The assumption that "it's just a phase" and "I felt the same way but I got over it."
From the men: that we're happy to help support their children through unjust tax breaks and school property taxes. From the women: the inevitable pity and resultant sermon.
Men: their defensiveness. Women: their argumentativeness.
I'm not very open about my childfree status, so I don't have any issues about it.
Not to sound arrogant, but I really don't care what anyone thinks of my choice. If they don't like childfree people...BITE ME!
No one ever gets on me about it...not childed men or anyone else. I just have a manner that says, "Don't tell me how to live and I won't tell you."
Childed men are in total denial. I have one friend who honestly admits he doesn't like kids and never should have had them, while most men I know try to lie to themselves with a heavy sigh and, "Yeah, but it's worth it." Comes out sounding patently false, and I thank the stars I'm not them. Childed women are just placenta brains that think the world revolves around their uterus and its vacated tenant. They think the fact that their plumbing works places them on a pedestal, and that we should all worship "The Hardest Job in the World(tm)."
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For those interested in reading more about childfree men's opinions, there's an excellent book entitled, "The Chosen Lives of Childfree Men," by Patricia Lunneborg. You can find it HERE
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