9 thoughts on “Spreadin’ Love 570”

  1. When women don’t want daughters. Is this really a trend? Really?
    No. I sometimes hear, “I’m lucky I have boys” or “I hear that girls are so much harder” from moms with only sons who see me and the three Raggirls rambling around town without any man children. (I think the youngest is now old enough that we’ve moved past “Are you going to try again for a boy?” “Again? We weren’t trying for a boy the other times!”)
    But I’ve never heard someone actively denigrate or wish against a girl that they actually have or might have.

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  3. My wife’s interest in going for number 3 really hinged on the fact that #1 and #2 were boys. So, Rags, we did try again…
    Now, is #3 more difficult? Well, she’s different. Boys, you give them a video console and a team, you are most of the way there. Girls, there is drama, and there are mean girls out there, and bullying.
    On the writer’s claim that things are tougher for girls, that is crap. At this point, colleges are enrolling mostly women, the younger people in the civil service are mostly women, and the jails are full of men. The flamboyant successes are more frequently gents, but so are the utter and abysmal failures. If you want a nice kid who will have a smooth life and diaper you in your old age, a daughter is a better bet. If you want Bill Gates, maybe a son, but you may get John Wayne Gacy, too.

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  4. My dad was one of four boys, and he was the father of four girls, and he would tell you that he’d pick 4 girls over 4 boys any time.

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  5. Isn’t the fact that something is in Jezebel a pretty strong warning sign that it’s nonsense? Not definitive, perhaps, but worth being pretty skeptical about?

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  6. I am SOOOOooo pumped for “The Avengers.” We’re going to have so much fun watching Tony Stark snark!
    (Oh, and will I sound horrible if I say that I was wildly relieved to have two daughters? I consider sons a lot more work than daughters but that’s my own weird feeling, I know.)

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  7. I have two girls and in many ways it’s like experiencing the worst parts of middle school and high school all over again vicariously — the mean girls, the trauma over the clothes, the cheerleaders and the cheerleader moms. It’s definitely not for the faint of heart. I think bringing my daughters through this phase of life is going to force me to deal with a lot of my own “stuff” — stuff I’d honestly prefer to forget. (For the record, both my husband and I were semi-miserable through both junior high and high school — so we’re both finding it really hard to have to relive it all on a daily basis.) I could see a woman saying “If I had a choice, I’d rather not go back to junior high — even vicariously.”

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  9. Ugh. I am such a bad nerd. I was going to try to see all of the Marvel superhero movies before Avengers came out, but so far I’ve only seen the first Iron Man, so I’m going to probably end up skipping it.
    I’ve mostly given up for myself, and am just living vicariously through my little nerd girls. Streaming Star Trek has been great. (“Which one should we watch tonight, girls?” “Evil Spock!” “Shirtless Fencing Sulu!” “The Tribbles!”) Not sure when they will be old enough to share Xena and Buffy.

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