Current mood:	aggravated
Current music:	Deftones - The Chauffeur

I Choose Dog
Okay... looking over a link thing on childfree I find THIS:

"Meanwhile, I frequent a coffee shop where I would sometimes bring my baby (while she was sleeping) to enjoy a drink and a magazine. One day, the person at the next couple had a (well behaved) puppy. Another regular, whom I did not know by name, but I know to be childless, walked over to our section, clearly saw the baby and the puppy, and said, "Oh, how cute!" directed to the dog owner. They then entered into a discussion about age, breed, etc. My baby, besides being very cute as well, is a freakin' person!

I now hate this woman (whom I still see every few days at the coffeehouse) with a white-hot passion completely out of proportion to the alleged slight."

I'm sorry, but this is one of the stupidest things I've heard in awhile. Like, really, what is this person just expecting that everyone should be in awe of their child? I'm sorry, but yeah, your kid ain't special, there's plenty of them, and yeah, babies < puppies in terms of cuteness. In fact, a lot of babies are downright ugly. Two, there are people who aren't comfortable around babies. Three, going up to a person and going "Oooh, what an adorable little muffin!" is actually treating a baby as subhuman really, you don't see me go up to your spouse or boyfriend/girlfriend and go 'Oh, how cute/pretty/hot!' so why should anyone do that for your baby? Besides, you can pet a strange dog, but who's going to go and say "Aw, how cute, can I hold your baby?" You can interact with puppies, babies will only like blow spit bubbles and flail or start crying. Eck.