I mean, that's a lovely speech and all. You've given yet another perfect example.
No one is pointing out "you don't have a child." But then you know that, don't you. It's this constant pretending that people are saying things that they absolutely haven't. Why?
You aren't stupid. You read the post. Clearly saying, "someone who hasn't experienced xyz, doesn't know how xyz feels....is that a reasonable statement?". But yet you feel the need to post a completely irrelevant rant about something different, pretending it's the same thing.
It's baffling. I only see this behaviour in two places. And please understand only by a minority, but it's there every time. The first, is on child free threads/discussions. Now demonstrated three times on this thread alone.
The other is the special needs boards. A very similar thing. I have an eldest SN child. And the level of judgement, daily difficulties, and red tape is exhausting. People who make comments, which whilst not malicious or from a bad place, are thoughtless. And I see that similarity between the majority of child free posters and SN posters, in that they know they receive unfair treatment by the majority of society. And it's shit.
However there are always one to two, ever present on the SN boards, who also, make statements like "oh, so you're saying all disabled people should be locked away then, because we're such an inconvenience." And the rest of us look on, like wtf are you on? No? No one's remotely said that, why are you trying to invent things just to be professionally offended by your own invention? It's a shitty enough situation as it it, without some posters making us look like we'll create issue when there is none. All this does is show people there's no point trying to understand how to make improvements because even if you can improve A we'll immediately fabricate B, just to have something to be offended by.
It's hard enough, trying to educate, and help people understand, or make improvements, without certain people just making the group look like we're just here to be irrationally and illogically defensive about anything. The important points get diluted. On both boards.
Anyway, new thread being set up for further comments...