People who have kids are not such swell dudes

I've just found an old Vice article that encapsulates every reason I hate women who want kids:

Wonder Woman Wonders What's Happened

It's one of those whiny female bitch-fests about how much working sucks and how much she'd love to pop out a kid, and how "feminism" lied (surprise!) when they said you could have it both ways.

Let's look at the reasons she gave why she want a kid:

But everyone else is still having kids...

She's a lemming who's afraid of being different, and want to join some sort of baby version of Oprah's book club.

Would I have been so miserable locked in the "womens' libber" idea of a prison?

She imagines that being a mother and housewife is nothing but sitting at home, eating bon-bons, and doing some occasional light housework. She's lazy, and wants to do nothing but sit on her ass all day and let other people do the work.

I notice she didn't mention her husband/boyfriend/whatever, who will still have to be working his ass off in this "man’s world." In fact, he'll have to work HARDER than she's working right now, since he's supporting the three of them on his own. The idea that she would work, and he would stay home, never entered her head. Nor would it for most people. The article unintentionally brings one little bit of gender hypocrasy to the fore: The lifestyle she's bitching about is the only option available for men.

The other thing that never entered her head is any thought, description, or idea of what her child would be like. She goes on and on about the idea of having a child, but the article never actually mentions the child itself.

Somehow I had always convinced myself that I’d get around to it and if it didn’t work out, no big deal.

It was always in the back of her head that she could magically enter a midlife womb, if she wanted to run screaming from the responsibilities of actually being a grown-up. But now she's listened to the biological-clock scare tactics of a fertility expert (i.e. pro-baby pimp), apparently one who has never heard the word "menopause," and she throws a fit like she learned there was no Easter Bunny.

40 percent of women in the corporate workforce are childless and a whopping 87 percent regret not having kids. (presented as a "medical fact")

You want to know why 87 percent of childless women regret not having kids? It's because they have NO IDEA what actually having one is like.

She will not sleep more than a couple hours at a time, for at least three years. She'll have to learn to love the smell of shit and baby powder; the sound of annoying "children's records;" the omnipresence of Disney and Sesame Street. Her body will decline: stretch marks, weight gain, hormonal imbalances. If she's not married already, don't think she'll ever get a date again - men will learn she has a kid and run screaming.

And, to top it all off, she won't even get her lazy lifestyle. She'll still have to work as hard as she is now to support herself and her kid. But this time, she'll be poor, because she can't be at meetings or work overtime or even do the job she's doing now. Forget about a promotion - no company in their right mind rewards people for doing LESS work. And, of course, she'll deserve the scorn of her childless co-workers, who will (by law) have to take up her slack and pay for her daycare, even though they had no say in her decision.

When are people going to learn? Having kids is not only a bad time, it's fundamentally immoral. You're doing nothing but making people suffer for your own selfishness and laziness, overpopulating the planet just because you're insecure.

Sadly, she'll probably get her wish. And when she does, maybe then she'll realize: she gets what she deserves.

I mean, it's not like remaining childless is such a radical idea. There are thousands and thousands of normal, healthy dorkwads who are happily child-free:

http://www.nokidding.net/
http://www.childfreebychoice.com/
http://www.missouri.edu/~cak307/