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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Okay I did some searching, but can someone PLEASE tell me the origin of Brunch Granny?

Dying....[/quote]

I can't remember the exact original and there may not have been one thread -- I think there were a few and the same poster kept coming in and posting the exact same argument. Often in the relationship or fertility forums, but also in general parenting or really any thread where anyone talked about having kids past the age of 35, focusing on career in 20s, choosing to marry later, enjoying being single, etc.

Brunch Granny's main argument is that young women in their 20s and 30s spend too much time having brunch and drinking mimosas at trendy restaurants "in the city" and not enough time getting married and pumping out babies. That's really the whole gist. Brunch Granny is extremely triggered by the idea that any woman over the age of 22 might enjoy doing anything at all without first securing marriage and having at least one child before her fertility is lost forever to the ravages of time. She's very stressed about it!

Also, Brunch Granny likes to brag to people about how she had children in her 20s and then her children had kids in their 20s, so she got to be a Granny before 50 and spend lots of quality time with her grandchildren for whom, presumably, she is already matchmaking. [b]Brunch Granny feels terrible for people who become grandparents in [GASP!] their 60s[/b], when apparently they will be too old and decrepit to enjoy their grandchildren at all, and will instead spend their days lamenting all those mimosas chased by avocado toast they enjoyed in their 20s.[/quote]

I think brunch granny / Tucker's argument is millions of 20 30 and 40 somethings will NEVER be grandparents because they'll never have kids (barren before trying) or they'll die before their IVF baby marries and procreates.[/quote]

Brunch Granny/Tucker is predictably very inconsistent in their argument because they believe women (only women, Brunch Granny doesn't care how old fathers are or what they do with their 20s) who have children after age 30 are irresponsible and selfish BUT they also really want everyone to have children.

Occasionally I've seen people patiently explain to Brunch Granny that even people who really want to get married and have kids in their 20s don't always have the opportunity to do so, because they struggle to find a partner who wants the same thing, or they encounter infertility as early as their early 20s. Brunch Granny gets very confused by these stories and just retreats to the same nonsensical talking points about selfish women brunching in their 20s when they should be pregnant. Much like the angry fertility poster on this thread. If it's not Brunch Granny undercover, it's a kindred spirit![/quote]

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