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⌈ Secret Post #2800 ⌋

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[Song of the Lioness]

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[Genso Suikoden II]

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[Gordon Ramsay]

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[Outlast: Whistleblower]

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[Chris Pine/Zachary Quinto]

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[Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger]

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[Johnny Wander/Lucky Penny]

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[Doctor Who]

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[Daft Punk]

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[Discworld]

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[Grant Imahara, Kari Byron and Tory Belleci]

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[The Hobbit]

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I didn't necessarily see it as a bad way of phrasing it, but I'll refrain from it of it offends.

I mean "baby rabies", though I've never heard that one before, kinda feels like it's in the same category as "crotch droppings". I get that you don't want to be ridiculed for being childfree, and you are 100% justified in that, but ridiculing people who choose to have children or who really want children - even if it's indirect - isn't really cool, either. (In short - why can't we all just get along?)

I'm sure you don't actually think this way about people who want to have kids. I'm sorry if my reaction is/was extreme.

I think it's a perfect description of characters suddenly going NEED BABIES in shows though.

And let's be honest, some people get like that in real life too.

ok, that's fair. But that's not what most people who want/have kids are like.

For what it is worth, I've mostly seen baby rabies get used by people who want kids, not the childfree.

It's sort of used to describe when people who didn't necessarily want kids before, or who did but were sort of normal about it, suddenly get really obsessed by it. I'm not sure there is an actual (neutral) term for the phenomenon, except maybe getting clucky - but that's a bit different, and I've definitely seen it happen in real life.

Which I do differentiate from just the regular desire to have kids. And obviously there is a difference between real people and shows. If I'd have to name a show, I'd say Bones got baby rabies - as it wasn't about babies before, and now it's babies in almost every episode. I also have issues with Amy's pregnancy on Doctor Who, for example - for opposite reasons: she never mentioned wanting kids, but then she's all maternal when she basically wakes up to having one.

It's not even about being taken seriously, I guess. Like, I do get that people change their minds, can't even guarantee I won't.

It's more that is sort of ruins a character for me if they do a 180 in the personality because of kids. Mostly cause it sort of hits home as it's something that happened to what used to be my best friend, and now she's pretty much incapable of holding a conversation without mentioning her kids. And it really is about the personality change - I have two other friends with kids who are not like that.

And nah, you can react. Obviously there's still the thing where something might sound different to a native speaker, as well. I remember a discussion once where my "hell no" was taken as much more grave than it was meant.

...ok. All of that is fair and I get where you're coming from.

I guess I felt like in your original comment you were setting up a dichotomy between "childfree" and "baby rabies". That's what I took issue with.

(Though to be fair some people *do* suddenly get the urge to have kids. Biological clocks are a thing. It's one thing if that totally upends the rest of their life, though, I guess.)

omg it really does.

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