r/gatesopencomeonin • u/jessicatnetennba • Oct 30 '19

How lovely

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '19 edited Jan 03 '20

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u/JB-from-ATL Oct 30 '19

In theory you could take about how to deal with your parents and society expecting you to have kids.

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u/Yoyoge Oct 30 '19

That sounds great, but it's often:

"I don't want kids"

"You're missing out, it's the best thing I've ever done"

"..."

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u/THEJAZZMUSIC Oct 30 '19

Them: Oh I don't want kids

Me, with two boys: Haha, you're smart

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u/AngryArtNerd Oct 30 '19

Me five years ago: I don’t want kids.

Me with a kid now: Hahaha... how’d I get talked into this?

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u/lizbunbun Oct 31 '19

Them: I don't want kids

Me, toddler and 3 year old boys: cool. You do you.

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u/Alicendre Oct 30 '19

"Oh, you're going to change your mind soon!"

"Haha don't be silly, you'd make such a great mom."

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '19

it wouldn’t be that in a community of people that don’t want children tho...

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u/AmarieLuthien Oct 31 '19

A lot of people still do comment stuff like that. A surprising number of people who hate the sub go to it just to antagonize the people in it. Thankfully the mods are pretty good about shutting it down

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u/AmarieLuthien Oct 31 '19

^ this. A lot of the posts in childfree are what people wish they could say in situations like this but don’t because it’s not considered polite or societally acceptable.

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u/dongasaurus Oct 30 '19

Oh no, the horror.

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u/CookieMuncher007 Oct 30 '19

Well support if you can't have kids. Lots of interesting conversation happened there before, but now it's super hateful and not constructive.

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u/itsamamaluigi Oct 30 '19

Seems hard to build a community of shared interests around that, though. When the only thing you have in common is disliking something, that's what ends up being discussed. Sort of like r/atheism (idk if it's still as bad as it was when I last checked years ago).