Comments on: Rant: Taking the Leap into Quiet Rebellion http://www.quietrebelwriter.com/2008/02/29/rant-taking-the-leap-into-quiet-rebellion/ Writing and Creative Success Through Righteous, Rockin' Rebellion Wed, 08 Oct 2008 05:15:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 By: Elizabeth McQuern http://www.quietrebelwriter.com/2008/02/29/rant-taking-the-leap-into-quiet-rebellion/#comment-13 Elizabeth McQuern Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:23:52 +0000 http://www.quietrebelwriter.com/2008/02/29/rant-taking-the-leap-into-quiet-rebellion/#comment-13 I like your attitude and the ideas and actions you find to express it. I think the PIPOM is a great idea, and on a side rant, I think it's interesting that so many of the bridezillas who are openly greedy about the goods they receive for getting married are so often the ones whose unions fall apart before long. Should people who get divorced give back all their toasters and spice racks? It only seems fair. (Only partially kidding.) I like your attitude and the ideas and actions you find to express it.

I think the PIPOM is a great idea, and on a side rant, I think it’s interesting that so many of the bridezillas who are openly greedy about the goods they receive for getting married are so often the ones whose unions fall apart before long.

Should people who get divorced give back all their toasters and spice racks? It only seems fair. (Only partially kidding.)

]]> By: Amy http://www.quietrebelwriter.com/2008/02/29/rant-taking-the-leap-into-quiet-rebellion/#comment-15 Amy Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:12:53 +0000 http://www.quietrebelwriter.com/2008/02/29/rant-taking-the-leap-into-quiet-rebellion/#comment-15 Hey Elizabeth - I think you hit it on the head. Thanks. Hey Elizabeth - I think you hit it on the head. Thanks.

]]> By: Mandax http://www.quietrebelwriter.com/2008/02/29/rant-taking-the-leap-into-quiet-rebellion/#comment-3165 Mandax Sun, 18 May 2008 06:48:43 +0000 http://www.quietrebelwriter.com/2008/02/29/rant-taking-the-leap-into-quiet-rebellion/#comment-3165 Whenever I have voiced my refusal to either get married or to have kids I have been accused of wanting all the fun with no responsibility; of being immature, of not knowing what I want. I have been given predictions of regret that will arrive in the precise moment when I am too old to bear children. All of the above from women. Men's reactions are less dramatic, but still some react as if there was something terribly, awfully wrong with me. I now avoid the child/ wedding talk as much as possible because I resent having to explain what should be a no-brainer: that I should be able to live my private life the way I want, to choose whether to bear or not children without the intromission and judgment of family and strangers. Whenever I have voiced my refusal to either get married or to have kids I have been accused of wanting all the fun with no responsibility; of being immature, of not knowing what I want. I have been given predictions of regret that will arrive in the precise moment when I am too old to bear children. All of the above from women. Men’s reactions are less dramatic, but still some react as if there was something terribly, awfully wrong with me.

I now avoid the child/ wedding talk as much as possible because I resent having to explain what should be a no-brainer: that I should be able to live my private life the way I want, to choose whether to bear or not children without the intromission and judgment of family and strangers.

]]> By: Amy http://www.quietrebelwriter.com/2008/02/29/rant-taking-the-leap-into-quiet-rebellion/#comment-3175 Amy Sun, 18 May 2008 17:43:11 +0000 http://www.quietrebelwriter.com/2008/02/29/rant-taking-the-leap-into-quiet-rebellion/#comment-3175 @Mandax. AB. SO. LUTELY. Precisely my experiences and thoughts. It's frustrating and disheartening at the same time. Thanks for stopping by, and for the heartfelt comment. @Mandax. AB. SO. LUTELY. Precisely my experiences and thoughts. It’s frustrating and disheartening at the same time. Thanks for stopping by, and for the heartfelt comment.

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