Ok, I’m not necessarily agreeing with the “one trick pony” claim, but the initial response (to me, at least) read that the OP will find a way to bitch about children in almost any thread. I’m not saying that “You post a lot about X” and “You post about nothing but X” are equivalent, but I expected OP to have a long and storied history of interjecting her thoughts on the joys of childlessness and the woes of raising kids to topics ranging from car maintenance to “Game of Thrones.” Perhaps the posts that OP has made in her 3% were memorable enough to make a lasting impression that influences recollections of her other unrelated posts (and that does look to be the case). This looks to be a matter that was blown out of proportion due to hyperbole.
And yeah, I’m not gonna touch the “visible minorities” thing.
For the topic at hand, I haven’t seen the video, but reading a variety of summaries of the content, it does sound like it is tongue-in-cheek. I’m really not sure how people are making the leap to this being a legitimate account / belief of the blogger. People make caricatures all the time, and just because it appears to be steeped in reality doesn’t mean that it necessarily is true, much like Stephen Colbert is not the hard-nosed conservative he portrays, and how “The Office” did not, in fact, portray the daily dealings of a paper company in Scranton, PA.
Now, this is coming from a gay 30’s single male who, on Sunday, is going to a birthday party for the 5 y/o daughter of two close friends. She calls me Uncle [Calatin] and I’d do almost anything for the kid. A few weeks after she was born, the parents brought her to a weekly dinner at a place that had cheap margaritas. We all knew that the dynamic was going to change, and, true to form, they left early and while they were focused on her, they were also able to maintain conversations. This is their first (and only) kid to date, so if anything, I’d expect them to err on the side of seclusion / over-protection. They make a point to attempt to include me in various events - birthday parties, dinners, and I even spent this past New Year’s Eve with them and some others. We had some drinks early in the evening, but once they put her to bed, we cut loose a little more. There were a few months where we would only communicate by phone or email, but I often received invites for gatherings, or if they just wanted me to come over so the four of us could hang out.
That being said, another married couple (who are mutual friends) ended up having twins, and while they were quite active before she gave birth, once the two were born, those friends fell off of the map almost entirely. He traveled a lot for work, though, leaving her to manage both kids alone, for days at a time, so it is completely understandable.
TL;DR - IMHO, it’s doable if all parties make an effort. And people around here really need to lighten up and not be so quick to take offense.
