…

But it’s not unequal because women won some sort of victory to keep themselves out, it’s unequal because men in positions of power thought women wouldn’t be of any use to the military/were of too weak a constitution, and also that they were the ones who needed to stay home and take care of all the lady things.

I think part of this is gendered, maybe. I sort of doubt men who referred to their dog as their “baby” would garner this much wrath. People would be like, “how cute! He’ll be a great dad—he loves things!” (or just “obviously he doesn’t really mean that”). But with women it’s like...you’re not a mother. How dare you.

I’m sure it’s fine with these same people if someone refers to a significant other as “baby” or “my baby”, too. At least you can make a SACRED HUMAN BABY with that person, I guess.