Aw, shucks! We missed "National Fertility Awareness Week."
Posted by bell_flower
This nonsense is patently absurd! "Awareness" of what, exactly? A whole fucking week of it too? I suppose they want everyone to be aware of how haaarrd it is to NOT accept that their baybee ovens are broken down or that their dicks are shooting blanks. WHO CARES? These breeders will do anything for attention and sympathy and all the while there are hundreds of thousands of existing children across the globe in need of a good home. Why not an awareness campaign AGAINST creating more self replicants and FOR adoption? I think that everyone needs to be made aware of the extreme level of selfishness that it would take for someone to spend tens of thousands of dollars in order to create a self replicant (or reasonable facsmile of one) as opposed to adopting a kid who may not resemble a "mini-me".
------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- -------
If YOU are the "exception" to what I am saying, then why does my commentary bother you so much?
I don't hate your kids, I HATE YOU!
------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- -------
If YOU are the "exception" to what I am saying, then why does my commentary bother you so much?
I don't hate your kids, I HATE YOU!
This reminds me of something I found in my Fakebook feed from an old roommate, posted a few weeks ago but before this "Infertility Awareness Week" (I guess there's a whole coinciding MONTH "celebration" too???):
Infertility is a heart-wrenching, faith-questioning, relationship-testing, life-altering experience. April is Infertility Awareness Month. Whether a friend, a family member, a colleague or yourself has fought through this difficult fate that MILLIONS of women are fighting day in and day out. Post this as your status if you or someone you know has walked to hell and back for the chance to be a MOM ♥
Infertility is a heart-wrenching, faith-questioning, relationship-testing, life-altering experience. April is Infertility Awareness Month. Whether a friend, a family member, a colleague or yourself has fought through this difficult fate that MILLIONS of women are fighting day in and day out. Post this as your status if you or someone you know has walked to hell and back for the chance to be a MOM ♥
Thank God/Deity of choice I'm sterilized.
We should have sterilization celebration month.
lab mom
We should have sterilization celebration month.
lab mom
Ever since my tubal, I've been celebrating infertility. I don't need to set aside a specific week! 
wink
winkPeta didn't miss it 
http://www.peta.org/features/win-a-vasectomy-from-peta.aspx
http://www.peta.org/features/win-a-vasectomy-from-peta.aspx
Quote
KitsNotKids
Peta didn't miss it
http://www.peta.org/features/win-a-vasectomy-from-peta.aspx
I'm actually in agreement with PETA about something? Amazing. If only they'd taken the money that they spent promoting their latest sexist ("want my body?") advertisement and used it to offer sterilization to several hundred people.
I celebrate my infertility (and sterilization) every time Dh and I jump each other
Quote
yurble
But of course, you know the myth I really wanted to look at was the one called 'childfree living.' I was surprised it wasn't full of 'myths' about how you can always overcome being childfree, and was actually attacking some bingos, namely 'empty lives' and 'selfish'.
Don't worry, though. They'll quickly have you back to puking with the myths about men and infertility--read “Something must be wrong with our marriage if my wife wants a baby so bad.†for a good dose of "for many women, having a baby is as biologically necessary as breathing" followed by a bit of "a baby is the ultimate consummation of that love—truly the definition of two souls becoming one."
Oh, and did you know that there's no such thing as an unwanted baby?
I have to agree - that "Men and Infertility" page was rather pukeworthy.
Quote
This is probably the by product of the expression “what’s the matter, you shootin’ blanks†so many guys hear as part of the standard locker room insult fests uttered when a guy of child bearing maturity has not conceived and makes the unfortunate decision to confide in guys that seem to get their wives pregnant by looking at them.
You can become more of a man to your wife during the fertility process by learning the lingo and the acronyms for the next procedure so you don’t don that deer in the headlight look when you are in the next consult with your fertility doctor.
Or, I suppose, you can tell your locker room buddies to fuck off and associate with people who don't define "manhood" by the number of live rounds that they shoot into the missus.
Oh, God, and this shit:
Quote
Once a woman has found her soulmate, the natural progression for her is going to be to find her soul baby. It doesn’t come from something lacking in the marriage. In fact it is how fulfilled she is in your marriage that produces the strong urge to see what the miracle of creation will yield—your eyes, her smile, your patience, her temper.
Quote
If you open up and let in the potential for fatherhood—the vision of a future filled with that first bike ride, that first daddy/daughter dance, that afternoon playing ball in the yard as the sun sets and fire flies start to appear, then it is only natural that a negative outcome from a cycle would be disappointing.
This glurge-y Hallmark card bullshit just gets under my skin. It's never about raising a completely separate being to become a fully-functioning adult, is it? It's about some stupid fantasy of what a little he-plus-me will look like, or some vision of future games of catch with the 'lil buddy, or some fat slob of a moo living vicariously through her beauty pageant princess. These people would gain far greater benefit, IMO, from some soul-searching and maybe therapy than they would from having a kid. It's really telling to me that a lot of people would rather go through the time and expense of having that kid than to truly face themselves.
Sorry, only registered users may post in this forum.