Things you secretly oppose, but don't want other people to know:

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Anonymous wrote:Hags and geezers having babies.

OMG, do you live in north Arlington!?! Moved here from out of state and was shocked at the haggard, beaten-down oldsters pushing baby carriages around and attending Kindergarten recitals. It's gross.

Maybe they've had a harder life than you have.

It's because they're rich. Not many 20-something parents can afford the $1.2-3 million price tag in our neighborhood. They also hold graduate and law degrees.

I had my kids at 34 and 36, btw. I also married at 27, but we were full swing in our careers. I am pretty average age here.

You're only rich if you can quit tomorrow and live your same lifestyle. Lawyers and doctors in this area aren't rich.

[Anonymous]

Pets. They are work, sometimes messy, often annoying and expensive. Just don't get it.

Large families. Even with four kids, those kids are spending lots of time being places for their siblings' convenience. Don't like the herd mentality when raising kids.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Hags and geezers having babies.

OMG, do you live in north Arlington!?! Moved here from out of state and was shocked at the haggard, beaten-down oldsters pushing baby carriages around and attending Kindergarten recitals. It's gross.

Maybe they've had a harder life than you have.

It's because they're rich. Not many 20-something parents can afford the $1.2-3 million price tag in our neighborhood. They also hold graduate and law degrees.

I had my kids at 34 and 36, btw. I also married at 27, but we were full swing in our careers. I am pretty average age here.

You're only rich if you can quit tomorrow and live your same lifestyle. Lawyers and doctors in this area aren't rich.

What a silly comment. Of course you can still be reach but need to drive a source of income via your career. You may not be Bill Gates rich, but pulling in $500+K a year is doing pretty darn well and certainly puts you in the top 1%.

[Anonymous]

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You're only rich if you can quit tomorrow and live your same lifestyle. Lawyers and doctors in this area aren't rich.

that's filthy disgusting rich. Rich is if you can quit and live any lifestyle that doesn't involve homelessness or hunger. Most of us need to work to eat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:people choosing to send their kids to Catholic school just to get a private school education on the cheap, and then asking, "How Catholic is xyz school REALLY? Will my child have to learn prayers? Will my child be indoctrinated? Will my child have to go to Mass?" Dumb. Just dumb.

People who say "we're catholic but we don't buy into all that anti-gay anti-women stuff." Then they send their kids to catholic school so the next generation can be indoctrinated into the same hateful belief system.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:people choosing to send their kids to Catholic school just to get a private school education on the cheap, and then asking, "How Catholic is xyz school REALLY? Will my child have to learn prayers? Will my child be indoctrinated? Will my child have to go to Mass?" Dumb. Just dumb.

People who say "we're catholic but we don't buy into all that anti-gay anti-women stuff." Then they send their kids to catholic school so the next generation can be indoctrinated into the same hateful belief system.

Please don't send your kid(s) to my Catholic school. Just don't. You have a lot of choices. If you don't want to believe what we believe, choose someplace else.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Hags and geezers having babies.

OMG, do you live in north Arlington!?! Moved here from out of state and was shocked at the haggard, beaten-down oldsters pushing baby carriages around and attending Kindergarten recitals. It's gross.

Maybe they've had a harder life than you have.

It's because they're rich. Not many 20-something parents can afford the $1.2-3 million price tag in our neighborhood. They also hold graduate and law degrees.

I had my kids at 34 and 36, btw. I also married at 27, but we were full swing in our careers. I am pretty average age here.

You're only rich if you can quit tomorrow and live your same lifestyle. Lawyers and doctors in this area aren't rich.

We're richer than you are, sweetie. No mortgage or debt of any kind.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hags and geezers having babies.

OMG, do you live in north Arlington!?! Moved here from out of state and was shocked at the haggard, beaten-down oldsters pushing baby carriages around and attending Kindergarten recitals. It's gross.

Maybe they've had a harder life than you have.

It's because they're rich. Not many 20-something parents can afford the $1.2-3 million price tag in our neighborhood. They also hold graduate and law degrees.

I had my kids at 34 and 36, btw. I also married at 27, but we were full swing in our careers. I am pretty average age here.

You're only rich if you can quit tomorrow and live your same lifestyle. Lawyers and doctors in this area aren't rich.

We're richer than you are, sweetie. No mortgage or debt of any kind.

Doubtful. We own multiple properties. Retiring at 50. Years of HHI 550-700k/ range.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:People insisting on gluten free when they aren't true Celiacs.

Why would anyone do this to themselves? I tried some gluten-free products years ago when I suspected I had celiac disease (I didn't). They were almost uniformly terrible.

Some people do it as a healthier way to eat.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hags and geezers having babies.

OMG, do you live in north Arlington!?! Moved here from out of state and was shocked at the haggard, beaten-down oldsters pushing baby carriages around and attending Kindergarten recitals. It's gross.

Maybe they've had a harder life than you have.

It's because they're rich. Not many 20-something parents can afford the $1.2-3 million price tag in our neighborhood. They also hold graduate and law degrees.

I had my kids at 34 and 36, btw. I also married at 27, but we were full swing in our careers. I am pretty average age here.

You're only rich if you can quit tomorrow and live your same lifestyle. Lawyers and doctors in this area aren't rich.

What a silly comment. Of course you can still be reach but need to drive a source of income via your career. You may not be Bill Gates rich, but pulling in $500+K a year is doing pretty darn well and certainly puts you in the top 1%.

Well of course, it's doing very well. Who would argue with that? BUT...it's not rich.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:homeschoolers (most of the time)
attachment parenting
co-sleepers
people who espouse special diets like GFCF as curing autism
people who don't vaccinate

... and yet I'm a far left liberal in every other way

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People insisting on gluten free when they aren't true Celiacs.

Why would anyone do this to themselves? I tried some gluten-free products years ago when I suspected I had celiac disease (I didn't). They were almost uniformly terrible.

Some people do it as a healthier way to eat.

Healthier would be eating lots of delicious vegetables and fruits...eating gluten-free bread (at least, the kind I tried) when you don't have to is more like self-flagellation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hags and geezers having babies.

OMG, do you live in north Arlington!?! Moved here from out of state and was shocked at the haggard, beaten-down oldsters pushing baby carriages around and attending Kindergarten recitals. It's gross.

Maybe it's the grandparents? Also, out of curiosity, what do you consider geezer-age for actual parents? I'm 33 and pregnant with my first, and from time to time I encounter trailer-trash types who can't believe a geriatric person like me is only now having kids...

I'm the PP. I'm highly educated and I'm from DC originally - just moved away and came back (now have a kid) and realized that this area is very different in this respect. 33 seems pretty normal (though on the young side here?). People in their 40s shouldn't be having their first kids. Give it up and don't doom your kids to geriatric parents! I think we all realize that we're physically meant to have kids in our teens/20s but of course that's not socioeconomically feasible - can we find a happy medium somewhere in the middle? I know there are a million excuses (I'm TTC! I didn't find the right person till I was older! Boo hoo). it's not my business but that's the point of this string.

[Anonymous]

Yeah, I was stunned on the "when do you plan to retire" thread when people were saying their kids would be 19 and 22 when they retire! My grandparents weren't retired when I started college!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hags and geezers having babies.

OMG, do you live in north Arlington!?! Moved here from out of state and was shocked at the haggard, beaten-down oldsters pushing baby carriages around and attending Kindergarten recitals. It's gross.

Maybe it's the grandparents? Also, out of curiosity, what do you consider geezer-age for actual parents? I'm 33 and pregnant with my first, and from time to time I encounter trailer-trash types who can't believe a geriatric person like me is only now having kids...

I'm the PP. I'm highly educated and I'm from DC originally - just moved away and came back (now have a kid) and realized that this area is very different in this respect. 33 seems pretty normal (though on the young side here?). People in their 40s shouldn't be having their first kids. Give it up and don't doom your kids to geriatric parents! I think we all realize that we're physically meant to have kids in our teens/20s but of course that's not socioeconomically feasible - can we find a happy medium somewhere in the middle? I know there are a million excuses (I'm TTC! I didn't find the right person till I was older! Boo hoo). it's not my business but that's the point of this string.

I really just don't get this kind of thinking...
You have no idea of how other people's lives have played out...
I am truly curious how you get to this conclusion about what other people SHOULD do with their ovaries.
So -- if everyone has not had a chance to procreate by your age of 33 they should just forget it?
Really?
Why?