The official Childfree on MN bingo card

[ItsNotRocketSalad]

We have 24 squares to fill. What lines get trotted out on every thread that discusses the child free?

My suggestions:

1. You'll need my children to be your carers when you're old
2. Only parents understand real love
3. Childfree people shouldn't take annual leave in school holidays

I am really sorry for everything you've been through, I would say something like 'that's awful' but honestly 'awful' doesn't come close to describing that.

My sympathies, that's the only sort of broodiness I've ever felt! Main thing apart from how the three residents would take it would be, have you space and cash to take another? (I'm kind of glad I don't - my two both have expensive chronic conditions and my unit is only big enough for two cats who get along very well!)

My boy is a daily medication/ twice yearly blood tests kinda guy but my girl is solid. I would happily sacrifice for a new bundle of joy 🤣

Understandable! I miss the days of having five cats. (Well - they're all I miss about those days.)

I see we have a new But It’s MUUUUMSnet thread going in AIBU today.

fwd, ha ha! I was on MN well before I had a kid.
Most of the topics I look at aren’t child-related.

Oldies bashing is sooooooolast week, let's have a go at the CF.

This is second time someone popped on CF section , got told they are wrong so went to bitch to AIBU forgetting most posters have brains so obviously it's not going well for them🤷

Er, no it’s not.

Anyone who says this sort of stuff, just lacks imagination and empathy.

Yeah, just another goady fuckwit. I see people are already saying “Are you new?”

Sorry for your thread deletion @abmac95 - you’ll have to try harder next time!

Bwahahaha! Mass reporting and MNHQ deleted it pronto!

@abmac95 You are quite a keyboard warrior, being nasty behind a screen. Does it make you feel better? Insulting people that did you no harm is a form of therapy for you? In this case, perhaps you should take a look at your own life and see what missing and forget about other people's choices.
And next time you start a goady thread, think twice about your audience. See, it didn't have the intended impact.

Ohh I missed it. Was it "AIBU to think CF shouldn't be on MUMSnet spreading their bitterness?"

Pretty much word for word. And posters saying all those bitter childfree women advising posters to LTB and abort pregnancies. It must be awful dragging around that amount of bitterness and mendacity.

Um what's the connection between CF and advising people to leave abusive arseholes? Are they suggesting that if we had children of our own we would want to encourage other children to be born into/raised in abusive households?

I always just assume the “All CF woman are bitter and jellus” posts are trolls- it’s such a cliche.
Plus bitter is a word that’s only ever used to insult women, and every type of women. Just not worth giving the headspace.

There isn't one. It's the SM equivalent of a trolley dash - run around throwing everything you can think of into the post whether it's relevant or not; because any stick will do to beat women who don't have children.

I just don't have the 'aaah' gene when faced with a baby, or a child, and especially not a teenager, wishing I had one.

I do have the 'aaah' gene when I see baby animals though, especially dogs, but apparently that's not normal.

I can do ‘aaah’ for kids in the short term.

Kittens and puppies on the other hand….

I work with the elderly - I have the “aaaah” gene for very very old people in bed jackets 🫠

Because childfree people are lonely bitter hags who obviously want everyone to be lonely bitter hags or some such nonsense

I'm neither lonely nor bitter. So not only am I a failure as a woman, I'm a failure at being childfree! 😫

I even like children and actively spend time with them (although this failure to be a lonely bitter hag does make me a groomer and a pedophile of course, the other sterotype of a CF person that a few posters like to trot out)

"It's weird, isn't it? She says she doesn't want children, but she's always playing with her friend's children. It's creepy."

I miss when my friend's children were little. I used to sit in the caged ball pit with them at softplay then all the other little tots would come to join in the fun (while the other adults either looked on in embarrassment or sat on their phones).