Sad & Creepy

I tell you, the "we have to get Maureen a boyfriend" brigade at the NY Times is tireless.

It wasn't surprising to find MoDo whining and complaining, as she does every couple months, about mens' inability to want to spend all their time with her, talking about her and stuff. Maureen, men are self-centered, we cannot waste our valuable "me time" on your incessant "you time" demands. That would be wrong, it would be a crime against our natures.

I'm sorry Michael Douglas dumped you, but jeebus, he's a leathery old bag o'bones now anyway. You may use a picture on your column that is a decade out of date, but at least you are not the living embodiment of Dorian Grey.

But it is one thing for MoDo to bitch about her lot in life. It is just plain creepy for Bobo to write about her lot in life. But then again, creepy and Bobo are not exactly strangers. Moving on from his stirring defense of Christian Natalists (i.e. "Fundie Fuckbunnies"), ye olde Bobo writes a mash note to the suffering of unusued womb owners in their 40s. Who at the NY Times could he be referring to?

Over the past 30 years, the fraction of women over 40 who have no children has nearly doubled, to about a fifth. According to the Gallup Organization, 70 percent of these women regret that they have no kids.

It's possible that some of these women regret not having children in the way they regret not taking more time off after college. But for others, this longing for the kids they did not have is a profound, soul-encompassing sadness.

YIKES that's a creepy couple of paragraphs. Bobo has really set himself up as America's chief commentator on the "needs of the womb" hasn't he? First he goes out of his way to write about the "Natalists" and now the "untouched seeds" of America's middle-aged women.

Forget chicken soup, it is syrup of ipecac for the soul!

Brooksie looks across the hall of his pristine little NY Times' office toward his redheaded colleague and, when not wondering if the carpet matches the red curtains, contemplates MoDo's fate:

I suspect that if more people had the chance to focus exclusively on child-rearing before training for and launching a career, fertility rates would rise. That would be good for the country, for as Phillip Longman, author of "The Empty Cradle," has argued, we are consuming more human capital than we are producing - or to put it another way, we don't have enough young people to support our old people. (That's what the current Social Security debate and the coming Medicare debate are all about.)

It would also be good for those many millions of Americans who hit their mid-40's and regret not having kids, or not having as many as they would like. As it says somewhere, to everything, there is a season.

WOW, that is an even creepier. I did not know that was possible. Obviously, his simplistic explanation of social security is blatently wrong again, but the guy is really creeping me out about the need for women to have babies.

Meanwhile, I have a special message to Maureen. Modo honey, if you can ever get your jaws to properly function, drop me an email. We can get together and talk about me.