“Why can’t you give up untold amounts of money, free time, peace/quiet, lack of stress, and freedom so I can have my grandkids around for a few hours a week? Stop being so selfish.”
Also, why don’t you want to bring new human beings in a world that we have destroyed, that will struggle when I’ll be gone and you’ll be powerless to help? So selfish
Well your generation made housing unobtainable… Play a stupid game win a stupid prize
Wow, the cognitive dissonance of calling your daughter selfish…
My selfish daughter won’t go through childbirth, and raise a child to adulthood and beyond in a world that is getting harder to live in so I can be “gran-gran.” The bitch. /s
there are quite a few people who seem to want to be mothers more than they want to actually have kids.
Some of our programming is hard to resist. If it wasn’t, there would be a lot less of us around!
I would be ok with there being less of us around. I would be VERY ok with that.
But fewer humans would be a good thing. We’re not going anywhere, might as well live within reason.
Don’t disagree. I’ll be the final branch on my family tree.
Lots of people are. The big advent of the modern century has been keeping more people alive longer, not having more kids.
We just happened to be born into a generation that had a glut of human labor without savvy administration to guide its usefulness.
The next generation will be leaner. But the generation after? Who can say? 8B is a lot of people. I don’t think humanity is just winking out because we drop below replacement leave.
Lots of other people are still having kids. It’s not on any one person or even one nation to worry about.
My decision was more around recognizing as a teenager that due to my upbringing I did not have the tools to properly raise a well adjusted human being. And rather than make the same mistake my parents did, I just opted out.
I got to help raise a step son later in life and think I did a decent job. But I’ve never regretted my decision to not have my own biological children.
I will just never understand the desire people have to be in total control of others.
Yes it’s my children who are selfish! Never me, couldn’t be me at all
That is so gross
I feel like there are a ton of assumptions being made in this comment section. When I first saw it I thought it was funny and imagined a much more light hearted relationship between that woman and her daughter.
I could see someone (maybe me when we were younger) trolling my Dad by putting this on his car for him to find.
It’s a joke.
Sorry! BOOMER BAD! (please with the upvotes now)
jokes are supposed to be funny
It’s a sexist joke that denigrates their own daughter for making decisions for herself.
Boomer bad
Ok, boomer.
I assume this person’s daughter is ok with the bumper sticker.
I wouldn’t assume that. What a horrible position to be in. I could see my mother slapping this on and exclaiming GET IT IT’S A JOKE?! Which, how does a reasonable person respond to that? Most would probably wince and move on, while mom is gleefully unaware at how much it hurts her daughter.
And we haven’t even gotten to what if daughter can’t have children and is too ashamed to admit it!
I don’t even assume this person has a daughter. For all we know, they have a non-binary child and wish them “happy daughter’s day” every year. Not that I have a mom like that or anything /projection
Assume the worst in people and that’s what you’ll find.
Don’t assume the best in people and you’ll less often be disappointed.
Classic pessimist vs optimist argument. Pretty sure that one is a fallacy though.
Go back to reddit you troll.
please stop being selfish and suffer 360 days of the year so that I can play with my grandchildren the remaining 5 days
Jesus, this is insane.
I hope he daughter has gone no contact. If you want kids this bad, adopt.
Dude I’d love to have kids but I’m fuckin broke with no career. The selfish thing for me to do is have kids anyway and leave them with my parents.
Y’all reacting to this with no context or anything.
I’m sure most of us know someone who would 100% give a sticker like this jokingly to their parent, and the parent thinking it’d be a laugh to slap on the car.
I sure as hell do.
So for all y’all know, this is a joke that you arent in on and getting pissed over.
Waiting for context? In MY internet?!
You can already imagine what this lady/guy looks and acts like in her/his daily life.
A wrinkly bag of entitlement, with obnoxious earrings and bad teeth.
