Is there anyone more annoying than infertiles? Okay, screaming, misbehaving kids in every public place we go these days are certainly more annoying. But infertiles are high up on the list of annoying people. I’ve never known anyone who whined more than infertiles!

A couple of years ago someone pointed me to an infertile blogger for some reason. I subscribed to the RSS feed and occasionally read her posts. She sounded fairly intelligent (which is more than I can say about most infertile bloggers) but she is an eternal whiner. There wasn’t anything she wouldn’t whine about! Everyone on the planet hurt her little feelings.

- She’d whine about HOW DARE her relatives or in-laws get pregnant, knowing she so desperately wanted a baby and couldn’t get pregnant. Didn’t they know it would upset her?!!?! How dare they talk about their pregnancies around her!
- She’d whine about how she and her husband both had all kinds of ugly genetic diseases in their families that, if they ever did manage to have a baby, zomg, it might not be perfectly healthy, and she wanted a perfectly healthy baby of her own DNA, damn it!!
- She’d whine about other infertiles who were “lapping” her (having their second kid in fewer years than she’d been trying).
- She’d whine that people who were pregnant would complain about pregnancy and how fucking inconsiderate were they were to not appreciate that they COULD have a baby.
- And of course she hated the childfree because how dare we take our fertility for granted! She felt that we should be the ones cursed with infertility. (Although it wouldn’t be a curse then, would it?)

Of course, I never told her that I believe if you can’t have biological kids naturally, that’s nature’s way of saying your crappy genes should not be reproduced. But I really, really wanted to! (And hey, go ahead and tell me that maybe childfree folks not wanting to reproduce is nature’s way of saying our genes should not be reproduced either. I don’t care. Even if my genes were the fittest they aren’t being reproduced, so it doesn’t matter either way. But if I really wanted to argue with you, I’d point out that making a conscious decision is not the same thing as nature handing you a physical condition trying to keep you out of the gene pool!)

One day last week I was in a waiting area and had the misfortune of being seated next to some dumb cow (I know that’s harsh, but you’ll agree with me in a minute) who wanted to spend her half-hour wait whining about her infertility problems. To strangers. She struck up a conversation with the woman next to her who she clearly had never met before and who was not a fellow infertile. While the victim tried to appear sympathetic, I got the impression she really didn’t care. During the infertile monologue, I couldn’t help but think of comedian Ron White who once said, “This guy told me his entire life story against my will. This guy raped my ear. This guy forcefully shoved unwanted information into my earhole.” That’s how this infertile made me feel!

I have no problems getting pregnant – I can do that any day of the week! I just can’t stay pregnant! You just don’t know how difficult it is, having miscarriage after miscarriage after miscarriage! I’ve had like twelve already. The doctors say (something about being unable to fix her crappy uterus) but I’ll just keep trying and see if maybe one will stick!

She wouldn’t shut up! Then she started going into the gory details, so I whipped out my headphones to drown out her mooing! All I could think was that she must thrive on martyrdom and sympathy or why else would she put herself through this? And why would she have to tell random strangers about it?! From what I heard before I drowned it out, she won’t be able to carry a baby, but she insists on repeatedly “trying” to see if maybe this time the doctors are wrong, and who would really do that to themselves? Really? That’s like stabbing yourself every day to see if maybe this time it won’t bleed. What a fool this woman is! Even IF I could understand the desperate need to have a kid (I’m trying) if the doctors have told you that your uterus won’t do it, TRY SOMETHING ELSE!

Hell, where is the pro-life movement now? This woman is intentionally creating people that she knows WILL BE ABORTED and they don’t have a problem with it? Or do they just think it’s GOD’S WILL that she continue to do this so she’ll have a sob story to tell everyone and an excuse to not go out and get a job like other grown-ups?! “Oh, I can’t work. I might miscarry!” Bitch, you’re gonna miscarry anyway! The doctor’s told you so!

Then yesterday I was reading an amusing (but somewhat horrifying) article online about how miserable pregnancy is, and some infertile had to throw in her sarcastic whine in the comments section. Something along the lines of, “Well, don’t ever be infertile and then whine when you’re pregnant or how the baby keeps you up at night, as everyone will throw in your face that ‘you wanted this!!’”

!!!!!!!

Even when they get pregnant and have a baby, they are STILL whining!!! And they are whining about other people getting fed up with their incessant whining!!

Listen, if you so desperately want a baby that you go to any length to have one, you don’t really have an excuse to later complain if it’s not all worth it! You just don’t! If it sucks that bad, WHY did you go through all that? Why didn’t you just adopt to avoid pregnancy and that first year when the kid won’t sleep through the night? It’s bad enough when non-infertiles whine about their pregnancies and their kids, but when infertiles do it, it just seems that much more ridiculous. Don’t go through all that if you won’t enjoy it!

Honestly, is there anything they won’t whine about?

The moral of this story is, clearly, avoid infertile blogs but more importantly, carry headphones with you wherever you go so you can not be ear raped by infertiles. Just a tip.

Leaving your kid to die in a hot car is SO 2005. You know what the latest version of post-birth abortion is? Smothering your child to death and then claiming it was an accident. SIDS is back with a twist! Now it’s not “crib death” it’s “co-sleeping death”.

A 2-month-old Milwaukee baby boy was found dead Sunday morning in bed with his 18-year-old mother.

On Monday the medical examiner’s office conducted an autopsy on Tyler Winston. The cause of death is believed to be accidental — the third case of a co-sleeping infant death in the past six weeks.

Third time in six weeks in that city alone. How many other people are getting away with this every day across the country?

Much like little sizzlers, this is a totally, absolutely legal form of infanticide. Lovely, isn’t it? If a child dies in daycare, even if it’s an accident, there is hell to pay. But if a parent murders their own child, it’s totally legal. No one seems to care.

You’ll notice, pro-lifers have no problem with infanticide. Typical of their hypocrisy. They want to give a fetus “personhood” so we can be prosecuted for murder if we have an abortion. They even want to be able to prosecute someone else if they accidentally cause you to miscarry. Hell, they think fetuses are so special, we shouldn’t have access to birth control so we must get pregnant with more fetuses. AND YET, they don’t care if the child is murdered once it is born, as long as it is murdered by it’s parents. What kind of ass-backwards reality do they live in?

According to pro-lifers, I’m a murderer if I have an abortion, but if I wait until the baby is born and kill it, then I’m just a “martyr”. You see why I have no respect for pro-lifers.

I’m so disgusted that this country continues to let parents get away with murder (literally). Murder your kid by “forgetting” them in a hot car? Legal. Drown your kid in the bathtub and blame hormones? Legal. Smother your kid with a pillow and claim it’s “crib death” or “co-sleeping death”? Legal.

Horrifying.

This is one of those silly email forwards, but I thought you all might enjoy it. Thanks to my best bud, Paul, for forwarding it on to me, knowing it would look good on my site.

(Disclaimer: I did not write the following. I don’t know who did. I’m just amused by it and thought you might be, too.)

Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as:
- Knowing when to come in out of the rain;
- Why the early bird gets the worm;
- Life isn’t always fair;
- and maybe it was my fault.

Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don’t spend more than you can earn) and reliable strategies (adults, not children, are in charge).
His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well-intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place. Reports of a 6-year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate; teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch; and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition.

Common Sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing the job that they themselves had failed to do in disciplining their unruly children.

It declined even further when schools were required to get parental consent to administer sun lotion or an aspirin to a student; but could not inform parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion.

Common Sense lost the will to live as the churches became businesses; and criminals received better treatment than their victims.

Common Sense took a beating when you couldn’t defend yourself from a burglar in your own home and the burglar could sue you for assault.

Common Sense finally gave up the will to live, after a woman failed to realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a little in her lap, and was promptly awarded a huge settlement.

Common Sense was preceded in death, by his parents, Truth and Trust, by his wife, Discretion, by his daughter, Responsibility, and by his son, Reason.

He is survived by his 4 stepbrothers;
I Know My Rights
I Want It Now
Someone Else Is To Blame
I’m A Victim

Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone. If you still remember him, pass this on. If not, join the majority and do nothing.

Like some of you, I read the so-called feminist blogs because sometimes they have some interesting and important information to share. But more often than not, they are full of bullshit mommyism mooing, much like my last post. That stuff is somewhat amusing, but also fairly aggravating when you think that in the grand scheme of things, THIS is the crap they are worried about.

Here are a couple more recent items the moos are getting nosebleeds over:

1) A couple of neo-nazis have named their kids offensive names, including “Adolph Hitler” and ran to the media to complain they were “discriminated against” when a store wouldn’t provide them a birthday cake with that name on it. (The store did offer them a blank cake, but the Nazis wouldn’t take it, since that wouldn’t get them as much media attention as their cries of discrimination.) Some of the mommyists are up in arms because NO CHILD SHOULD BE DENIED A BIRTHDAY CAKE!!!!111! Wait, so the argument is that businesses should have to do anything blatantly offensive to their customers and even employees as long as it’s about a kid? Seriously? Some unreasonable asshole can deny me my birth control (that might be medically necessary) because he thinks his bible says “Thou shalt not have birth control” (it doesn’t), but reasonable people can’t refuse to make a birthday cake that celebrates genocide? Are you kidding me? And so-called feminists are okay with this kind of double standard?

Meanwhile, the kid was not even denied a cake – Wal-Mart, staying classy as always, had no problem providing the neo-nazis with their Heil Hitler cake. The best part is that the neo-Nazi’s claim to be too disabled to work – their hero would have had them gassed for being useless! Idiots.

2) The mommists were also mooing over this: Some preggo whines that she was sexually harassed by her bosses for showing too much cleavage in the workplace. Her excuse that she has too much cleavage is that she’s pregnant and pregnant women can’t help having cleavage. Oh really? Once you get pregnant, your boobs just fall out of everything you wear, including turtlenecks? Give me a break! I doubt the bosses were harassing her for no reason because they had nothing better to do. Are you kidding me? People in the workplace dread having to deal with shit like this because the kind of gal that comes to work with her boobs hanging out is usually the one just HOPING someone will say something so she can scream “discrimination” and create a nightmare for the HR folks. Trust me, if at all possible, her employers would have liked to have said nothing. It had to have been pretty blatant for them to have to address the issue with her.

Never mind that there are REAL problems in the world that the mommyists (or anyone, for that matter) should be worried about. THIS is the kind of crap they get their panties in a twist over. Pretty fucking ridiculous!

Does having kids make you this oblivious to real world problems and start worrying about pathetic crap like this?! It would seem to be true. You better save your brain cells and stay childfree.

I’m sorry I haven’t posted much lately. I just haven’t had much of interest to post about lately or much to complain about. I really don’t want to talk about the racist, sexist, homophobic quiverfull movement anymore. Please stop emailing me about those pigs. They make me sick.

I really wasn’t that upset by that Nebraska law everyone wanted me to comment on. I look at it this way, if I had a bratty, out of control kid, I’d have been driving to Nebraska to drop him off, too!! The worst part of this is that the only reason states are allowing you to drop off kids (which are supposed to be newborns) is as a right-wing, an anti-abortion tactic, which really gets my dander up. Screw real parents or teens who are in crisis! The law is only to convince women they MUST give birth (and just drop dumps kids off afterwards – but only when they are young and cute and easy to give away).

But here is something I have found worth bitching about. Wah! Something inconvenient happened to me but in the end everything turned out okay but I’m a mommy so I’m special so I’m going to run to the media for my 15 minutes of fame and hopefully lots of free stuff from local companies wanting to make a dime off my story!!

For those of you who are not interested in clicking the link, here’s a summary: Couple decide to take a leisurely drive to the hospital while the woman is (supposedly) in labor. There was rush-hour traffic and they felt they were special and shouldn’t have to wait, so they decided to drive along the break-down lane. A cop gave them a ticket because it’s illegal (even for preggos) to drive in the breakdown lane. She later went on to have the baby at the hospital and everyone was healthy — in other words, they were only minorly inconvenienced, but that didn’t keep them from running to the media to whine.

The fun part is when you read the article and get the full details. Why were they having to deal with all that traffic on the way to the hospital, anyway? That’s the fun part. She (allegedly) went into labor at home earlier that morning, but was in no real hurry to get to a hospital. First, the couple decided to drive their older child to school and drop him off, which was probably out of their way. Then instead of going to the nearest hospital, she wanted to drive to a particular hospital 30 miles away because her older child was born there, and heaven forbid her children not be born in the same hospital!

Then the police officer that ticketed them offered (twice!) to call and ambulance but they declined. They felt they didn’t need an ambulance. (Maybe this is why the officer was suspicious? It’s an “emergency”, but they didn’t need emergency personnel?) While the couple whines that the officer held them up “5 to 10 minutes” (after they drove at least 5 minutes out of their way to drop off a child at school and at least 40 minutes out of their way to a particular hospital), the baby was born FIVE HOURS after the traffic stop.

This doesn’t exactly sound like an emergency anymore, does it?

Whether or not you want to fault the police officer for enforcing the law, alls well that ends well. The baby was born in a hospital, mother and child were both fine and healthy, and I’m sure the ticket was thrown out. So why the need to run to the media? Isn’t this the typical of the Mommy Attitude we all hate? It’s all “LOOK AT ME, I’M SPECIAL. I CREATE PEOPLE!” and “EVERYONE OWES ME SPECIAL TREATMENT AND ANYONE WHO DOESN’T I WILL DO MY DAMNEST TO GET FIRED!!!” It’s disgusting.

And these women are raising their children to have the same entitlement attitude. Wonderful!

I can’t exactly blame the police officer because he had no way of knowing if she was actually in labor! She claims it was obvious but I’m sure you could fake it like they do on TV all the time. If you start saying that its okay for people in labor to drive in the breakdown lane, pregnant woman everywhere could start using this loophole by faking labor. (I’m not saying they all *would*, but you know some would take advantage.) And hell, as ridiculous as it sounds, some people would stuff their shirts and pretend to be pregnant and in labor to get out of waiting in traffic. It’s just like the “carpool lane” issue a few years ago – all kinds of mommies took advantage of it, saying that they had their kids in the car and that constituted a “carpool” (it doesn’t). Even some pregnant women tried to claim that having a baby in their stomaches constituted a “carpool” (most definitely not!). So don’t think they wouldn’t take advantage of this – they would!!

So maybe the officer was right. Perhaps the rule needs to be: Issue the citation to the couple and if, later, they can produce a birth certificate for that same day, the court will throw out the ticket. Doesn’t that sound reasonable? It does to me, but I don’t have placenta brain, so what do I know?

And SHAME on the media for picking up this non-story. Isn’t there more important shit they could be reporting on?

This week I watched an episode of Frontline about how overmedicated kids today are.

The show talked about all the various mental health disorders that never used to be found in kids, but today millions of kids are getting labeled with these disorders. The program suggested that one million kids in the United States have been diagnosed with “bipolar disorder”, and that’s just one of the many psychiatric disorders kids in the U.S. today supposedly have. (Strangely enough, there is no similar epidemic in Europe. Hmmmmm.)

The show went on to discuss side effects that kids are developing who have been on these drugs for several years. And how some doctors think “bipolar” (also known as manic depression) is over-diagnosed by doctors who aren’t experienced in psychiatric disorders. And how some doctors admit they don’t really know how to diagnose some of these disorders and so they just put kids on some drug and see if it works. And how clinical trials have come back saying that most of these drugs were made for adults but do not work on kids. And how these drugs may or may not make kids suicidal.

One mother interviewed talked about her toddler having tantrums, so she ran him to a doctor who put him on anti-psychotic drugs to deal with the tantrums. Seriously? I avoid toddlers like the plague, but I’m pretty sure that “tantrums” are part of toddler life. You don’t drug a kid up because he has tantrums! Nothing in the program explained to us what made his tantrums so much worse than the average toddler tantrum. We were just told that his mother couldn’t deal with his tantrums. Since the age of three, she has had him on an anti-psychotic drug to control tantrums, another drug to help him sleep, and a third drug to deal with his “bipolar” disorder. Every few months, they up his dosage when the effectiveness of the drugs starts to wear off.

I found the program horrifying. My husband and I both shuddered at the fact that these parents are so quick to shove drugs down their kids’ throats to make their own lives easier. Never mind the fact that there are some nasty side effects from these drugs, some that don’t go away even after the drugs are stopped. Like the boy who started having pills shoved down his throat as a toddler and 13 years later, he has a nasty tick that he’s stuck with. He’s going to have to live his whole life with this head-jerking tick, because his parents decided that drugging him was the easy way out.

Of course, these parents would cry, “YOU DON’T KNOW! You’re just a horrible judgmental person! You don’t know what it’s like living like this! I hate drugging my kid up but I have no choice!” Gee, isn’t that the same excuse they use for just about everything? “My kid is fat. I can’t stop him from eating cookies and ice cream! He throws tantrums if I don’t buy those things for him! I have no choice!” and “I can’t help it my kid screams all through dinner at a restaurant. I just have to let him cry himself out. I have no other choice!” What is it about giving birth that causes parents to lose the ability to take responsibility for anything? Forgive me for not believing them anymore when they say they have no choice and that they can’t help it. They’ve cried wolf one too many times for me.

The problem with the Frontline program is that they didn’t even begin to speculate what might be causing this “epidemic”. Most likely because speculations might have led to blaming the parents, and in this hyper-politically correct world, we couldn’t possibly ever blame the parents for ANYTHING. Fine, if Frontline doesn’t want to speculate, I will. I have no idea if any of these theories are true, but maybe we should consider them:

Okay, set that aside for a minute. Maybe we don’t need to know *what* is causing it. Why don’t we consider what alternative ideas could be tried instead of drugging the kids.

Lastly, I’d really like to point out some very good reasons why these kids, many of whom are perfectly normal and healthy children, might be being mis-diagnosed with bullshit disorders on purpose and why the adults around them are allowing this to happen:

I am not saying there aren’t real disorders out there and that some kids might suffer from these real disorders. But this bullshit about millions of kids suddenly suffering from this mental health epidemic is ridiculous! A healthy dose of skepticism is needed since there are some very good reasons why some people would have something to gain from faking this shit. And meanwhile, these kids are being abused! Doctors and parents are doing science experiments on these kids, and who knows the long term affects they will have on the child? Drugging a kid up should be the absolute LAST resort, after trying everything else (and not just half assing it, either).

I saw another TLC trainwreck documentary called “Surviving Sextuplets and Twins”. If you like that kind of trainwreck, you may want to look for it. This one was pretty good and amusing. The parents were funny, even when they weren’t trying to be. They whined about the stupidest shit, like, “It’s soooooo hard taking six babies out to the Christmas tree farm to look for trees. Whyyyyyyy do they make the farm off road? It’s sooooo hard to push the strollers out there. And it was tooooooo coooooolllld for the babies out there!” Hysterical!! OMG, how DARE those Christmas tree farm people not pave the entire site and make it indoors so the strollers are easy to push and the babies don’t get cold! LMAO. Loved it.