thin skin

[mamajoan]

I considered deleting the troll's cruel comment from my last post, but I think I'll leave it there, at least for a little while, in case anyone wants to have a look at it and marvel at the asshole-ishness.

It's amazing how much a piece of random, apparently pointless vitriol can hurt one's feelings.

Nice going, anonymous asshole. You made a grown woman cry. I bet you're happy now, you disgusting little piece of shit.

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please please read this

[lightningrose.livejournal.com]

It's one of my favorite Anna Quindlen columns called "Playing God on No Sleep" -- http://fact.on.ca/news/news0107/nw010702.htm

You're an excellent mommy who happens to post her real feelings on a _journal_. This is where you're supposed to be honest, and you share these things with your _friends_. The fact that some git wants to be snotty about you worrying about the logistics that make up single motherdom just means he is or she is a git. And frankly, if all I heard from you was flowery postings about how Isaac has made you a Complete Real Woman I might drive to Massachusetts to find out what happened to my college chum.

Bollocks to anyone who thinks what you do is easy or that you don't do it well.

[psu-jedi.livejournal.com]

They don't even have the balls to post using their name...you shouldn't give them a second thought. (Though I know easier said than done...)

[tiggrrl.livejournal.com]

What a fuckhead. Sorry, all my friends who are parents talk about stuff like that, it's part of the reality of raising a kid. You clearly weren't complaining about Isaac, you're just talking about having to juggle desires and committments.

[nonethewiser.livejournal.com]

They clearly have no clue. Not a one.

[kenboy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, what everyone else has said.

Asshat.

I don't always comment on them, but your Isaac posts are quite often about stuff that we've been through with Nate just a few months earlier. I don't think they're excessive, I don't think they're annoying or wrong or whatever, and I don't see where you're coming off as inconvenient or whatever.

Incomprehensible.

[ww1614.livejournal.com]

:( It was an asshole who deserves to be ignored. Or, alternatively, we can find out where (he?) lives. (heh heh heh) You have an IP addy?

[mamajoan.livejournal.com]

yeah, I did try looking up the IP and it was inconclusive. ah well.

[azurelunatic]

The second to last time I had an AC flaming away, it turned out to be my obnoxious ex drunk. This is why when I had AC commenting turned on, I also had IP address logging for both logged in users and ACs, because playing matchup was fun.

[bearblue.livejournal.com]

I went and read the comment and then I read the comments here. They say it better than I do.

So I'll post something else instead.

*hugs*

WTF?

[plaidder.livejournal.com]

You know, I can understand why people flame me, seeing as our country is more politically polarized than it ever has been and the right-wing nuts are getting desperate. However, I'm at a loss to understand why anyone would feel a burning need to flame you over your posts about Isaac. Either this is someone who personally hates you for reasons you probably don't know about and just felt like sticking the knife in, or there's a lunatic out there who trolls Livejournal just looking to stir up shit and he visited you yesterday.

Raising kids is like teaching. Everyone who's never done it thinks they can do it better than people who have been doing it all their lives, and most of them are wrong. Pay no attention to the asshole.

C ya,

The Plaid Adder

[xochiquetzl]

{{{{{chlaal}}}}}

[babyotto.livejournal.com]

asshat.

And FWIW, the logistics of *two* are even worse than the logistics with one. Not that I don't adore having two, just that -- well, it's harder, isn't it.

The Worldcon we went to had free daycare passes ?for everyone for two sessions? -- at least for volunteers. So you may find that you can put him in the daycare there without spending very much at all.

Other throught: How close to the daycare is your mom? Could she pick him up or drop him off on Wed/Fri? That would at least give you a little more space. How about if you bought her a big bunch of flowers/chocolates? (That always seems to work for my mom).

[mamajoan.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I definitely should find out if volunteers get any such perks, although it's starting to look like I won't actually get much volunteering in.

My mom lives as far away from daycare as I do. I am considering asking her to do a pickup, though I suspect she'll probably say no. But you never know, so I'm working up my nerve to mention it. (LOL, chocolates she does NOT need -- she just got a huge box from a client at work.)

[morgan-dhu.livejournal.com]

Obviously, this troll has no idea what it's like to be a parent in the real world. When I read your posts dealing with working out logistics, I'm always struck by how much attention you pay to making sure that Isaac's needs are met, while still making sure that there's time for you to do what you need to do to maintain a life of your own.

You're doing the right things - and that includes talking about how difficult it can be at times. There are frustrations as well as great joys in parenting - and denying that bit of reality only makes things worse. Acknowledging the work of parenting is a very healthy thing to do, and in no way diminishes the joy of parenting. But then, you already know that, don't you?

(((((Hugs)))))

[algernon-mouse.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

I happen to think that you're a wonderful mother, and Isaac is a very lucky little boy. Obviously, this person is an ass. I hope you pay them no mind, love.

[frightened.livejournal.com]

My goodness, what a dickhead.

If Anonymous Coward doesn't realise that parenting takes no small amount of planning and work, and flames those smart people who do, I pray he or she never has kids.