Apparently, I'm A Bigot If I Don't Spend Hundreds Of Dollars On Kindercrap Just In Case Kids Visit

If not spending hundreds of dollars on kinder crap makes me a bigot, fine. I'll take the title. I'd rather spend my money on my pets, who appreciate it more.

Why are these nutters so attracted to you and your blog, Julie? You must hold some kind of record for highest number of delusional trolls on a CF blog.

Hell, and I only tell you guys about a few of them!

Wow....just. Wow. What the hell is going on with these loser breeders? Seriously.

Here is my thought on brat-proofing my home: NO BRATS ALLOWED PAST MY FRONT DOOR. END OF STORY.
These cockroaches are crawling out of the woodwork, and I wish they would just crawl back into the hole where they came from.

They can't perceive the notion that a ChildFree person wouldn't want to spend hundreds of their hard-earned dollars on kindercrap to bratproof their brat-free home?

Fuck breeders with a rusty chainsaw. That is all.

There is NO end to the entitlement attitude of breeders.

Honestly, that Andy character's blog post reads like a first year university student's blather. All het up about privilege and -isms. Andy needs to calm the fuck down and work on reading comprehension.

Also, lololol, so-called anti-child = anti-feminist.

Here's a good way to child-proof the house. Take an empty, cleaned-out Windex bottle. Fill it with some kind of blue Kool-Aid or sugary blue juice. Give it to any kid brought to your house and tell him/her to drink it, especially in front of the kid's parents. An ER trip and force-feeding of charcoal later only to find out Junior was in no danger, Moo and Duh will NEVER bring the fucker back again.

An alternative would be to take an empty bleach bottle and fill it with lemonade (maybe with a drop of green food coloring to get the color right).

Ranty CF goodness (updated 6.10.2013)
Caffeinated Childfree

I don't have to buy kindercrap or childproof my house. I don't let kids in my house at all.

I'm probably in the minority here, but my parents didn't even childproof our own house! The electrical outlets weren't plugged up, the cabinets weren't locked, the liquor was kept out where anyone could get it(the house had a wet bar), and we never had problems.

We also had cable TV with no parental controls on it in the privacy of our bedrooms. My parents also had some books about the occult. Same thing, we had no problems at all. I just don't get why the world needs to be bubblewrapped and censored for kids.

Trigger warning for ageism??? The fuck?

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Here is a person who has gone competely off the fucking deep end with isms and political correctness. That is one of the worst aspects of feminism, that everyone with a gripe wants to co-opt it as if "feminism" should be an argument about the feelings of the gender-confused, and that to be a true feminist I have to make sure I use the right language at all times to avoid offending anyone anywhere ever.

I find it ironic that someone would say "check your privilege at the door" when basically her entire blog is about having the privilege to control the terms of debate. Perhaps she would like to explain why she's defining "check your privilege" as "you absolutely must be able to see life from everyone else's perspective at all times".

I find people like this insanely annoying.

My aunt and uncle raised me partially when I was really little (toadler age to around five) and I always remember their house being filled with expensive antiques, crystal decanters on glass butler carts, mirrors on the walls, oversized chandaliers...a large pond in the front room with a fountain. She even had a frog that lived in the pond named Phoebe, although I never saw the frog, I used to always hear her ribbit...ribbit...although I never actually tried to search for her. I knew she was happy, living in the large trees that my aunt grew around the pond. She had an indoor tropical garden, absolutely gorgeous!

There was absolutely NO chyldproofing in that house, and it was very fancy and filled with beautiful, expensive finery. I learned from a very early age to respect people's belongings, and there were some things I wasn't allowed to go near. There were some things that I understood were off limits, and places I should NOT go. As a result, I was allowed to go where I wanted, because I never broke or damaged anything, and my aunt trusted me.

I just saw the very same aunt and uncle who had moved away a few years ago, but their new house still has very many of the same antiques I remember from my chyldhood. She reminded me about how good I was as a kyd...how I was very protective of her home, and how I used to "police" other brats that came to the house, when her breeder friends would drag them there for parties and such.


We had a little chuckle about that this past Easter weekend, and I told her that I'm still the very same way.

My house growing up wasn't child proofed either. And I'm alive today.

I got to the anti child = anti woman bit.

I gave up.

Pro child is anti woman if anything.

Sounds like the rabble of some young new-age yoof parroting what his professor says, to me.

Fuckface refuses to make expensive alterations to his/her home to accommodate disabled people but we CF are dicks for not childproofing ours? Fuck. That. Shit.

I think that- er- person- needs some help. "Nerd is my gender"....."Genderqueer athiest"....wtf?

I notice only one person replied to - them. It's because most people didn't know what to say about - their- tripe.

What a fucking trainwreck. I personally get pissed off at some of these people who consider themselves "genderqueer" or whatever and get pissy if I get shit wrong. If someone gets the pronouns wrong with me, I don't have a fucking seizure. I just tell them what I would rather them use and go on. Eventually it won't be a problem. How the hell are people just supposed to "know" stuff like that? It isn't their problem. It just makes the rest of us trans people look bad.

People should never have to pony up for another person's kyds. My mom did it whenever some harpy at her former workplace had a kid; now she's giving her boyfriend's kid gifts. She just got rid of my gaming chair - which I told her I wanted to keep. If I find out she have it to new BF's kid, I'm go ballistic. No fucking wonder we never had any money. >

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michaela

"A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends, and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish, and seasoned with a little pepper or salt, will be very good boiled on the fourth day, especially in winter." -Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal

This person appears to hold a degree in Madeupology from the University of Theirhouse.

I really don't understand why ANYONE would expect someone without kids to have child-related accoutrements, just in case a kid/someone with one happens upon them (I would just not answer the fucking door, but that's just me). It makes as much sense as one of us going to their houses, and demanding that the kids and kidshit get dumped outside for the duration of our visit. You know, gotta get rid of all that shyte, just in case a CFer drops by...

such utter nonsense.

If I had any plans on spending hundreds of dollars on anything kid-related as far as my residence, I'd prefer to spend it on additional fences, gates, No Trespassing signs, bear traps, and electrified gated entrances.

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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!

Wow. What a load of fail. I can't stand those buzz-word-spouting know-it-alls. What he lacks in common sense he certainly makes up for in sensationalism. Anyone with more than two brain cells to rub together should understand your premise.

He did forget to point out that you're also anti-cat, Julie, since you don't cat-proof your house in case someone with cats visits. Tsk tsk.

I hope this guy has a cat-friendly house, in case I happen to stop by with my cat (the younger one travels well and loves to visit people.) I expect him to spend hundreds of dollars on fancy cat trees, and to have his whole house cat proofed to my exacting standards. Oh, and he should lock up his kids if they start to harrass my cat. If he can't do that he's a sexist, racist prick who shouldn't invite people over becuase he doesn't deserve to be around people.

He keeps comparing kids to dogs, and bitches about "a dog can go free but a kid can't." Well, if somebody brought their badly behaved dog to my house, I'd complain about that too. They'd either have to keep a hold on it at all times, or else tie it outside or put it in the car. I wouldn't tolerate a dog breaking my things any more than I'd tolerate a brat. Maybe if this breeder would actually parent, his kid wouldn't be acting like a dog.

Then he goes on about how "children are people" and how he wouldn't have somebody's dog over because he can't accommodate a dog. I disagree that "children are people." They are humans, but they are not people in the same way that adults are people. Children tend to behave more like animals, rather than people. So, if you can't accommodate an animal (such as a dog) running around, why should one have to accommodate kids (which act like animals) running around? The problem here isn't that "kids are bad" or whatever, the problem is that they run around, and that their parents don't do anything to limit this behavior, regardless of the consequences.

His comparison to racism is also ridiculous. You can't compare discrimination against a kid to discrimination based on race, because the discrimination here is based on objective facts, i.e. the kids' behavior, which as I said, tends to be on the animalistic side. Maybe the kid can't control that, but THE PARENT CAN. Racism is not dependent on anything objective, it's all unsubstantiated prejudice. That brats tend to behave badly and ruin things is a well-established fact; it's not a prejudice.

He also shows what a misogynistic fuck he his with his "it's anti-woman to be anti-child" nonsense. He is apparently fine with women bearing the majority of the work to raise brats.

This reaffirms why I will never allow kids into my house, or if I do, I will insist that they be tightly controlled and not allowed to roam around AT ALL. Kids are NOT people. They are closer to animals in behavior and thus they need to be controlled like animals.