Bun in the Oven

This little ditty for my web talk show relates to “Ageism.” This funny little online video is about how society is telling me that now would be a good time to have some offspring, and I’m just not feeling it yet. I don’t want kids right now. And I don’t know if I’ll want them in the future. So all you people who keep asking me, especially the ones with crying, drooling, stained kids bouncing on their hips — stop it. Stop it now. End the pressure. I don’t understand why people pressure other people to have children. Maybe that’s because I don’t have them, and they’re really trying to do me a solid. Maybe they are just brainwashed by our culture into thinking that there is a set time for having a baby in your life. I’m sure the love you experience when you have kids is like nothing else. I get that intellectually. So maybe people with kids who are pressuring me to have kids are really just trying to make sure I get to experience that love while I’m on the planet. Maybe. Maybe NOT, too. Somehow I just feel like they want me to be as miserable as they are, or as tired and overworked, or as frustrated with watching their own me-time and career goals get harder and harder to reach. This is not a nice picture I’m painting, I realize. But still. I can’t help but feel like they’re reaching out to me with sticky, drooled on, goopy-fooded-on fingers chanting, “come join us…come join us…” Anyway.  I still don’t want kids yet. Maybe one day I will, but until then, all you baby-pushers, kindly shut up. NOTE: This personal video is one of my all-time favorites and has been shown whenever I speak at conferences, conventions, etc. It always get a laugh, and women always be coming up to me after to say IFEELTHESAMEWAYOHMYGOD! That’s why this video form my web talk show rules.