Every single damn time you say you’re old and happy without kids on the internet:
“Who will visit you in the nursing home”
“YOUR BLOODLINE WILL DIE”
So you’re basically saying I should have had kids because I’m Count Dracula and need to maintain my army of dependent slave progeny to cater to my whims? Seems healthy.
@raphaelmorgan @hacks4pancakes
I wonder whether the ability to have non-familial connections is getting better or worse in different areas. E.g. when I was a kid, we had "the Grandma" as a neighbour. She was actually a grandma (I was friends with her two grandchildren), but she was also a grandma to ~every child living in the vicinity. I also remember a semi-retired gardener, who ran a tiny gardening store two streets away, whom I'd randomly visit every so often on the way home from school. I now live in a different country, so can't really see changes of that _over time_.
@robryk @raphaelmorgan @hacks4pancakes That's what I aspire to be. My kid has told us he is absolutely not having kids, so I already know I'm getting grand-pigeons instead, and that's fine with me. Tons of kids around here I can teach feminism and hand-sewing.