Comments on: Airing a Repeat: On Submitting Bitchy E-Mails to Scalzi’s Attention

By: Emilia Liz

Emilia Liz — Sun, 09 May 2010 02:51:55 +0000

Just a question: I wonder why parents of only children haven’t set up any rant communities. Perhaps there are some, but I haven’t seen any (if anyone knows of one, please let me know, not that I would want to join it, but I’d be curious to know if they exist). After all, we’re called selfish, denied sterilizations, told we’re going against God’s will, etcetera. So I would just want to know why societal disapproval hasn’t pushed parents of only children by choice to set up boards where they denigrate those who have chosen differently.

By: Emilia

Emilia — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:22:48 +0000

Catherine Shaffer, your response to those members of the childfree community who exhort others to adopt rather than have biological children made me laugh. Didn’t you know that people who preach from on high to do “A” rather than “B” rarely do “A” themselves? It’s like an ex-boyfriend of mine who chided me for spending money on my cats when I could have donated it to starving children. I asked him to get back to me when he gave up his marijuana and cigarettes and donated the money he spent on those things to charity.

By: Kate Baker

Kate Baker — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:06:13 +0000

Oh my goodness, MEEEE! Is that how you spell immagine? Someone better go wake up John Lennon and let him know!

By: John Scalzi

John Scalzi — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:42:45 +0000

If you got as far as the Duran Duran reference, you’ve already exposed yourself as a liar re: skipping most of the entry. But thanks for playing.

By: MEEEE

MEEEE — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:13:55 +0000

zzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzz I skipped most of this because it bored me….besides, who cares what your self-important but pointless self has to say?You obviously immagine yourself to be witty, clever, amusing…nope, you FAIL , dude. You are overpopulating my planet with more useless resource sucking humans, which is indeed worse than anything Duran Duran has ever done.
Unlike you, I can make my point in a couple of paragraphs, and unlike you, I have better things to do than bother to spellcheck or reitterate.

By: Cougarmama

Cougarmama — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:33:37 +0000

Anyone else have the urge to mail a thousand greeting cards with the sounds of laughing babies to Electric Bonzai?

By: CJ

CJ — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:56:52 +0000

I read some of the childfree rants. My first impression was similar to some posters here – the rants were so vehement that the people came off sounding like nuts. The jokes they made were violently anti-child, or anti-parent.

But their complaints about careless, indifferent or worthless parents who nevertheless consider themselves superior to people who choose not to have children garnered some sympathy. I’m sure many of the people on that group do feel pressured to have children, and put-upon when they have to deal with the children of others. Hell, I feel put-upon sometimes too.

And the sound of crying children can make me a little crazy too…. Being a parent is no defense.

By: Andy Rabbit

Andy Rabbit — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:25:40 +0000

you get amazed by that kind of stuff… thats amazing…

The things that amaze me are things like the view from the top of a mountain and the incredibleness (is that I word, I guess not) of my nieces…

you might guess that I’m a childless nutbag…

By: mythago

mythago — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:13:43 +0000

It never fails to amaze me how many people can’t wrap their heads around the concept of a rant community.

It never fails to amaze *me* how many people think of the whole wide world as their personal rant community.

By: Andy Rabbit

Andy Rabbit — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:57:33 +0000

I’m not getting involved, at all, but would like to thank you all for amusing me this lunchtime thanks very much.

Andy/Rabbit