Going to a parent friend's birthday with many of our friends who have kids, so there'll be a gang of young, screaming kids...
this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2023
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Is this a place to hate children, or talk about a child free lifestyle for yourself?
Talking about how the world expects you to have kids, and the pressure to have kids is a lot different than just talking about how annoying kids are to be around.
They're your friends, go hang out, spoil the kids, teach them bad words and send them home with their parents, then chill in silence at home.
I can't find an outline of what the community is here. There's not a laid out prescription of what this group is and isn't. But the most popular post by a county mile is a similar sort of complain about how there's no adult places anymore.
For me, the joke isn't about hating kids, it's the fact that as a childfree adult with many friends, life increasingly becomes about dealing with their kids at things. For the parents, they sort of get a break as the kids run around with each other. But the rest of us, trying to catch up with those friends whom we haven't seen in ages have it all punctuated by loud screaming. I still go because yes, they are my friends. It's just like many things, less great than it was.