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Kits, I have very extreme viewpoints too, and I fully expect that things will never be as according to those viewpoints. I don't say much about them on here unless it is relevant to an existing discussion.
Basically, I think that freedom is a wonderful idea but that most people are too stupid to use it effectively. The problem starts when you have to figure out details and shit, like who gets to decide for others. It seems that the stupid people get stuck with the responsibility.
But that's just a general birds-eye summary of my viewpoints. i DO have specific ideas of how to actually go about implementing things, but I know these ideas won't be accepted by most other people and I also know I probably will never be in a position to make them happen either.
Re: Another parent wanting to join the party December 17, 2010 | Registered: 16 years ago Posts: 5,443 |
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Kits, I have very extreme viewpoints too, and I fully expect that things will never be as according to those viewpoints. I don't say much about them on here unless it is relevant to an existing discussion.
Basically, I think that freedom is a wonderful idea but that most people are too stupid to use it effectively. The problem starts when you have to figure out details and shit, like who gets to decide for others. It seems that the stupid people get stuck with the responsibility.
But that's just a general birds-eye summary of my viewpoints. i DO have specific ideas of how to actually go about implementing things, but I know these ideas won't be accepted by most other people and I also know I probably will never be in a position to make them happen either.
I feel much the same way, with the exception that I frequently share my views here
Enough!
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OMG Alan
Kimmie has NOT adopted any children. She has shat out THREE of her own. THREE.
After claiming she is infertile and has PCOS and had to take fertility drugs, in the same breath says she is highly fertile and get pregnant on BC at least twice.
What she doesnt seem to get is that there are a million mombie boards for her and we dont give a flying fuck about her, her brats or what she thinks.
And the one that has adopted children barely posts... Krummie (thanks Yurble i love that) has over 500!!!!!!!!!!!!! in two months.
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Whereas I resent people not reading my posts properly and totally making no effort to understand what I'm saying. . Oh well, the world ain't perfect I guess.
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If TCFL ever swung so far to breeder-friendliness that I no longer liked it, I'd simply leave.
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I guess we have to disagree on that - regular posters there soon learn who the parents are and simply avoid it. It's quite easy to avoid bingoes.
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Now, if the childfree philosophy were a majority viewpoint, supported and protected by governments, then it probably wouldn't matter. However, the fact is that in most countries we are discriminated against. To snipe amongst ourselves can only make the problem worse.
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Whereas I resent people not reading my posts properly and totally making no effort to understand what I'm saying. . Oh well, the world ain't perfect I guess.
Since we're talking about things we resent, Alan, I resent how you came on here saying all this stuff about why it's OK if Kimmie posts on TCFL and it shouldn't matter to us over here at BF, and you referred at length to certain things to back up your statement which turned out not to even be accurate. Then someone pointed it out to you and you're all "Oh well I never read any of kimmie's posts after all." Basically, you came on here and ran your mouth about something you admit you know nothing about.
PLease explain to all of us how this is supposed to make anything else you have to say worth considering. Maybe I'll read it.
Re: Another parent wanting to join the party December 17, 2010 | Registered: 15 years ago Posts: 12,447 |
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I'm a regular contributor to Childfree Life, and I think some of you guys are missing the point here.
One of the biggest complaints I see at childfree boards (including Bratfree) is the fact that breeders spit out one kid after another, and the damage to the environment this causes. The "keep ya legs together for the environment" mantra is one of the most frequent tropes that pops up here. I am withya on that one and agree, but it's not my main point of contention with breeders
But this particular person - for whatever weird reason - WANTS some brats, so what does she do? Instead of adding another team of mini-carbon-footprints to the environment she adopts sprogs that are already born. Surely she deserves some kudos for that. Kimmie has posted that she has physically given birth, but whether she has also adopted, I don't know. Also, I don't think that people who take care of, raise, adopt, or physically have children should get "kudos", simply because it's a choice and something that they must enjoy doing. If not, then they are martyrs who generally seek attention or they are doing it TO gain attention and therefore I don't like them either. They are using children for their own personal emotional gain and this isn't a good reason to acquire kid whether it's giving birth OR adopting, IMHO.
I've no idea why she posts at a childfree board - even one as non-militant as childfreelife (and I'm also bemused why the famous "Kimmie" does so) but if the mods accept her, surely that's their business. Personally, I exercise my right not to read such postings. I'm really not interested in throwing a tantrum over the fact that she's ALLOWED to post there! If she wants to exercise her freedom of speech by posting at a place where her opinions are against the mainstream - and has the mods' permission to do so - why shouldn't she? You can't tell me that no-one here has ever posted at a moo-board, just to give the doting parents a bit of a taste of the opposite view! It's no sweat off of my back who posts over there, but some of it makes for interesting conversation as does the content of many other sites. By discussing it over here, we are merely exercising our freedom of speech as well and no one need read it. While I have lurked on moomie boards quite a bit, I have NEVER posted on any of them for two reasons. 1)I am not a mother and have no business posting on a moo forum and 2)I respect their little corner of the universe and think it would be RUDE for a childFREE person to post on a forum created and frequented by childed people. However, I will continue to exercise my right to free speech and poke fun at them over here where the commentary is welcome and considered wonderful fodder for our entertainment..
Banning the link from your sidebar seems to me a bit of a wank, frankly. A bit like the new reformed southern baptists not talking to the old reformed southern baptists, or the "Next Generation" fans turning up their noses at "Enterprise" fans, or something! Are there now so many childfree people in the world, and do we now have so much power and clout, that we can spare the energy to fight amongst ourselves. I don't think so. I don't think that this software has the ability to BAN, across the board, what would amount to hundreds of members with varying IP addresses from an entire site. The link to that site was just removed based on the fact that we no longer consider that site as childfree and we don't want to appear to endorse it. It may be a delightful mixed bag of childed. semi-childed, and childfree people and an excellent melting pot of people for which many may enjoy being a member, but a CHILDFREE HAVEN it is most definitely NOT. If the "bitchy waiter" suddenly started posting about how breeders shouldn't be held responsible for their brats licking on the condiment bottles, how udder feeding is encouraged by him at the table. or that he thinks that moos should be allowed to change a shitty diaper on a booth seat, OR if he condoned it that his co-workers felt that way even if he didn't, then his site would be removed as well.
As for me, you can call me a @#$%&, bastard, fuckwit, pinko, fascist, pervert, whatever you like and all you'll get from me is an amused smile. But say I'm not childfree - in the sense that Bratfree accepts the term - and I'll pull your ears off and stuff 'em up your ass. Chance alive, I loathe the not-nosed, screeching, gurgling, smelly, incontinent, waddling little bastards, I'd crawl over broken glass to avoid having any of my own, and when I see someone else's twat-droppings I'll cross a freeway during peak-hour to avoid them. I decided I never wanted the things before I could read, and I've never wavered since. And like a lot of people here AND at Childfree Life, I detest the way those of us who chose not to breed are discriminated against, bingoed, sneered at, reviled, and have our pockets regularly emptied to provide handouts to those who choose to breed. I don't think that anyone ever singled out any member over there as not being childfree, EXCEPT THE PARENTS who post, although I think that the general consensus is that many of the UNchilded people who post over there are either childLESS OR they are flaming breeder pleasers, which most of us don't like very much. I do think though that people can be a member over there, take what they want from it and leave the rest, which sounds like what you are doing rather than being a breeder pleaser. It just doesn't seem to be happening with anywhere near the regularity that it's "turning" breeder pleaser, that's all.
But I really don't mind if someone who has adopted sprogs posts at a particular board. It's just a board. What WOULD be the tragedy is if a whole hoard of fence-sitters came here and went away with the idea that the childfree are just as brainwashed and bigoted as breedersI can't be responsible for pushing a fence sitter over to the childed side because that's a decision that only THEY can make. Only they know if or why they want children and quite frankly, if they are looking to other peoples' parenting decisions, whether it's childfree or childed, to make such a LIFELONG and important decision such as having kids SHOULD be, then that's so their problem. They are likely "fence sitters" about everything from having children to paper or plastic, with or without cheese, and whether to turn right onto the expressway or to go left and take the scenic route.
Holding "militant" childfree responsible for fence sitters making a decision to become parents would be like holding a host of party responsible for a drunk driver who CHOSE to get behind the wheel of car. It's THEIR decision to spawn and no one should be held accountable for that decision except them. Most of them already know what they want anyway and are just looking for validation, IMO..
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I guess we have to disagree on that - regular posters there soon learn who the parents are and simply avoid it. It's quite easy to avoid bingoes.
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I posted in that thread and called her out for it. I told her that she was never childfree and that there are probably plenty of American kids (assuming she is American) that she could have adopted instead of one from some shitpile like Ethiopia.
Of course they deleted the post and gave me a "first warning" via PM. I told the admin it's not my fault they pander to breeders and questioned why they tolerate breeders and bingoers on their site when there are plenty of moo / breeder sites they can go to.
Then told him to take his "first warning" and shove it. larious I'm sure they'll ban my account now, but meh, the fact that they would warn me about calling out a breeder speaks volumes about where their loyalties lie. Bratfree is much better.
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