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1. I never realized "moo" was an acronym -- always thought it was a derogatory reference to breastfeeding-mom-as-cow.

   posted by : squawks on 3/15/2007 at 12:30 PM Flag For Abuse

2. Ha!! Want a name that we call you non-breeders? Frankly we just call you scared shi!tless. J/K. I found this article amusing and informative. Now I've got some new lingo!Thanks!

   posted by : conniemomma on 3/15/2007 at 2:28 PM Flag For Abuse

3. It just goes to show you that being "childfree" makes you childish. There is the consolation that snarky non-breeders won't pass their lamentable traits onto the next generation.
   

   posted by : sconnolly on 3/15/2007 at 3:16 PM Flag For Abuse

4. Breeders don't think about non-breeders enough to make up names for them. We're too busy enjoying life to care.

   posted by : melissashelley on 3/15/2007 at 4:40 PM Flag For Abuse

5. Assholes. They're called assholes. That's what you parents would have called me, right up until I found out my ex was about to bear crotchfruit.
   

   posted by : RyanIverson on 3/15/2007 at 6:02 PM Flag For Abuse

6. I'm amazed that childfree folks seem to spend so much time bashing parents.  Wouldn't that time be better spent enjoying a child-free life?  Before I had my kid, I spent a great deal of time doing whatever the hell I wanted.  Isn't that what being child-free is all about?  So why on earth would anyone spend the time and effort making up words for people who choose to have children?  I don't get it.  It's almost like gay-bashing: someone chooses to live in a different manner than you do, therefore it's okay (and sometimes even encouraged) to ridicule and hate on them.   Interesting.

   posted by : RachelZ on 3/18/2007 at 3:49 PM Flag For Abuse

7. Geez, that's funny, Mark. When you wrote to a childfree person about researching this article, you said yourself that you LIKED the term crotchfruit! Which is it, Mark? Oh, and your editor, Ada Calhoun, is an idiot and her and her kid are ugly as sin. I guess she needed proof that someone would sperminate her.   Also, why does babble have so many "parents behaving badly" columns? I thought that when you do the MOST IMPORTANT JOB IN THE WORLD, you automatically become a BETTER PERSON. So why all the stories on a parenting board about bad parenting? Maybe it's different when it's your own (because when they scream and yell and demand, you CAN'T give them back, hence, post-natal I ONLYLOOKEDAWAYFORASECOND abortions occur).

   posted by : Esmerelda on 3/21/2007 at 1:52 PM Flag For Abuse

8. Sorry for the triple post. This software that was most likely designed by some poor, overworked WAHM is acting a little wonky for me for some reason.

   posted by : Esmerelda on 3/21/2007 at 2:22 PM Flag For Abuse

9. I am a woman who has chosen not to have children, and while I do think there are rather vitriolic and bigoted elements to the CBC movement, I can also understand that it can be painful and alienating to be childfree (by choice or not) in what to me feels like an increasingly "hyper-natalistic" society (see: "Baby Bump" obsession in the tabloids, all the "pregnancy" movies coming in the last year, and the "MILF" and "Yummy Mummy" phenoms as some examples.)
   Having children is fine, but it does not make one better than another person, and I think this is the crux of the issue many CBCers are having with how parenting is perceived these days. I do feel like I hear too much of "It's the toughest job in the world!" and "Being a parent makes you a better person/more humane/more mature/a true grownup!" these days. I think it would be correct to qualify the first statement with "one of the toughest" and the latter statement just depends on the person. Some people become more mature by parenthood, some let it stunt them. And that is true with CBCers and their reactions to parenthood and the decision not to be a parent as well.
   I think the post by Esmerelda is bigoted and unfair, and the same goes for the posts by Conniemomma and Sconnolly. All could use a lesson in sensitivity to lifestyle choices.

   posted by : Just Looking on 5/4/2008 at 12:35 AM Flag For Abuse

10. "Non-breeders should be thankful that we breeders are producing crotchfruit, aka future taxpayers, to finance their extravagant retirements."
    
    You mean pyramid scams like Social Security? That are dependent on people begetting more people than the previous generation in order to keep things funded. (Hardly a decent plan.)
    
    And neither is it a good argument for having children.
    
    
    This CF person will be planning and financing her own retirement, thanks.
    
    And I would suggest all people, CF or not, do the same.

    posted by : Morgan on 7/11/2008 at 1:40 PM Flag For Abuse