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bowleserised
10/08/09

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This is the second time they've done this with a child-free women story in a year.

The previous one was even nastier – they had the women saying "I didn't want to ruin my figure" and so on, and all of it was made up.

Crapshit newspaper.
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SleepsWithButterflies
10/08/09

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I'm so glad you posted this! I've worked with Laura on the Childless By Choice project and when I read that Daily Fail article I couldn't hear her voice in it at all and knew something must be wrong. She's a non-smug, compassionate, awesome woman who never made me feel like my desire to have kids should stop me from working with her on the project. The idea that she would paint a childless life as perfect and life with children as hell is farcical.
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emfish55
10/08/09

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It must enrage the Daily Fail and other participants in mainstream media when an interview subject says something along the lines of "I respect the people who disagree with me, but when it comes to [insert any social issue], I've found this is what works best for me personally." I mean, come on people, who's gonna buy a newspaper full of articles about people living varied interesting lives as opposed to one where CHICKS ARE FIGHTING WITH EACH OTHER?
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♥ dosido☮
10/08/09

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Expecting journalistic integrity from the Daily Fail is like expecting good taste from Paris Hilton.
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greengrey
10/08/09

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Yeah, she said so herself on Jez, now that I look at it:
[jezebel.com]
First comment is someone saying she's Laura.
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Lymed
10/08/09

@greengrey: Can we bring her back? I think it is amazing that she wrote such a concise correction without showing all the anger she must possess towards the writer and editors.
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BeckySharper
10/08/09

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Does this mean that other shit they publish is also made up? Because that would go a long way to explaining why the Mail sucks so bad.
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bleedingmouths
10/08/09

@BeckySharper: Of course it's made up. I'm sure they sometimes start with a kernal of truth but they have a very specific story they want in mind and will manipulate the truth to fit their ideas.
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NotMandatory
10/08/09

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I love this bit from the link:

"Some people really want children and find that children do enhance their life experience, some people do not. There is no good or bad decision here. No one is right or wrong. You make your choices and you live with them. "

I'm with her on that! I hate that this is even an issue.
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sybann
10/08/09

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Oh for fuck's sake. They didn't even TRY to find a happy, childless woman!?
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Angua van der Woodsen
10/08/09

@sybann: No, they found a happy, childless woman and then grossly misrepresented her in an article that purported to be first-person and was instead largely made up by the Daily Fail.
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sybann
10/08/09

@Angua van der Woodsen: AH - danke - I refuse to read them on principle.
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Maritsa
10/08/09

@sybann: You should read her post on Childless by Choice, though, it's great.
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Angua van der Woodsen
10/08/09

@sybann: I applaud that stance. I also second Maritsa, her actual post is thoughtful, balanced, and eminently sane.

No wonder the Daily Fail had to make shit up.
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andBegorrah
10/08/09

@sybann: They just assumed such heartlessly barren women are like unicorns - mythical creatures who depend on the rest of us to tell their tale.
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sybann
10/08/09

@andBegorrah: Heeeeee. I exist and have no forehead horns. I have cats and dogs and a fish and a nephew. AND NO LIFE INSURANCE. No one ever tells you about that benefit of not reproducing. I cackle when I throw away the "OMG! Don't leave your family bereft and penniless!" mailings.
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sybann
10/08/09

@Maritsa: Now that I can do.
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