My one issue with it--and I know you were up against a word limit, Ms. Harris--was that once again there wasn't even a nod toward the fact that this same crap and more is flung at women of lower socioeconomic brackets. Which kind of negates the "class envy" aspect and highlights the misogyny aspect of the mother-hatred. If you're "rich" they'll focus on your "overpriced stroller," sure, but if you're not rich you're a leech, a burden, an ugly lumpish annoyance that is simply getting between them and their all-important daily activities. Mothers are women who have had sex and yet aren't all-focused on being sexy and pleasing. That's it. That's all the hate-filled infantile narcissists need to hate all mothers in all times and all places.

I see the comments here are already a zoo. Notice how the demeanor of the freetards most closely approximates a 12 year old boy. This is significant, don't dismiss it. Society is allowing an increasing number of spoiled individuals to be adolescents from cradle to grave. It is only to the detriment of society.

I got the sense the author was trying really hard to be funny and light, but the tone just came across to me as strained, like nervous laughter. Which makes sense I suppose as this isn't really that funny of a topic. It touches on some really sore issues, which it turns out the author almost completely skirts, making for a very unsatisfying read.

It also sounds like the author's friends are douchebags. I wish he could see that not all guys are like that, and that he has a choice to pick his company better. He doesn't have to hang around with the kind of idiots who would "console" a man for the "curse" of having daughters. Unless, of course, on some level he agrees with them and likes to hear their like-minded feedback.

I'm sick of the word "shiksa." You know full well what it really means. It's not cute and it's not funny. Be insecure about your ethnic background all you want, but it doesn't give you a free pass to belittle other people for being who they are.

...that "having it all" is "a baby and a career." For me the first, important step in building a fulfilling family life was marrying the love of my life and building a relationship with him. Without that, not only would "having a baby" have not physically been feasible, it wouldn't have been even a third as fun. We had to get together to make it happen. I don't mean just "dating" and matching up "profiles," but growing together as people over time and sharing ups and downs and being real with each other and wasting time hanging around and watching TV and laying around on weekends. I guess if you're to the point where freezing your eggs sounds like a viable plan for "balancing work and family" there's definitely no time for that foolishness, right? Very, very sad.

Patrick is a one-note troll, I wouldn't get too concerned about how he sees anything. He's got a problem with his mom, for whatever good or bad reason, and it somehow applies to all mothers and maybe all women, everywhere.

A psychologist typically has an undergraduate background in liberal arts or social sciences. She then goes to a doctoral program in psychology, either a research-oriented Ph.d or a slightly controversial and less-research-oriented Psy.d. There are typically no science requirements for such graduate programs beyond research methods/stats and the basic two or three classes in science required for all liberal arts majors. They do not prescribe drugs because they are not medical doctors and are not qualified to do so.

A psychiatrist is an MD who did her residency in psychiatry. After a science-oriented undergraduate degree, she goes to medical school and learns everything that other medical doctors learn there, and then does her residency specializing in psychiatry. Some psychiatrists give therapy, but most spend the vast majority of their time on psychopharmacology.

But I'm pretty sure she's not the GUY who shot up the base. WAKEY WAKEY eds, how's about getting on top of this careless error before she (rightfully) sues your butts?

After all, didn't the apostle Paul choose to change from a Roman soldier to a manipulative politician

Uh, you might want to check that on wikipedia, dude...

Look at the freetards worming out of the woodwork for this story. They get a sick kind of thrill from it, and I think a lot of them are sadists. Especially note all the florid fantasies about throwing people out of planes, drugging tiny babies with opiates, or dashing small brains against seats. Psychopaths. Thank GOD they're not breeding.

While it should be that they are the ones who choose to drive instead (since after all, that's the only way you get to be really alone in your sacred little pod of quiet when you travel) alas the airlines reward their petulant temper tantrums. So it gives me just one more reason to give that money to other transportation companies, and tell the fascist, overpriced, customer-hostile airlines to shove off.

Good grief I hope THIS one isn't about your ex husband. Please say it's not...

How about the next time whoever says "do you like that, baby?" replying, "no, actually, I'm kind of uncomfortable, why don't we try (whatever) now"? Seems like the only way this ugly gender stalemate will ever move forward is not only for men to be more considerate but for women to stop being so blinking passive-aggressive.

Please let this not be the first of many teen idiocy letters.