Was Tucker Carlson "Brunch Granny"? Women waste fertility on "brunch, Netflix, and white wine"

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Anonymous wrote:I don't really understand this thread, but then I'm a foreigner and most of us did marry our college sweethearts and had kids in our late 20s.

I take it Carlson is a Nasty Right-Wing person, therefore whatever comes out of his mouth is automatically trash, and we must deride it?

Because looking at the infertility forum, some women are experiencing heartbreak waiting to have kids later in life. It's not about grandkids or brunch. It's about having kids without spending a fortune in invasive and painful treatments.

But yes, I agree it'd be funny if such a commentator, or his wife, pored over DCUM threads.

Sometimes it takes a long time to find the person you want to have kids with.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't really understand this thread, but then I'm a foreigner and most of us did marry our college sweethearts and had kids in our late 20s.

I take it Carlson is a Nasty Right-Wing person, therefore whatever comes out of his mouth is automatically trash, and we must deride it?

Because looking at the infertility forum, some women are experiencing heartbreak waiting to have kids later in life. It's not about grandkids or brunch. It's about having kids without spending a fortune in invasive and painful treatments.

But yes, I agree it'd be funny if such a commentator, or his wife, pored over DCUM threads.

Brunch Nanny is annoying because she thinks there is only one acceptable path towards parenting. And she doesn’t accept that other people have different priorities/plans.

We went through several IVF cycles to have our kids. I wouldn’t change the timing of when we had kids at all. Plus, some people in my family even struggled with IF when they were young. For me, if I had to choose, I’d rather have my 20s/30s experiences/career than not. Even if that means we’d end up child free. I like being a mom and love my kids, but becoming a mom wasn’t the #1 priority for me in my life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yep, Cruz and Vance’s wives are ruthless strivers like their husbands. I think Vance’s wife was also commuting cross country or living apart from her husband because her firm was in California while he claimed to be back living in Ohio. Which is in total contrast of his posture in his tweet above.

Carlson’s wife was actually a homemaker.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't really understand this thread, but then I'm a foreigner and most of us did marry our college sweethearts and had kids in our late 20s.

I take it Carlson is a Nasty Right-Wing person, therefore whatever comes out of his mouth is automatically trash, and we must deride it?

Because looking at the infertility forum, some women are experiencing heartbreak waiting to have kids later in life. It's not about grandkids or brunch. It's about having kids without spending a fortune in invasive and painful treatments.

But yes, I agree it'd be funny if such a commentator, or his wife, pored over DCUM threads.

Professional women in Europe have kids earlier in life than their American counterparts because European countries (1) have a very robust social safety net for families with young child, (2) paid leave for pregnant women, and (3) very strong labor laws that allow new mothers to have their jobs held for when they return and in some countries allow mothers of young children to work part time.

None of this exists in capitalist United States effectively controlled by conservative business interests. Practically, professional women with elite educations have a choice: (1) become professional successful and delay childbirth until sometime in your 30s when you can afford to outsource care or (2) downshift your career aspirations to have children while still in your 20s. In the latter case, these women often do not return to the workforce at the same level in which they left. They are also dependent on a spouse's wages which puts them in a precarious position if something happens to their spouse (death, abandonment, addiction, mental illness, etc.)

You have more choices in Europe because you have a social safety net and strong labor laws that protect and respect mothers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What a pathetic thread. You actually spend time on this?

Hi Tuck!

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Anonymous wrote:Okay, these are really starting to read like his monologue. UVA is also ranked #25 by US News.

It's not money, it's decades of Hollywood and feminist propaganda. It's "cool" and "sophisticated" and "worldly" to piss away your prime fertility years living in the big city and traveling and waiting two hours to be seated for a hip brunch and rising the ladder at your make-work career, so you can piss more money away on shoes, travel, and instagram-worthy furniture.

I'm not a "dude" or a "hag". I'm in my mid 40s, married, mother of three, one grandchild, a meaningful career, and all of my children attended top 25 universities. Play coy that being a wine or martini drunk, and wasting weekends away shopping and brunching weren't a "thing" for women over the last two decades. It's basically the premise of SATC. Waste your 20s and 30s and you'll land a Mr Big. Fertility? Don't worry about it! Have hedonistic fun! Millions of women who should have been married and having babies were wasting their lives on nothing. Pointless consumerism, and now, nothing to show for it. No heirs, no legacy, nobody will remember them. Genetic dead ends. Never mind end of life, imagine being stricken with an illness in your 30s 40s 50s and no husband or children to help. Or a husband who is exponentially more likely to leave you because he has no children with you. Never experiencing the joys of grandchildren. It's terribly sad how many women were conned.

Imagine being smug about waiting until your 30s to have your first child. High probability you and/or your husband die before you experience the joy of grandchildren.

These are the kinds of people who make their children’s lives hell because they are “owed” grandchildren.

It also seems very Tucker/Manosphere to be so focused on leaving a genetic legacy. Who cares? At that point you'll be dead anyway

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't really understand this thread, but then I'm a foreigner and most of us did marry our college sweethearts and had kids in our late 20s.

I take it Carlson is a Nasty Right-Wing person, therefore whatever comes out of his mouth is automatically trash, and we must deride it?

Because looking at the infertility forum, some women are experiencing heartbreak waiting to have kids later in life. It's not about grandkids or brunch. It's about having kids without spending a fortune in invasive and painful treatments.

But yes, I agree it'd be funny if such a commentator, or his wife, pored over DCUM threads.

I’m also a foreigner who married and had kids in my 20’s and you sound like a disingenuous and condescending fool. You really can’t think of any reasons why people would marry and have kids later in life? And you troll the infertility forums but haven’t come across the many posts from other people saying they had literally no problem conceiving in their 30’s?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't really understand this thread, but then I'm a foreigner and most of us did marry our college sweethearts and had kids in our late 20s.

I take it Carlson is a Nasty Right-Wing person, therefore whatever comes out of his mouth is automatically trash, and we must deride it?

Because looking at the infertility forum, some women are experiencing heartbreak waiting to have kids later in life. It's not about grandkids or brunch. It's about having kids without spending a fortune in invasive and painful treatments.

But yes, I agree it'd be funny if such a commentator, or his wife, pored over DCUM threads.

Professional women in Europe have kids earlier in life than their American counterparts because European countries (1) have a very robust social safety net for families with young child, (2) paid leave for pregnant women, and (3) very strong labor laws that allow new mothers to have their jobs held for when they return and in some countries allow mothers of young children to work part time.

None of this exists in capitalist United States effectively controlled by conservative business interests. Practically, professional women with elite educations have a choice: (1) become professional successful and delay childbirth until sometime in your 30s when you can afford to outsource care or (2) downshift your career aspirations to have children while still in your 20s. In the latter case, these women often do not return to the workforce at the same level in which they left. They are also dependent on a spouse's wages which puts them in a precarious position if something happens to their spouse (death, abandonment, addiction, mental illness, etc.)

You have more choices in Europe because you have a social safety net and strong labor laws that protect and respect mothers.

Also, you can party and brunch and work like crazy through your 20s and then have kids in your 30s with no fertility treatments at all! Ask me how I know

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't really understand this thread, but then I'm a foreigner and most of us did marry our college sweethearts and had kids in our late 20s.

I take it Carlson is a Nasty Right-Wing person, therefore whatever comes out of his mouth is automatically trash, and we must deride it?

Because looking at the infertility forum, some women are experiencing heartbreak waiting to have kids later in life. It's not about grandkids or brunch. It's about having kids without spending a fortune in invasive and painful treatments.

But yes, I agree it'd be funny if such a commentator, or his wife, pored over DCUM threads.

I had kids young--26 and 29--and there is nothing inherently better about it. I missed out on being able to focus on my career with no kids to worry about, it was extremely hard to go on fun trips without kids and I haven't gone on many, I didn't go out to lots of bars and clubs and have lots of fun with girlfriends (I know people say that bars and clubs with girlfriends aren't anything special, but I never got them out of my system!), etc.

And the brunch thing is just bizarre because that is definitely something you can do at any age! My kids are older now so it's easy to leave them at home and go to brunch with friends and DH, or just take them with us. And that's what's so delightfully absurd about Brunch Granny and what Carlson is saying. To say brunch has anything to do with marrying and having kids is just hilariously wrong.

Also I got pregnant when I was 37 and on birth control. I terminated that pregnancy, but still, it's not like lots of people can't get pregnant easily after they have had a chance to live a little in their twenties.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What a pathetic thread. You actually spend time on this?

Hi Tuck!

+1. I thought the same. Either him or the missus.

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Anonymous wrote:Who is Brunch Granny??

Working at a high paying job with Netflix and brunch and white wine on the weekends and no descendants sounds like a fantasy to me. Ughh so wonderful.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1034499.page

Where are the older granny posts that generated that such a thread?

Search:
site:dcurbanmom.com brunch granny

Possibly more crumbs? His kids were in UVA's greek system:

I see the dozens of younger women I work with who are in their 30s, lonely and childless. Bitter battleaxes. It's an epidemic; you can do a google news search and pull up countless pieces. If they had learned and embraced more traditional values and acted a bit more feminine in college via Greek life, they'd be far happier. All of the sorority women their age are married with kids. Greek life isn't chauvinistic pigs running around date raping women like you nuts claim. It makes kids grow up, learn how to act in social settings and dating pools, and helps them meet a spouse.

He's probably also the crazy UVA booster.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't really understand this thread, but then I'm a foreigner and most of us did marry our college sweethearts and had kids in our late 20s.

I take it Carlson is a Nasty Right-Wing person, therefore whatever comes out of his mouth is automatically trash, and we must deride it?

Because looking at the infertility forum, some women are experiencing heartbreak waiting to have kids later in life. It's not about grandkids or brunch. It's about having kids without spending a fortune in invasive and painful treatments.

But yes, I agree it'd be funny if such a commentator, or his wife, pored over DCUM threads.

Professional women in Europe have kids earlier in life than their American counterparts because European countries (1) have a very robust social safety net for families with young child, (2) paid leave for pregnant women, and (3) very strong labor laws that allow new mothers to have their jobs held for when they return and in some countries allow mothers of young children to work part time.

None of this exists in capitalist United States effectively controlled by conservative business interests. Practically, professional women with elite educations have a choice: (1) become professional successful and delay childbirth until sometime in your 30s when you can afford to outsource care or (2) downshift your career aspirations to have children while still in your 20s. In the latter case, these women often do not return to the workforce at the same level in which they left. They are also dependent on a spouse's wages which puts them in a precarious position if something happens to their spouse (death, abandonment, addiction, mental illness, etc.)

You have more choices in Europe because you have a social safety net and strong labor laws that protect and respect mothers.

Meh. The professional women who I'm friends with in Europe have a hard time. This is anecdotal but it's hard on them. The expectations for parents (women mostly) being available during working hours of the week to do kids/medical/other stuff plus limited to non-existent open hours on the weekends make it much harder than in the US or other countries. The "robust" social safety net is fine as long as you have time to access it. I guess we've known different European women.

[Anonymous]

I am pretty sure all of his adult kids, notably 3 or 4 daughters, work in Manhattan and Washington, while he uses his show to rail against dangerous and immoral Democrat-controlled major cities.

[Anonymous]

I dont watch Tucker Carlson but yikes that was an unhinged screed.