Why does the Times think it is ok to print this horrible article about "Breeders"

[MmeLindt]

Shudder

I absolutely hate the term "Breeders".

Why do childless people think that it is ok to use terms like this? I don't go around thinking that I am superiour to them because I pushed a baby out of my fanjo. I would never refer to a childless person in such a derogatory way.

The comments are just horribly smug.

oh yes sorry! you know that much.

who knows! I'd like to talk about the mosaic tiles round my loo given the chance. Too busy talking about the lisbon treaty and Nama of course..

I know someone who opens all conversations with something along the lines of "so you've heard about the latest

massacre of Palestinians
bail out of the capitalist class
attack on the poor
backlash against feminism
attempt to subvert the family

by the forces of reaction? what do you think of it?"

People are ever so slightly alarmed by her. "How's the flat?" or "How's the kids?" might go down a bit better...

Blimey! she sounds like an interview on legs!! imagine going on holiday with her. I'd be a husk after weeks of talking about palestinians and feminism.

She can be somewhat ... heavy weather.

Just read the article.

It has opened my eyes to a whole new paradigm... I've never been able to describe someone as "the poor man's Liz Jones" before...

You'd better say "poor man/woman's Liz Jones" or the huffing and puffing from the Sexist Science thread will find its way in here!!

Quite so, UQD, quite so. Although obviously I meant it in the wider sense of 'the poor whole of humanity's Liz Jones'...

So if her life is so much more wildly exciting and fulfilling than that of 'breeders'.... how comes they've ended up at the same social gathering?!

Perhaps you could strike up a conversation with her along the lines of 'Hi Hannah, how's the inferiority complex?'

ok, so this is resurrecting an old thread because someone linked to it in another one, but FFS! That Hannah Botts is a vacuous numpty!

Ah poor her, all her friends have had children and she can't fit into their "frame of reference" - what bollocks!

I have several friends who had DC way before I did, they never thought my life was in any way failed or crap (nor were they envious of it); and I was happy to find out how their children were AND go on to talk about other non-child based topics with them. Now we also have DC in common and we STILL don't spend all our time talking about them, we STILL have conversations about other interesting things.

Perhaps HB had better find a different quality of friends - mine certainly managed to have plenty to talk about re the world at large.

Stupid woman.