Comments on: Now Honeys Play Me Close Like Butter Plays Toast*

By: reprogirl

reprogirl — Sun, 28 Aug 2005 19:53:01 +0000

Hah! And if you start when you’re 35 you get told of course it’s going to be hard because you “waited” so you could “pursue your career goals” and didn’t anyone tell you that your fertility starts declining at 27.

Bastards.

By: Cass

Cass — Sun, 28 Aug 2005 16:57:22 +0000

Yeah, it’s like we can’t win no matter what. Either it’s the “you’re young, you have plenty of time” people, or it’s the “well that’s what you get for putting your career first” people. I’m trying to figure out what the magical middle is where neither group would object, but so far I haven’t found it.

BTW, been reading for a few days now and am loving your writing.

By: Lindsay Wiley

Lindsay Wiley — Sat, 27 Aug 2005 22:37:37 +0000

So glad I found your blog (via your comment over at the Barren Mare’s place). I have a feeling you’re editing all those handy internet-ready cases and articles that make it possible for me to work from home as a legal researcher/writer/editor. So maybe I’ve actually been reading your work for years.

I also started trying to conceive the first time around when I was pretty young, still in law school. Like you, I wanted to get an early start because my medical history did not foretell great fecundity. So I’ve dealt with some of those questions. It is a little weird sometimes that none of my friends from college or law school have kids. But hey, I figure I’ll be a great resource for those of them who end up dealing with IF. I can show them how to set up a blog and everything.

By: MsPrufrock

MsPrufrock — Sat, 27 Aug 2005 22:36:36 +0000

Devouring your own head, eh? That reminds me of an exchange in “Team America”:

Character 1: “I’m not afraid. I’ve seen everything.”

Character 2: “Have you ever seen a man eat his own head?”

Character 1: “Uh, no.”

Character 2: “Well, then you haven’t seen everything.”

Anyway…As a newly 27 year old, I get the same crap from my friends. Most of them do not anticipate starting families until they are at least in their early thirties. I, on the other hand, as a woman with PCOS, have no such luxury. Being such a jaded IFer as well, I secretly want to warn them that if they wait too long, it might not be as easy as they seem to think it will be.

So go and get your “so young” self pregnant. Screw ‘em.

P.S. Thanks for mentioning Charlie as well. Now I have that dumbass Cindy Crawford/Ray Charles early 90s commercial repeating in my head