People seriously tend to turn into complete freakazoids when they get a chance to badger pregnant women. Just see this comment from a weird creature – who claims to be a woman, no less! – and on whose blog I never left a single disrespectful comment.
The funniest thing is that the attack of nastiness overcame her precisely in reaction to a post where I asked people to stop dumping their aggression on me. And I don’t doubt that she screeches a lot about being a feminist both at work and in her private life, seeing no contradiction between identifying this way and bullying a pregnant woman whose only crime is that a long time ago she dared to express on her own blog an opinion that Her Majesty did not approve.
This is very, very sad.
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People are truly pathetic. The Internet truly brings out the freaks and the weirdos in the world and it would be a shame if it would have to resort to comment moderation to keep these morons from posting their filth here.
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I know, I’m trying to avoid having to ban people by appealing to their reason. Unfortunately, not many have it.
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I’m trying to think back to how it was when I was pregnant to see if it’s any different over here. I remember my (now ex-) mother-in-law was the most critical, but she was about everything so I just ignored her.
I think people are more discreet perhaps in France. I did get some unsolicited advice but not much. What stands out most with my first pregnancy was that we were buying a house and the bank was horrible to me making me rush around at 8 months pregnant like a demented hippo getting papers together when it was, in fact, their job. I was so stressed I was put on total bed rest at the start of my maternity leave (6 weeks before the birth) for fear the baby was on his way.
Actually, people were pretty horrible in the supermarket too. There are special tills for pregnant women and those who are in the queue but not pregnant have to let the pregnant woman pass in front. There was so much bad grace, muttering and evil looks you had to be pretty tough to go through with it.
Not the same unpleasantness as your doom and gloomers, but not nice all the same.
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“Actually, people were pretty horrible in the supermarket too. There are special tills for pregnant women and those who are in the queue but not pregnant have to let the pregnant woman pass in front. There was so much bad grace, muttering and evil looks you had to be pretty tough to go through with it.”
– What’s wrong with people? This reminds me of those weird folks who start giving nasty looks to people with crying infants. It’s an infant, for God’s sake, they tend to cry. That’s normal. The parents are not doing it on purpose to bug anybody.
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