oh GIVE ME A BREAK, communion.
i've explained til i'm blue in the face that i wasn't personally offended, I JUST DIDN'T AGREE with the OP's 'you can tell women are childless by their sneering' thesis, nor did i find it funny. i didn't find it offensive, i wasn't personally appalled, it's just not humourously written.
because yes, ffs, if you're starting a 'light-hearted' thread, you do have a burden to make the OP funny. especially, lord knows, if you are actually walking a tightrope of sneering at women who you claim to be sneering at you.
if you read the thread, plenty of people thought that the OP was off, by the way... it was she who made it all about me. look at that second post... all 'blah blah blah poor me, someone's disagreeing with me, this isn't how i wanted my return to MN to go'... quite pathetic, actually.
good, though, of you to pick out one thing i said in an otherwise very long post, communion, that's making it all about me in a way that there's no need to. not that you want to do that, huh..?
it just so happens that i didn't sneer at women with children, nor have i encountered this in my life with dd. and fuck the London thing... it's just a city in the UK, it's not that special. i know that's heretical to Londoners, but really, it's just a big place made up of smaller places.
here's what i think, though... i think if you're in a supermarket and you think that people are sneering at you, you increase the chances that they will do. if you smile, put yourself out there in a positive way, and give out good energy, you'll get it back. yes... even in London, where i used to live, and where i was always greeted warmly because i greeted people warmly. never understood the 'london's so unfriendly thing' then, don't understand it now. Rome, Sydney, Glasgow, London, New York, Edinburgh, lived in 'em all, had fun in them all.