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Parents. We, the childless, love you. We love your kids. We see how hard all of this is. We (or at least I) can acknowledge your quarantine is harder than ours. It's just, three times this week I've seen, out of nowhere, "Childless people don't know how easy the have it."
And always, "Childless people don't know our challenges, because nobody talks about it." Except you do talk about it. A lot. Even pre-pandemic. You tell us we don't know what hard is, or tired is. You might be right. But it is DEFINITELY not something that nobody talks about.
That's it. We just want you to stop saying we don't know how hard it is /c nobody talks about it. We don't want you not to talk about it! We're your friends & want to be here for you. We just want you to stop bringing us up from nowhere to say we have it easy & don't know it.
Talk about that shit. We are sympathetic. It looks really hard I for sure know I couldn't do better. Just, if we're not even in the conversation, don't bring us up to announce that we, as a monolith, don't know about the thing you talk about all the time.
Well, this got a lot of attention while I was sleeping. Good points were made! One major one is that, in or or out of a pandemic, our society does not give parents the support it should (& many also want to limit reproductive choice). TRUE AND RELEVANT.
Parenting is still not valued and respected as work, and it sure as shit IS work. And I respect the hell out of people who really are trying to keep these small time bombs alive, and not just that, but trying to raise them into healthy adults who are good to other humans.
My other takeaway from the flood of responses & discussion overnight: I'm pleasantly surprised - nay, pleasantly SHOCKED - to find no responses telling me I'm an ugly feminist shrew who is childless b/c no man would want to fuck me. IT'S A TWITTER MIRACLE.
