If you don't like kids, have an aversion to kids, had bad experienced as a kid/with your parents, whatever, why would you want to post in a thread where a bunch of people are basically celebrating and discussing them and the nuances of their existance?
Honestly, I am just curious.
I got all shitty with Havvie, and I apologize for not utilizing any sort of tact, but if kids aren't your speed, why post?
If you want everyone to agree with you on a particular topic, a livejournal community would probably be more appropriate than a discussion forum. You seem to think a dissenting opinion is trolling the happy baby thread - I don't think this is the case.
Though granted, my contribution was something of a troll
Which I intended to leave at that, but am a compulsive forum whore :/ so my stance is the following:
I don't particularly feel like I'm going to have kids ever. Definitely not at the moment, despite my friends from high school becoming mothers
which makes me feel really fecking old
That said, I think I'm in the 'don't like
obnoxious kids' camp. The ear splitting piercing screams and demanding brats I could live without. However, I don't think I can actually generalize to 'not liking kids'... there's been plenty of times when I've been fine with kids being around me...
The other day I was in a coffee shop with a friend and a little kid from another table loudly piped up "what does 'die' mean?" We gave eachother 'oh shit' looks, but it turned out she meant hair dye, and was referring to the fact my friends hair was pink ^^ She asked if my hair was dyed too, and the father said yes it was. I didn't catch what she said next, but he replied "I think they just want a quiet cup of coffee, don't you?"
I found that exchange amusing/endearing rather than annoying. And I thought the dad handled her questions well.
And when I went to see my friends baby, that was also fine. (He puked on another friend, but not on me *\o/*) He was a cute little critter who looked quite happy and interested in everything and wasn't always bawling his eyes out.
(though that said, I was happy to interact with him from a distance, and when nappy changing occured I made myself scarce >.>)
So I guess, much like the rest of humanity, there's a small subset of kids I can actually get on with for a short period of time, and the rest I don't like