As a teenager I lived in mortal terror of hearing my parents having sex. As an adult I am glad they still like each other enough to have sex but still lowkey live in mortal terror of hearing it.
All of this just convinces me more that children should not be allowed on the internet, for the sake of society. Sure, it gives them brain damage, but being exposed to childrens' takes also causes brain damage in adults, and they matter too!
I am completely unable to be in the mood to have sex if one of my kids is awake, but WTF? People actually think it’s “wrong” to have sex while your kids are in the house?! The problem with these people is that in every parent/child situation, they relate more to the child than to the parent, because they understand the mentality of children more than the mentality of adults.
Re: “retarded”: I was born in 1986, and when I was growing up, it was perfectly fine to say “retarded” if you were using it in a neutral, descriptive way for someone with mental retardation. Think, “Leonardo DiCaprio plays the retarded younger brother of Johnny Depp’s character,” or, “Every summer, my friend’s brother spends a week at a camp for mentally retarded kids.” I think it was a mistake to let people’s derogatory use of it make it socially unacceptable to use the word neutrally, because every other suggested term doesn’t communicate the idea nearly as clearly as “retarded” or “mentally retarded.”
The British, at least for a while, went with “has learning difficulties” - which didn’t work because you can have learning difficulties for all kinds of reasons besides a low IQ. “Mentally disabled”? Again, not solely about IQ. “Special needs”? Seems to be hated by everyone it’s used to describe, especially autistic people - who, again, are not necessarily low IQ. Also has a cloying sense of euphemism to it. “Intellectually disabled”? I mean, I guess - but it’s three times the syllables, and “ID” as initials already stand for something else.
When I was a kid, people used “gay” as an insult, too. “That math test was gay,” “it’s so gay that my parents grounded me,” “shut up and quit being gay.” And eventually people said, “Don’t be an asshole. There’s nothing insulting about being gay.” We should have just said, “Don’t be an asshole. There’s nothing insulting about being retarded,” instead of insisting that a previously acceptable medical term was now a slur.
This reminds me of the most depressing thing I've seen about parenthood: Emily Oster's survey showing only 3% of parents with a kid under 5 get some more than twice a week, and even when their kids are older than 4, that only rises to 6%! There is an absolutely devastating crisis of sexlessness among parents.
Where the youngest is 1-4, 34% reported it 1-2/week, and 45% 1-2/month.
For kids 5+, it was 38% 1-2/week, and 37% 1-2/month.
I agree - neckbeard Veronica! And on the "sex when parent" theme, healthy sex life is critical for relationship stability - which is what every child should need! Ergo, parents need to be having more sex, not less.
As a teenager I lived in mortal terror of hearing my parents having sex. As an adult I am glad they still like each other enough to have sex but still lowkey live in mortal terror of hearing it.
All of this just convinces me more that children should not be allowed on the internet, for the sake of society. Sure, it gives them brain damage, but being exposed to childrens' takes also causes brain damage in adults, and they matter too!
Wife and I definitely paid $300 for overnight babysitters so we could conceive kids 2 & 3 in a motel 6 (we did not)
There’s no way Veronica isn’t a neckbeard
I am completely unable to be in the mood to have sex if one of my kids is awake, but WTF? People actually think it’s “wrong” to have sex while your kids are in the house?! The problem with these people is that in every parent/child situation, they relate more to the child than to the parent, because they understand the mentality of children more than the mentality of adults.
Re: “retarded”: I was born in 1986, and when I was growing up, it was perfectly fine to say “retarded” if you were using it in a neutral, descriptive way for someone with mental retardation. Think, “Leonardo DiCaprio plays the retarded younger brother of Johnny Depp’s character,” or, “Every summer, my friend’s brother spends a week at a camp for mentally retarded kids.” I think it was a mistake to let people’s derogatory use of it make it socially unacceptable to use the word neutrally, because every other suggested term doesn’t communicate the idea nearly as clearly as “retarded” or “mentally retarded.”
The British, at least for a while, went with “has learning difficulties” - which didn’t work because you can have learning difficulties for all kinds of reasons besides a low IQ. “Mentally disabled”? Again, not solely about IQ. “Special needs”? Seems to be hated by everyone it’s used to describe, especially autistic people - who, again, are not necessarily low IQ. Also has a cloying sense of euphemism to it. “Intellectually disabled”? I mean, I guess - but it’s three times the syllables, and “ID” as initials already stand for something else.
When I was a kid, people used “gay” as an insult, too. “That math test was gay,” “it’s so gay that my parents grounded me,” “shut up and quit being gay.” And eventually people said, “Don’t be an asshole. There’s nothing insulting about being gay.” We should have just said, “Don’t be an asshole. There’s nothing insulting about being retarded,” instead of insisting that a previously acceptable medical term was now a slur.
Sounds like Bed Bath & Beyond needs to start selling the soundproof child pods from Nathan for You: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_cWXEOSg4Y
This reminds me of the most depressing thing I've seen about parenthood: Emily Oster's survey showing only 3% of parents with a kid under 5 get some more than twice a week, and even when their kids are older than 4, that only rises to 6%! There is an absolutely devastating crisis of sexlessness among parents.
Where the youngest is 1-4, 34% reported it 1-2/week, and 45% 1-2/month.
For kids 5+, it was 38% 1-2/week, and 37% 1-2/month.
https://parentdata.org/your-sex-lives-after-kids/
I agree - neckbeard Veronica! And on the "sex when parent" theme, healthy sex life is critical for relationship stability - which is what every child should need! Ergo, parents need to be having more sex, not less.