Entry tags:

childfree, cute overload, pet wank, wank overload

Misanthrope Overload?
Ah, Cute Overload. A site that posts pictures of cute animals, what could people possibly wank about there? As the wiki shows, plenty.

I think Meg, the blogger, loves poking the crazies. One of the most reliable sources of "commentroversy" has been her "Cats n Racks" series. Yesterday she posted a video of a cat kneading some boobies with the hopeful tag "Nancy, it's a good thing you brought this to our attention, we've been just starved for commentroversies." Sadly, the commenters behaved themselves and mostly filled the comments with anecdotes about cats kneading soft squishy objects such as nads, ouch.

Meg would not be denied her wank, though! Clearly she had to bring out something NEW, something GUARANTEED to send her readers into apoplexy.

So today she posts... A HUMAN BABY.

*ominous chord*

263 comments so far, including the following gems:
She almost made the worst mistake of her life: Good Gods I was about to send a link to cuteoverload to someone, thank goodness I checked in first. BABIES NEED NOT APPLY.

You don't understand what your blog is about Meg! I DO: human babies are not what cute overload is about!

Whereas animals are completely silent and made of plasticine: Ugh, what's with all this worshiping at the altar of the baby? Babies are not cute, they're noisy and leak fluids. Do not want!

Uhhhh...: When I look at human babies, I just imagine the adult they will grow into... but puppies and kitties, etc., are babies forever!

I also love this comment where someone ponders changing their dissertation.

And finally, some pwnage:
human babies are not cute. if this is to be a regular occurrence, everyone i know who goes to this site will stop, including myself.

[Well, I can already tell how much we'd miss you... - Ed.]

Pass the pa-sickies.

Edit: HT to dragonfangirl. cf_hardcore cheers the brave commenters for speaking truth to power, or something. What's wrong with the word tummy? :(

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	napalmnacey 2008-04-13 02:43 am UTC (link)
	It's creepy cause it goes against evolutionary logic. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sunhawk 2008-04-13 04:58 am UTC (link)
	That's one reason yes. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	brown_betty 2008-04-13 05:55 am UTC (link)
	That, and some weird-ass belief that they were never children themselves-- or maybe they just hate their past-selves? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	napalmnacey 2008-04-13 05:58 am UTC (link)
	I don't date people that hate babies or animals. It's a sign that something is broken. I agree with the self-hate thing. A lot of people with unhappy childhoods are full-on scary cf people. I'm not talking about the regular normal people who just decide that procreating isn't for them - I respect and like those people. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	brown_betty 2008-04-13 06:02 am UTC (link)
	Hey, I'm pretty sure I don't want to take on responsibility for another human being, miniature type or not. But I haven't got anything against them. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	napalmnacey 2008-04-13 06:09 am UTC (link)
	Well, it's something I think about not doing in my life too, despite raging hormones. It's a lot of hard work and commitment and I'm a total flake. LOL. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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napalmnacey
2008-04-14 12:21 am UTC (link)
I don't mind people that don't like children, not at all. Children aren't nature's perfect miracles. They're complicated little bundles that elicit a whole range of emotions not everyone really feels they want to, need to or have to deal with. And I applaud them for making that decision and love all my childfree friends. So, yeah - I'm not, I don't hate people that hate things. That's just weird and circular.

I guess date is a bad word. Have a serious relationship with, is what I meant. Because I have a family full of children and small animals, and I want kids myself one day. So it would be a silly thing to do. :)
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also_not_a_pipe
2008-04-13 04:38 pm UTC (link)
I find that people who claim to be proud of hating anything are jerks in general.

I have to admit that the extreme "oh my God, how can you not love children? They are nature's perfect miracles! You're a monster!" crowd weird me out as much as the kid-haters. It's just... personal tastes differ, you know?
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napalmnacey
2008-04-14 12:22 am UTC (link)
Ahhh, I answered the wrong one!
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chibikaijuu
2008-04-15 07:45 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, that's it for me. I get not wanting to have kids, for whatever reason - you like your lifestyle as it is, you don't particularly enjoy caring for things, you don't care much for kids in general (because, well, they are loud, sticky, often unreasonable, hard to understand, and child logic is very much not adult logic). Not being thrilled by kids, or parenting, or pregnancy, strikes me as a totally normal and fine reaction.

It's when somebody insists that they are actively repulsed by children - not uncomfortable around because they don't know how to deal with them, but actively repulsed by the mere image of a child that I start thinking "there is something fucking wrong with you. Seriously, that does not sound healthy".
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napalmnacey
2008-04-16 01:14 am UTC (link)
It's extremism, and I don't like that in any form.
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