I'm 33.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3961874&forum_id=2#35933989)

kids are easy to bond and small talk about

if you don't have either they have to look for and think about something else. which is hard because spouse and kids take a lot of headspace.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3961874&forum_id=2#35933997)

Assumes large numbers of youth are a net positive. In a world where most jobs are disappearing, that isn't certain at all.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3961874&forum_id=2#35945989)

When you first meet someone though, kids/spouse is an easy thing to talk about and bond over. So if they go kinda quiet, it’s not from annoyance but more not having anything else to bring up. The next topic is prob some generic question like if you have any fun vacations coming up.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3961874&forum_id=2#35934117)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3961874&forum_id=2#35944939)

Thankfully, xoxo has so informed me about colleges and prestigious high schools I just go on talking about their kids and the situation passes.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3961874&forum_id=2#35935471)

Patriarchy? The imposition of Male Power which restrains and endlessly postpones the Dawning of the Glorious Female Golden Age?

I beg to differ.

Behind this Lesser Void of White Collar Make-Work Programs, the stultifying sameness of ass-covering and ass-kissing, the endless postponement of decision-making in favour of "further study", "further discussion", lies the Greater Void, the Omnivorous Engine which drives every committee, every study group, every institutionalised waste of human time and energy, which drives, in point of fact, our entire degraded society.

The Wife and Kids.

If we're going to be able to afford that new dining-room set. I'm going to have to get that raise. If I'm going to be able to get enough money for the down payment on the house, I'm going to have to pull a lot of overtime. If I'm going to pay for the new living-room furniture and the ballet lessons and the tuition at the private school, I'm going to have to get that promotion.

In one of those Poor Us studies for which the Emotional Female Void is notorious, it was pointed out that after a divorce, the average male standard of living rises by (pick you own ungodly number) percent. The average female standard of living drops by (pick your own ungoddessly Poor Us number) percent. This was presented (of course) as living proof of the unfairness of the Global Economic Structure. I think the more rational explanation is that the excision of a five-to-six-foot leech from the surface of a human body is going to have more of its own blood in its own veins. Unless the leech finds another body, it is going to go hungry. (Please don't call us leeches, huffed the leeches, we prefer the term "asset-challenged".)

Corporations, a living example of the Merged Void if ever there was one, always show a preference for the Family Man when it comes to promotions and positions of responsibility. In the case of Merged Voids, as with most other permutations of existence, It Takes One to Know One. Corporations (or companies of any size, really) wink knowingly at the Little Woman and Her Brood. Once the Male Light has disappeared over the Event Horizon, once the manacle of gold has been pounded into place on the ring finger of his left hand, he is, indeed, a Wage Slave. What goes unsaid (or, rather, what has gone unsaid until now) is that he serves Two Mistresses, Twin Voids. As he labours to make his mortgage payments, pay for groceries, little Axelrod's College Fund, the new sofa, the new drapes, the bigger house, the Company can rest easy. In labouring to fill the insatiable Void Need for material possessions at home, his time and his energy and his spirit disappear into the Vaginal Bottom Line of the workplace. Divorce, once badly thought of, has yielded even greater benefits. The employee with a Wife and Mistress, and later a Wife and an Ex-Wife (and still later a Wife, an Ex-Wife and a Mistress) is very much rocking to the beat of the Merged Void. Assuming he's going to get a little ahead of himself, the Bank Void steps in with an easy-payment schedule.

Ah, success.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3961874&forum_id=2#35944532)

They go from being upbeat and interested in what I have to say, to politely running for the hills as soon as I say I'm not married and have no kids.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3961874&forum_id=2#35944617)

if you had anything interesting to say, they wouldn't care about your marital status/kids. spouse/kids is a question someone asks when a conversation comes to a lull and there is nothing else to talk about. so they leave.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3961874&forum_id=2#35944685)

I'm simply doing what I believe is in my best interest.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3961874&forum_id=2#35944682)

I owe society nothing.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3961874&forum_id=2#35944745)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3961874&forum_id=2#35944707)

also people who invest all their time and energy into family tend to be dumbasses who can't manage a full life simultaneously with raising children. dumbasses are typically more suspicious and less open-minded to differences. it's feedback loop. the people who are the most one-track invested in family are the most relative when they encounter anyone who isn't corralled into the same lifestyle. there is nothing on earth that dumb proles hate more than when confronted with people who don't share their exact values and the tendency festers with age.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3961874&forum_id=2#35946002)