Happy Forth GLBTQ and Childfree America

Well, here we are to yet another July 4th in which to celebrate our freedom. Unfortunately, for the GLBTQ and childfree communities, there is discrimination and inequality. In today's New York Times I found the irritating "'Family Friendly' White House Is Proving Less So." It croons about how awful it is that White House schedules keep PARENTS from a nine-to-five workday. The sentence that burned me was "To support working parents, the Obamas distributed laptops to aides with families--before those without children--so they could work from home." Of course, the CF have no obligations so they can work without the most basic tools 24-7.

WHY is it that the childed are automatically given things like laptops and the chance to "work at home"? Why are the childfree constantly expected to pull more than their share of the load? Why do breeders (as opposed to parents)cthink that they automatically DESERVE a 9-to-5 job? I'm sure many childfree would LOVE to be able to work 9-to-5 Monday through Friday but guess what, my friends? NOT HAPPENING! I am sick and tired of the breeder element thinking that all sorts of perks and preferences should be theirs solely by virtue of their being parents! You deserve no less and no more than any American. To the breeders: GET OVER YOURSELVES! The childfree are sick to death of all the tax breaks, special working arrangements, and all the crap you keep agitating for.

Breeders screamed untiil child-free housing complexes are damned near impossible to find. There is sufficient accomodation everywhere for families, yet when a venue is seen to be childfree, many with children invade said venue with a vengeance. It seems that the childfree are not even allowed to complain if a meal is disturbed by noisy ill-mannered parents and children! Even the 55-plus communities are being slowly infiltrated by children who either visit or are living with their grandparents. This is not acceptable. And yes, you will see the childfree challenging the assumptions of those with children in the future. I certainly will be challenging those assumptions.

As for the GLBTQ community, we are far from even the universal right to marriage. Hell, in Ft. Worth the cops raided a gay bar over Pride weekend! We are forced to fight this battle state by state by state. Even at the start of the 21st Century, we are still fighting people like NOM (who cannot seem to edit their ads) and all the rest of the homohaters who yell about how promiscuous we supposedly are yet will not allow us to be married. They say that our ability to marry will destroy "traditional marriage". We can do nothing to the institution that straights hav not already done.

So my fellow childfree and my fellow GLBTQ Americans we have a way to go til we can truly say "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty we are free at last!"

The Duggars

Is anyone as sickened by the Duggars as I am? These people are a disgrace! The son is ready to marry and the mother is having her 18th brat! At one time, people such as these were seen as trashing, unable to control themselves and their famblee size--certaintly not anyone to glorify or emulate. Now, t hese masters of fail have their own website, complete with a webmaster named Joe Bob. Break out those banjos, Bubba!

I looked at the eldest's intended. She looks like another one of these spaced-out fundies who will passively pump out one baybee after another. I'm sure she'll be dutiful and fruitful. Shades of "The Handmaid's Tale"--this is the kind of America these people want to impose on us: heterosexist, baybee-popping little fundie couples. After all, we all know that birthin' baybees is all women are good for.

Wake up, America, more of this crap is what is ahead if you elect McCain and Palin.

Childfree--And Don't Care Who Knows It!!

Yep, I'm CF and I don't care who knows it!! The childed seem to have control of the discourcse on child-rearing and from what I have been seeing of late, they 'don't know what the hell they're talking about. Children running wild, teenmoos, kids "hooking up"...the abysmal list goes on and on and on.

Now, not all of this is the fault of parents, though much of it is. Sapnking your kids is to invite Child Services to your home. Forget discipline in schools. KidLib has managed to largely eliminate discipline in any form from our schoo ls. Parents just becoming parents now probably have been raised without discipline, so how can they discipline when they have no idea of what the word means?!

The sad fact is, my generation and the generation before fell down on the job when it comes to child-rearing. Discipline started to go out the window in the 1970s and by now, it's largely a thing of the past. If there is any discpline at all, it's this nonsense known as "gentle discipline". GENTLE DISCIPLINE IS NO DISCIPLINE AT ALL! It's a plea to Snotford and Bratleigh to pleeeeeese behave. A plea comes from a place of powerlessness. You do not beg your children to do ANYTHING. You TELL them, and if they do not comply, you make sure that there are CONSEQUENCES.

You wonder why the more militant childfree refer to most parents as "breeders". It's because most parents give birth and then let their spawn run wild. The militant childfree are sick of parents who TALK about "The Most Important Job In The World" (hereafter abbreviated as TMIJITW, but actually do nothing.
We are tired of EVERY damn thing revolving around parents and/or children. We are tired of being expected to step up to the plate whenever a parent wants/needs to leave work early. We are tired of benefits being offered to parents that are not available to us. We are sick to death of breeder/child-centric society.