Anonymous asked:

the number of people who feel entitled to comment on your parenting is kind of horrifying. I'd heard that happens to pregnant people but I'm actually in a mild state of shock about how bad it is. you are handling it with extraordinary grace, but what the fuck.
luminousalicorn

It’s okay, @andaisq just taught me to block anons so when I’m sick of it all will be well.

It’s weird, I didn’t really get mean anons before.  Hypothesis is that I don’t usually seem vulnerable but now I’m impregnated and therefore probably hormonal and irrational and really easy to make cry, open season, whee?

nuclearspaceheater

It’s just the Public School Internet Defense Force, who are hired by teachers’ unions, textbook manufacturers, and “smart classroom” companies to harass home-schoolers online.

worldoptimization

I actually get it? Like, I’m not even a parent but whenever I see someone making different parenting choices from the ones I would make I have a visceral reaction of WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU YOUR CHILDREN WILL BE RUINED. Obviously,

1) this is irrational, parenting doesn’t actually matter that much and the children will probably be fine

2) actually expressing that reaction to the person in question is incredibly rude, mean, and unproductive.

#personal