Having kids makes you mean and nasty...

[Anonymous]

And so it begins....

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Anonymous wrote:I must say the meanest thing I've seen here so far was said to a single Mom who was looking for a little support at the end of a long week....basically she was told to suck it up and its her own fault for bearing children! Yikes! Sometimes I wonder if people do it just to get a rise....not so much they hate single Moms for example, but they are just frustrated or bored in their own lives. Still....at the end of the day, that's mean.

I think I know the post to which you are referring. And to be fair - it was NOT a single Mom. It was a Mom whose husband was going to be away for a week and she felt that friends and family should be jumping in to help her during that time because she goes to their birthday parties and baptisms.

I don't think it's mean or nasty to provide a reality check when someone is clearly in need of one.

Reading this I can tell you were one of the mean people on that thread....you're not giving a reality check. You're giving an elbow check.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but I'm not one of your "mean people." I am, however, a confused people when someone states that family and friends owe her because she attended their birthday parties. In my world THAT'S what's mean. And I think it's worth noting the irony that in your complaints about mean people, you're being pretty mean and sharp-elbowed yourself.

In reference to above thread, here's another thought...sometimes its not "meanness" on here, but rather just very judgmental and opinionated posts, coupled with a strong desire to "set people straight." You tell her, sister!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I must say the meanest thing I've seen here so far was said to a single Mom who was looking for a little support at the end of a long week....basically she was told to suck it up and its her own fault for bearing children! Yikes! Sometimes I wonder if people do it just to get a rise....not so much they hate single Moms for example, but they are just frustrated or bored in their own lives. Still....at the end of the day, that's mean.

I think I know the post to which you are referring. And to be fair - it was NOT a single Mom. It was a Mom whose husband was going to be away for a week and she felt that friends and family should be jumping in to help her during that time because she goes to their birthday parties and baptisms.

I don't think it's mean or nasty to provide a reality check when someone is clearly in need of one.

Reading this I can tell you were one of the mean people on that thread....you're not giving a reality check. You're giving an elbow check.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but I'm not one of your "mean people." I am, however, a confused people when someone states that family and friends owe her because she attended their birthday parties. In my world THAT'S what's mean. And I think it's worth noting the irony that in your complaints about mean people, you're being pretty mean and sharp-elbowed yourself.

In reference to above thread, here's another thought...sometimes its not "meanness" on here, but rather just very judgmental and opinionated posts, coupled with a strong desire to "set people straight." You tell her, sister!

I'm sure the person who posted that those responses were "the meanest" she'd seen on here so far, and also that they were elbow checks not reality checks, was the original poster of that thread. No one in their right mind -- who had spent any time on this forum, anyway -- could say that that response was the meanest they'd read here. Come on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I go to dcmetromommies.com as well and haven't seen anything as remotely nasty as I've seen on this site. It's not anonymous and I do think that plays a part for some people. When I was on the "expectant moms" part of this site and I saw all the nastiness that took place there, I chalked it up to pregnancy hormones; now I think it has more to do with unhappy people who have the opportunity to vent anonymously. If one's name and email address were attached to some of the words I've seen here, I think it would be an entirely different story. People are nasty cause they can be. These are the same people who are rude to servers at restaurants and customer service people whenever they get the chance. That all being said, I love this site because I find the topics are relevant and most of the people are good natured and helpful.

you can't really be even remotely critical of anything on dcmm because you will get banned and nobody will be the wiser.