Parents. We, the childless, love you. We love your kids. We see how hard all of this is. We (or at least I) can acknowledge your quarantine is harder than ours. It's just, three times this week I've seen, out of nowhere, "Childless people don't know how easy the have it."
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That's it. We just want you to stop saying we don't know how hard it is /c nobody talks about it. We don't want you not to talk about it! We're your friends & want to be here for you. We just want you to stop bringing us up from nowhere to say we have it easy & don't know it.
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Talk about that shit. We are sympathetic. It looks really hard I for sure know I couldn't do better. Just, if we're not even in the conversation, don't bring us up to announce that we, as a monolith, don't know about the thing you talk about all the time.
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Well, this got a lot of attention while I was sleeping. Good points were made! One major one is that, in or or out of a pandemic, our society does not give parents the support it should (& many also want to limit reproductive choice). TRUE AND RELEVANT.
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Parenting is still not valued and respected as work, and it sure as shit IS work. And I respect the hell out of people who really are trying to keep these small time bombs alive, and not just that, but trying to raise them into healthy adults who are good to other humans.
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My other takeaway from the flood of responses & discussion overnight: I'm pleasantly surprised - nay, pleasantly SHOCKED - to find no responses telling me I'm an ugly feminist shrew who is childless b/c no man would want to fuck me. IT'S A TWITTER MIRACLE.
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Some of us don't have children SPECIFICALLY BECAUSE of what our friends with children say about parenthood!
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And I would posit that plenty of childless people have it hard in other ways. Being childless does not equal being well-off financially, healthy, or anything else that we all wish we could be.
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Right there with ‘ya!!
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Some of them talk about it non-stop, tbh. I'm not sure what they expect us to do, sometimes. Throw roses at their feet? Offer to babysit? Bring groceries, what?
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I too hate the “the childlesss are clueless” comments out of nowhere for many reasons, among them the fact that I know many people who would like children but can’t have them for whatever reason. BUT
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Personally some of my frustration with the divide right now comes from what feels like an unceasing barrage of accomplishment announcements. I’m delighted that friends and colleagues are being productive. But, and it’s no fault of theirs, it kills me that
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