‘I don’t enjoy alien parasites’: Slate’s anti-child readers bare their narcissism for all to see

live action ^ | 7/18/2012 | Matthew Cullinan Hoffman

[Morgana]

Someone tell me how they do it? How do the libs cause a woman to lose her maternal instincts?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

This is how civilization dies.

[dfwgator]

When they are lonely on their deathbeds, they’re going to want a “do over.”

[FlingWingFlyer]

Margaret Ganong, a 55-year-old divorcée, thanks her “lucky stars” that abortion was available in the 1970s so that she could avoid the consequences of her youthful sexual adventures.

I wonder how many "alien parasites" she spread to her fellow travelers during her "youthful sexual adventures".

[rbg81]

Pregnancy is unnatural? Amazing.

Just proves that Liberalism, extrapolated to its logical conclusion, leads to the death of the human spirit.

[Oberon]

Being these people is its own punishment.

Fortunately for the rest of us, the FUTURE belongs to the BREEDERS!!!

[DuncanWaring]

Ping.

[KarlInOhio]

Perhaps the most crassly frank of the responses came from one Heather Gentry, an unlikely resident of the family-friendly state of Georgia. In an article entitled “No Kids for Me, Thanks: I Don’t Enjoy Alien-Parasites,” Gentry calls pregnancy “unnatural and abhorrent,” and asks why she should like to, “have my body distorted beyond recognition for an alien-looking creature to live there for nine or 10 months and use up my food and energy storage?”

If she had just said that she wasn't interested in having children or thought that she would be a poor parent she wouldn't have shown the world what a soulless harpy she is.

[allmendream]

As so often is the case - as you sow so shall you reap - you get out of life what you put into it.

Few things offer the unlimited opportunity to ‘invest’ your time and energy as children - and the reward is often commensurate.

Some people only want to ‘invest’ in themselves - a doomed proposition as that is going to ‘go out of business’ sooner than most expect.

And then they wonder - “what did I live for?” on their deathbeds in a way that those surrounded by loving children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren will NEVER have to ask themselves.

[dfwgator]

I can’t even remember what my life was like before we had our kids, and I sure wouldn’t want to go back to it.

[wbill]

“I was able to travel, go to concerts and the theater, and buy myself nice things while others were paying for orthodontia.”

I'm sure that when this person is 80, and needs to turn to the state - rather than his family - for a hand (because he's blown all of his money on nice things) ...one of Obama's grandchilren will be glad to help him out in the manner to which he's accustomed.

I'm not sure if I've *ever* read an article about more shallow, self-serving, unhappy people. Sounded to me like they were all trying to rationalize their choices.

Me? When I was 21, I thought much the same way. Then, I grew up. I love my kids, wouldn't change a single thing.

[wbill]

Being these people is its own punishment.

Really well put. In re-reading the article, I think that some of them realize that.

[LearsFool]

How do the libs cause a woman to lose her maternal instincts?

They don't. They merely give legal, medical, and moral justification for women to do it to themselves.

If a woman wants to cultivate a depraved mind, to become "without natural affection", there's no shortage of support groups to assist her.

[allmendream]

My wife is expecting our first child in.... two months and two weeks! YIKES!!!! ;)

[dfwgator]

It’s ok, a few years of getting little sleep, but it gets better. ;)

[Dr. Pritchett]

“...on their deathbeds... surrounded by loving children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren...”

All true, but how many people get this anymore?? I am concerned about these current generations.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

This is how civilization dies.
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I was trying to look at it a little more positively. A LOT less liberals to procreate. ;-)

[liberalh8ter]

By indoctrinating the weak with selfish-speak. By touting the advantages of a no-strings lifestyles without being honest about the loss of experiencing unconditional love and the joys of parenting. The liberals have carefully nurtured this generation of Sociopaths and our current state of a civilization in decline reflects this.

[Terabitten]

Kipling wrote:

On the first Feminian Sandstones we were
promised the Fuller Life
(Which started by loving our neighbour and
ended by loving his wife)
Till our women had no more children and
the men lost reason and faith,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings
said: “The Wages of Sin is Death.”

He was right.

[556x45]

Well said, well said!!!!