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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel sorry for people without children. I really do. But I will never ever reveal my thoughts in any way. Instead, I will say something like, "oh wow, I wish we could just head off to Europe like you" but know that I am just blowing smoke up your a-s trying to make you feel good. Inside I feel pity for you.[/quote]

I feel sorry for working mothers. I really do. But I will never reveal my thoughts in anyway, unlike Harrison Butker, although I wholly agree with him.

Instead, I will say something like, "oh wow, congratulations in your promotion! I wish I had a high-powered career like you" but know that I am blowing smoke up your a-s trying to make you feel good for choosing to have your children raised by other women. Inside I feel pity for you. [/quote]

Don't you ever feel guilty about not contributing to your family or society at-large? How many soap operas and daytime talk shows can you really watch while your kids are at school before the weight of your choices sinks in? [/quote]

No, I don't. Having children is the most meaningful thing you can do in life- really the only thing that makes a life meaningful. And given that my children have my full love and dedication, unlike the children of working mothers, my life is even more meaningful than most people's. I get that you don't understand if you're a working mother- that's okay. I would never say this to people like you in real life. I would just silently pity you, and try to say encouraging things to you when you talk about your work so you don't feel so bad about the choices you've made to have other women raise your life's most precious gifts. [/quote]

Not all women who want children are able to have them. And not all women who want to stay home with their children can afford to; in fact, most cannot.

Why not count your blessings/be grateful for your good fortune instead of being smug and judgmental?[/quote]

Oh, I'm only smug and judgemental to mirror the many posters in this thread who've written that the lives of people without kids are meaningless. If you expand all the previous posts in this specific quote thread, you'll see I only repeated exactly what the first quoted poster said, but made the "meaningless life" targets working mothers instead of people without children.

I don't think stay-at-home moms have more meaningful lives than working moms, just like I don't think the lives of women with kids are more meaningful than women without kids.

And I'm not the "no Gerber here" poster, even though she responded to a post directed at me, but notice how her post now has many responses about how the lives of moms who don't work are empty and don't contribute anything to the world.

It's interesting that everyone's fine tearing down those whose lifestyles differ from theirs, but the hit dogs start absolutely hollering when the exact same talking points are turned on "people like them."[/quote]

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