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"My child is not an animal."
(Maybe that's not the most irritating thing, but it's pretty fucking annoying, don't you agree?)
Say it with me, very loudly:
Children are animals.
Unless, of course, you bought your child at a plant nursery, or built it from spare parts, in which case I suggest you give some context before trotting that line out.
Most children, though, perform all the functions that you'd expect from, well, animals - they eat, they poop, they sleep.
Now, if you mean to say "My child is not a dog", say that, and if you mean to say "I think doing this, that, or the other thing is demeaning", then say that, and if you mean to say "Actually, my kid is a robot", go ahead and say that. But please - stop it with the "not an animal" line!
(Maybe that's not the most irritating thing, but it's pretty fucking annoying, don't you agree?)
Say it with me, very loudly:
Children are animals.
Unless, of course, you bought your child at a plant nursery, or built it from spare parts, in which case I suggest you give some context before trotting that line out.
Most children, though, perform all the functions that you'd expect from, well, animals - they eat, they poop, they sleep.
Now, if you mean to say "My child is not a dog", say that, and if you mean to say "I think doing this, that, or the other thing is demeaning", then say that, and if you mean to say "Actually, my kid is a robot", go ahead and say that. But please - stop it with the "not an animal" line!
