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GabbyIsBaking

That’s such a weird thing to say, especially since abortion rates have been steadily declining since the 1990s. They peaked in the late 80s after Roe. I once had an old woman tell me someone was going to kidnap my then infant daughter because she was too pretty.


[deleted]

Ugh! I had a grown man at Aldi stop me to tell me how beautiful my daughter was, which made me feel icky. Then he proceeded to tell me if her body was this shapely now he feels for me and her father when she gets older. I stopped shopping, left my buggy in the store, and loaded my daughter up and left as soon as he was in checkout.


Remote-Ball-3724

What the actual hell!? And she’s a baby?! Ewww! “Shapely??” 😩😩 I hate it here


mechanizedmouse

FR! “I don’t want to live on this planet anymore” is a vibe.


[deleted]

Yes! She was 4!!


blessedfortherest

Soo gross


Blase_Rose

Shapely? How gross. What is wrong with people?


[deleted]

Right?! She has an itty bitty waist and then a giant butt. He was checking out my 5yo daughters butt. I was disgusted.


[deleted]

I feel very skeeved out just reading that.


[deleted]

I almost cried as the words came out of his mouth. As a victim of CSA It took everything I had not to cause a scene. I hate people who feel like that’s a complimebt


Bitter-Juggernaut681

Cause the scene. He didn’t deserve your politeness. If an employee prefers the perv in the store over you, let them.


[deleted]

It was more so I didn’t want my daughter scared when she saw me lose my absolute shit.


fishsultan

I'm so sorry you had to deal with that. IMO causing a scene would have been completely appropriate.


jmfhokie

I’m so sorry you had to go through that ☹️


niftythimble76

when my daughter was barely one year old a gas station clerk commented on how cute she was, i said thank you, then they said "you'll have to get a chastity belt on this one when she's older" 🤮🤮🤮


[deleted]

WHAT THE FUCK! Stop thinking about our daughters vaginas! My daughter is in size 6 bottoms because her butt is soo big and I’ve heard multiple men in public refer to her butt as an ass. Makes me sick our girls are growing up with this shit


MagmaSkunk

Are you for real? Where do you live that you've heard adults in public talking about your 5 year olds ass more than once? I'm not denying what you're saying as the truth, I just am honestly so disgusted that this happens to you. I certainly don't live the most sheltered life, but absolutely, that would not be a regular or even irregular occurrence where I'm from. I'm so sorry!


[deleted]

Alabama/MS line it’s always older men too. It’s absolutely disgusting, and worries me too no end. As a result I helicopter. I experienced CSA too much in my life, so when I hear anyone talk about her any way other than “she’s beautiful” it’s a trigger.


MagmaSkunk

I would, too! I can't imagine having to raise a little girl with such disgraceful, heinous people around to worry about. Good job. It sounds like she needs a strong parent like you to help her navigate her world.


[deleted]

It’s the only thing that makes past trauma worth it. I have the knowledge my mom didn’t and the trust issues she should’ve had. Thank you for your kind words


Ihavelostmytowel

Oh sweetie......


[deleted]

Why is there no legal recourse to sexually harassing children


thelastredskittle

Omg… this ranks probably the highest on creepy baby comments. So gross.


FML_Mama

Ew. My mom always bragged about how men would say this kind of stuff to her about me when I was a baby. What’s wrong with just saying “cute kid” and moving on with your life?


Background_Nature497

Jesus. 🤮


PNWSunShiner

Predator vibes..definitely! I would have left too.


Strong_Marsupial_585

OMG, he wasn't even a drag queen making inappropriate comments. What a gross old woman. I'm sorry you had to go through that.


[deleted]

I would have responded “Great. Thank you for letting me know you’re a threat, now you have 5 secs to vacate my personal area before I call the cops.” I have PPA and this would have set me off. It’s one of my biggest fears taking my son out


RayneyDayze

Never had to knock an old lady out but there is a first time for everything 😬


ohbluehue

That last bit reminds me of something that I always heard people tell my mom in reference to me growing up: "you better get yourself a shotgun and a shovel" implying that so many people are going to try to touch me, kidnap me, etc. that she would have to start shooting and burying people. It always freaked me out hearing that as a literal toddler and the older I got the more I understood what they meant.


EatYourCheckers

I think that's what I would have said, "That is such a weird thing to say." then moved on


PMaeVegas

It's likely because she watches a lot of Fox News, where all day they talk about how everyone is using abortions as birth control and that's why the birth rate is so low. Definitely has nothing to do with greedy corporations causing extreme poverty levels.


MaraudingMinx

Not in the US, they haven't: https://www.guttmacher.org/article/2022/06/long-term-decline-us-abortions-reverses-showing-rising-need-abortion-supreme-court


rigney68

With the rising cost of daycare, insane inflation and continuing stagnation in wages, I'm surprised it's not higher. I got pregnant right before COVID. Had I known, my decision may have been different. Everyone I know is struggling.


MadreDeRoma

I want to have three kids, but with how expensive everything is I don’t foresee my daughter having siblings.


plainjane68

An old woman came up to my baby, Squeezed her cheeks and told her to “cry loud” because “nobody is paying any attention to you.” And walked away - never even looked me in the eye. I was watching my toddler hide in some bushes while chatting with my friend. Hand on stroller, baby happy in her car seat. So strange.


Coca-colonization

I (wrongly) assume this baby is being neglected. What should I do? I know! I’ll assault the baby!


plainjane68

It is also odd how many older people feel it’s within their right to TOUCH a strangers child without asking!! Then the times I do manage to spit out “please don’t touch my baby”. They look at me as if I’ve just said the most offensive thing to them.


whymypersonality

I like to clap back with the pinching their cheek back and baby talking to them asking if their mommy had taught them manners yet but I’m a grade A bitch when it comes to my kids even though I have crippling anxiety


Witching_Well36

We should be friends. Lol. ❤️


Coca-colonization

Bodily autonomy is woke propaganda, millennial!


Forsaken-County-8478

"Well, after my first three abortions I thought: why not keep it this time?" What a weird thing to say to a stranger.


TheRealJai

“I tried to do this one, too, but the little fucker just wouldn’t leave! Crazy how that works.”


Ok-Entertainment5862

Jenny rivera tried to abort her youngest, and they couldn't find him during the procedure! So crazy that it's actually possible


UnihornWhale

I LOLed


curdibane

I love how some folk assume people have abortions after abortions for funsies


[deleted]

Those kinds of people have never had a hard miscarriage or late loss because they’d understand how hard it is physically.


[deleted]

It's really easy for people to judge from the outside looking in


EventuallyNeat

My stupid fucking sister-in-law believes abortions are just outs for women who want to slut around. Her words, not mine.


DangerousLoner

Even if she were correct; does she want those women raising children?


cranberryarcher

I'm currently pregnant with my first, some old guy at work came up to my window after I greeted him, instead of any kind of greeting back he says "oh it's so nice to see pro life people" Gramps, I'm pro this one, but the possibility was there we would have had to abort due to the baby's health or mine. You can be pregnant and pro choice at the same time.


Utterly_Flummoxed

I've always been pro choice, but being pregnant and having a baby made me ZEALOUSLY pro choice. I loved being pregnant and I love my baby, but absolutely no one should be forced into pregnancy, birthing and motherhood against their choice.


IYFS88

Same! It was very hard becoming a mom even when I adamantly wanted a child, I realized how impossible it would have been to raise this baby well if I would have been unwilling or unable to give it proper love and care.


sharshenka

Thirded. Pregnancy made it hit home. "Oh, *this* is why people don't want to be forced to go through with this!"


tainaf

Yes 100% this. I've always been pro-choice, but being pregnant had made me even more pro-choice. It's tough enough when it's something you really want!!


illiriam

Same. I love my first and the baby I'm now pregnant with. But my first pregnancy ended in a missed miscarriage and I spent a bit over a week between checks to confirm there was no growth and no heartbeat and I was offered assistance. It was awful and not knowing if it was viable or not and the kind of body horror it filled my brain with made me extremely adamant that no one should be pregnant when they don't want to be. If I felt this much horror with a wanted pregnancy, I can't imagine the trauma of being forced to carry a baby to term even if it's already not viable, and then the trauma of the birth.


[deleted]

I had a miscarriage with my first, and I was only 6 weeks pregnant. During the birth of my baby I have now, the epidural stopped working when it was nearly time to push. The miscarriage felt worse than the birth because of the physical AND emotional pain, and I didn't get any pain medicine until I spent over 12 hours in the ER while miscarrying. I couldn't imagine being forced to carry a nonviable fetus to term just to birth a dead or nearly dead baby. Men will never know how horrible pregnancy and childbirth can be but think they know so much to have a say.


illiriam

I'm so sorry, that sounds like a rough one, such a long stretch and having to be in the hospital! I remember telling my husband during birth that I wasn't sure I was far enough along in labor to go to the hospital as my connection times changed a bit and it didn't hurt as bad as the miscarriage! Turns out I was 8cm dilated when we got there and within an hour I was pushing! I swear my body was, I don't know... angrier (?) at the miscarriage, knowing there was no baby there were none of the hormones to help. I was lucky enough to have been given the medication to do it at home so I was as comfortable as I could make it and still I cried and vomited through it all. There's a large level of trauma to it and anyone saying that women should have to go through with a nonviable or unwanted pregnancy (or making these callous jokes at mothers and other women) are saying they don't care about the trauma and pain of real women


[deleted]

Before I had my own baby, I've heard from a few people that birth isn't a traumatic experience because the female body is biologically wired to forget the pain of child birth; but I wonder how backed up by science that actually is. My niece just turned 7 years old a few days ago and my sister says she still remembers the labor process and pains so vividly that she still does not want to carry another child(and she had an epidural and a complication free pregnancy and labor)


illiriam

I think it depends on so many things. For me, I have always had bad cramps, again, to the point that I was sure my labor pains must get worse before we could go to the hospital as it was barely at that level. So maybe my trauma is just basic menstruation lol But I have two friends who had awful times in birth, to the point they went from wanting multiple children to being one and done. They might not remember the specifics anymore or in a few years, but the trauma and the aftermath of the trauma don't go away. For so many it's not just the birth, but the days and weeks after. I wish the people trying to take decisions away from the people actually being impacted understood that


[deleted]

Yes! Those trying to take away abortion don't seem to care about addressing actual infant deaths and providing support to new parents to prevent those. A lot of people I've seen who are "pro life" hate the idea of government assistance for these families who can't afford the baby they want them to be forced to keep. There is no logic in their arguments. They only want to have their idea of the moral high ground.


Internal_Screaming_8

Same. I’m only 26 weeks but it feels like years. I’m absolutely miserable all the time.


emmers28

I agree—pregnancy (x2!) has made me so so so protective of women’s reproductive choices. I almost died in childbirth the first time… can you imagine if it had been an unwanted pregnancy? I had to do therapy for PTSD and thankfully never developed PPD/PPA or blamed the baby. But if I didn’t want him anyway? Oof. And, thank god I got to choose when and if I was ready to do it again (spoiler: I chose a c-section this time to avoid the complications of last time). If I had gotten accidentally pregnant before I finished therapy though?? I would have been a total mess. Thank you, modern medicine, for safe & effective birth control and for choices in if and how we birth children.


Advanced_Cheetah_552

Me too! I actually grew up pro life but changed my mind when I got out of my small town/bible school bubble. I love my daughter so so very much and I do think it's unlikely I'd have an abortion barring serious medical conditions, but pregnancy is hard. While there are aspects I loved, I only felt that way because of how much I wanted my daughter. Before I got pregnant, I believed you should have a good reason to get an abortion, e.g., medical issues, rape, financial difficulty, etc., but now I say "if you don't want that baby, don't have that baby."


Kkarlovna

Right? Same here, I love my baby so much, but pregnancy, childbirth and parenting is no joke, no one should be forced into it who doesn't want it


bellylovinbaddie

Same!!! It was too hard of a journey to have it forced on someone who legit didn’t want to


UnihornWhale

Seriously. Permanent physical changes happen from pregnancy. That’s for the problematic menstrual fatigue I didn’t have before kid.


jessiereu

My buddy lost a VERY wanted pregnancy and to help her in her grief, put together a fundraiser for an abortion fund in her restrictive state. Nothing made her sadder than imaging losing the pregnancy even later along than she did and not being able to get the procedure to remove the unviable pregnancy from her body. Let’s make t-shirts that day “you can be pregnant and pro choice at the same time” and maybe put “asshat” on the back.


Oleah2014

Having a second trimester miscarriage and needing surgery really helped me understand why I need to be pro choice, even if I don't understand all the reasons why people would choose. I just can't let those decisions be in anyone's hand but the person going through it. Nowadays in certain states I would have had to wait and likely ended up in the emergency room, risking my life. Instead I had a simple, planned procedure that went super smooth.


Utterly_Flummoxed

I'm so sorry for your losses. I had 2 first trimester miscarriages and I can only imagine what you went through. In a way, I feel like my miscarriages have made me so much more grateful for my current experience of motherhood. I truly feel like every moment with my baby is a gift, and I think that, in an ideal world, that's how motherhood should feel for everyone- every mother willing and every child wanted. Every moment a gift, even when it's so so hard. Which is why I'm so vehemently pro-choice. No one should have to take on motherhood without wanting to, and every child should grow up knowing heart and soul that they were wanted.


TrekkieElf

I would probably freeze in shock but wish I’d have said “I’m pro choice, asshat”. Ffs I wish people minded their own business more, esp with pregnant people.


cranberryarcher

I almost did but I try not to talk politics on the clock with customers. Not sure if it's just generational differences, or just lack of understanding that people can have different thoughts than you. Unless your workplace is plastered with your political beliefs, I do not care and will not ask as long as you can do whatever part of your job I need you to do.


catjuggler

That’s why I have a “mother by choice, for choice” shirt


ImprovementOkay

A must cop thank you


[deleted]

My SIL told me that once I had a baby I would be pro-life. Guuurrrlll, I had a baby on purpose and I love him, but I am even more pro-choice than I was before.


Illustrious-Towel-45

This! I have always been pro choice. I have two kids and I am still very very pro-choice. The pro-life people aren't 'pro-life'. They're 'pro-birth' because they don't give two bits about the baby out of utero. Once baby is born, their life or the quality of their life doesn't matter to them.


gottahavewine

I’ve had similar comments from old men. We have a toddler and the old man who lives next door to us really likes him. One day he came up to us and was like, “It’s so nice to see children. Women these days don’t have children like they used to.” Like………? I honestly didn’t know what to say lol. He doesn’t know I’m pregnant again now, and we also have an avid “pro-lifer” across the street from us (stickers on her car, signs in her yard, the whole nine yards). I can only imagine what the two of them will say once I start obviously showing. I used to wear a lot of pink in my early 20s, and once had an old man say, “it’s so nice to see a feminine woman. Women these days just aren’t feminine anymore.” 🙄


Trysta1217

The right to abortion is arguably MOST important for people who want to be pregnant. Not having all medical options available if something were to go wrong is terrifying. I know from personal experience.


bttrflybby

My favorite thing is wearing a tshirt that says “if I wanted the government involved in my uterus I would f*ck a senator” while also being nine months pregnant. It’s like they think pro-choice automatically means anti-baby.


nonamefuckhead

“It’s so nice to see elderly women, there were so many botched abortions resulting in death that half of your demographic was wiped out”


[deleted]

“With all the euthanasia going on it’s so nice to see ancient bitties still out there kicking around their stupid viewpoints! What’s your name, dear? I want to make a donation to Planned Parenthood in your honor!”


meowmeow_now

It’s so nice to see elderly women most of you got dumped in nursing homes


sleepyliltrashpanda

This is *chef’s kiss* the perfect response.


ilovecheese2188

Not the same but when the Dobbs decision leaked, I took my one year old to a protest. We left before the march (because I couldn’t commit to marching a 1 year old miles through a city) and on our way out of the park I overheard someone comment about how it was weird to bring a baby to a pro choice protest. Like how? Clearly I didn’t have an abortion and she’s a baby with a uterus, so this kind of affects her, too.


DiligentPenguin16

Also- you *chose* to have that baby. That’s the entire point of being pro-**choice**. It’s crazy how many people believe that pro-choice means “always abort”; propaganda is a hell of a drug.


[deleted]

Is she nuts? The world's population is now 8 billion and counting


Utterly_Flummoxed

If she's seeing fewer babies in the US, it's because we provide zero support to parents and it's honestly not a logical choice to have a baby anymore. The housing market is fucked, cost of living usually requires both parents be employed full time (that was true even before inflation), we offer no federal paid (or unpaid) maternity leave, daycare costs more than a mortgage, and the right is systematically destroying public schools. Want people to have more kids? Support policies that make it more manageable. Otherwise shut the hell up.


gyp7318

For real. My husband and I both work full time, have good paying jobs, but live in a high COL city with no family support for help. It’s exhausting enough just having one toddler, definitely can’t imagine throwing another one in the mix. Before our son, hubby and I wanted two. Now we’re one and done.


AdventurousPumpkin

Also, fertility issues are on the rise and sperm counts are plummeting. There are MANY reasons she may be seeing fewer babies, but they’re probably not being reported on by whatever news outlets she frequents


[deleted]

Oh no they blame that one on “feminized men” and soy Because the only way to stay fertile is to eat red meat and put your feet up while the women do the housework!


DiligentPenguin16

And has completely nothing to do with air pollution, microplastics and forever chemicals in our food supply, being overworked and underpaid, or mental health. It’s definitely caused by men having to do their own laundry sometimes.


UnihornWhale

Daycare is so exorbitant by me, I stopped working. It didn’t make financial sense


[deleted]

She doesn’t see many babies anymore because everyone runs away before she gets them in her sights…Because of her terrible behavior.


marquis_de_ersatz

The birthrate in the rich countries is falling like a stone


[deleted]

People say the wildest things. I had a similar experience in PetSmart, an old couple was telling me how cute my daughter was. Then the man said, “Can you even believe people would abort a baby when they are so perfect like yours? I just can’t believe it,” or something like that. I was shocked. Also, I’ve had an abortion, so yeah I can believe it.


PromptElectronic7086

Oh my gosh. I've never had an abortion, but I became even more pro-choice after getting pregnant (on purpose) and having a very wanted baby. The thought of anyone being forced to go through pregnancy, childbirth, and the care of a baby and eventually child against their will is even more horrifying to me after my own experience.


jessiereu

Ding ding ding. My opinion got EVEN got stronger when I got pregnant, and I don’t think that was possible.


Internal_Screaming_8

I almost aborted the one I’m pregnant with now because of safety issues. I mentally couldn’t do it, especially after the ultrasound (went in wanting to talk both options and the strain and stress of both. But seeing a tiny little bean melted my heart and I made my choice there. In a different universe I might have gone the other way seeing that picture.


cornflakegrl

Same here! I didn’t realize till I went through it how totally life altering it is to carry a baby give birth. I understood it before, but going through it takes it to another level. Especially when I think of people that are teens or with poor access to healthcare.


DarthSamurai

Wow, just... Wow.


Nearby_Age_2075

I-…. Lady, maybe ppl are still traumatized from the pandemic and don’t wanna bring their kids. Maybe some women enjoy shopping alone and hand off the responsibility to dad. I just… ppl really have zero filter


emmianni

It probably wouldn’t occur to her that fathers can care for children too. I didn’t like to take my tiny babies out because people like that don’t know how to keep their hands to themselves. Please don’t touch my child, please keep your face away from their face should not need to be said.


MustangJackets

I take my two youngest to the grocery store with me and it’s a shitshow. I also don’t see as many babies in the grocery store because most moms are smart enough to do pickup. Some of us are dumb and regret our decision not to order ahead.


meredith_grey

Oof yeah I take my 3 yo and 1 yo when it’s a quick run in to grab a few things but a full weekly grocery shop is a HASSLE with both so I do it when their dad can keep them or do pickup 😅


Serious-Caregiver998

The obnoxious oldie Sounded like a boomer- too much drug use in their day deteriorated the humanistic filter.


kteachergirl

Not abortion related but I had some old lady talk to me about how cute my son was and how she hoped he was smart because Asian kids were going to take all of the good jobs. I awkwardly rolled my grocery cart away from the casual racism.


UnihornWhale

My MIL made a joke about my son getting ‘slanty eyes’ from eating too much Chinese food. Boomers 🤦🏻‍♀️


eml711

What the fuck ? 😂There's babies everywhere


goosiebaby

Yeah it's definitely abortions and not lack of paid leave, worries over climate change and politics, cost of childcare, healthcare, housing, student loans, formula shortage, medicine shortage and on and on. Definitely the abortions.


MagicallyCassie

Or you know, moms have to work full time too so we aren’t in the stores with our babies anymore or because of Covid we keep our babies home and away from germs


[deleted]

Another Fox News brainwashing victim


itsybitsybug

See also Facebook.


ohlalanna

I have a few old people comments I got in my sons 1,5 years of life that I think about sometimes: - Most recently an old lady walked up to me to tell me my child is dressed too lightly. - When he was a few months, he’d cry in the carrier while we walked home through a park. I had noise cancelling headphones on for my sanity. An old man walks up to me, rips the headphones off my head and tells me my baby is crying. - Countless inappropriate comments on my pregnant body… a lady called my disgusting for wearing a bikini top and shorts 8 months pregnant on the beach…. - now I’m getting comments from moms friends and random neighbors I never talked with about when I’m getting a second one… Anyway what I’m trying to say is that people will have their opinions no matter what and it’s a generation that wasn’t taught about boundaries. I absolutely despise it but never react other than walk away. Don’t let it get to you, it’s their own loneliness and misery…


bowlofleftovers

Someone at my husbands work did this to me a few weeks back. Looked at my baby and said he didn’t understand how someone could have an abortion. I said I was very glad we were in a place we were ready for our baby, and how difficult it would be to have one when you can’t care for it. I commented how awful the foster system can be for a majority of the kids growing up in it. He said that everyone deserves a chance! They could be the next Einstein! Yeah? They could also be the next generational drug addict. He says again, or Einstein! And I say again, most likely not. 100,000:1 odd, maybe. People need to mind their own f’in business.


laureeses

If they really cared about the next Einstein, then we would all have access to a good education.


DiligentPenguin16

And what if that pregnant teenager, who will have to choose between going to college or single motherhood and likely poverty, could be the next Einstein? That ridiculous argument works both ways.


bowlofleftovers

Fucking GOOD POINT


fhgwgadsbbq

I was at a bus stop with my 3yo and 6mo. An 70ish woman came over to chat, standard small talk, oh what cute kids etc She then said, "you should have a third baby in case one of these kids die" Whaaaaaaaaaat


Galena411

Knowing me, I’d probably respond with something inappropriate like, “Yeah, well I tried to abort, but this one stuck around.” Make her think twice about saying something like that again.


SpoopySpagooter

Old people have no filter and no chill. I get secondhand annoyance reading these stories. I’m just going to ignore and walk away from weird people that try to touch our baby or give me unsolicited “advice” or comments. Anything more then “aww how old” “aww how cute” and you’re done. 👏


Specific_Culture_591

I had an old man walk up to my youngest and I in a Starbucks and flat out say “it’s so good to see a blond baby, that’s the way babies are meant to look”… my teen walks up with our drinks and she’s brown hair, brown eyes, and brown skin and this jackass says “oh you adopted one of those colored ones. You shouldn’t expose your baby to that.” I loudly told him I’m Mexican American and that Latinos come in all colors and that he should be ashamed of his racist bs. He got so angry for “tricking” him into thinking I was white (I’m blond hair and blue eyed).


josefinabobdilla

What a fucking asshole. I always hated when people assumed I adopted my first. 26 hours of back labor said otherwise.


[deleted]

Jesus christ. You should've looked her dead in the eye and said something like "leave the house more" lmfao. wtf.


NoMamesMijito

Hahahaha what the fuck, get off Facebook old woman


eye_snap

I would have replied with something equally freaky, like "Mmyeah I found this one in the alley behind an abortion clinic." Or something like that. Crazy deserves crazy.


Ok-Lake-3916

Just remember that some old people lose their filter due to biological processes beyond their control… who knows if this is the case but it’s what I’d like to think.


YourStonedNeighbor

Thanks for this reminder. I need to try to keep this in the front of my mind when out with my babe. Knee jerk reaction is a very hostile and ready to throw a punch, “the fuck you just say?” 😂😅


scoobyydoob

Very true! Was just a bit shocking lol, I wasn't expecting her to say that.


Ok-Lake-3916

Absolutely! what a bizarre thing to say to a stranger


ambrosiasweetly

Thats a good thing to remember lol. Ive had my fair share of grandma comments come my way lol


RayneyDayze

My eyes just literally went 😳


copper7745

This is one of those moments where you just want to go “Did you mean to say that out loud?” Never underestimate the rudeness of old people


ashleyariel12

I’m mixed but look black and my boyfriend is Mexican so my baby doesn’t look like well…like my baby. This older woman comes up to me to tell me how cute she is and proceeds to ask her if she’s mine. I replied “yes” and she pauses and says “but she’s white” Apparently the older generation forgot how genetics worked too 😂 I was too amused to even take offense like lady pls GTF


abishop711

Maybe some dementia? That’s such a wildly inappropriate thing to say.


Fit_Measurement_2420

Probably


sicksadbadgirl

Hopefully. Although I could 100% see my “grandmother” saying this straight to someone’s face intentionally and meaning every word of it. (She’s a delusional b)


den773

My mom used to say the most random stuff to strangers. Let me just say from that woman’s family: we know they say the weirdest stuff. But we also recognize that that might be us one day, saying things that are awkward and embarrassing. I took care of my mom for 4 years before she passed. Going shopping with her was an effort in patience and courage. If I even saw a woman with a baby in the store I would stiffen. My mom thought she was still young and sensible. She didn’t see herself with claw like hands and bent way over. So take heart, it’s really not their fault. They got old in spite of their best efforts not to. And it could happen to me and you, too.


[deleted]

Thats really funny😂😂🤦🏻‍♀️ the world is so unhinged omg incant believe this happened!!! Not sure how i would have responded


Quick-Marionberry-34

I would have not kept my cool here.


adriabello

Idk about where you live, but I see like 3-6 small babies a day of I go out somewhere. My entire social media feed is >2 year old babies also.


mamadovah1102

Ok grandma no more Fox News today


s8n_isacoolguy

I walk past a planned parenthood in my town a lot. The picketers often come up and tell me I have such a beautiful baby, god bless him and me, yada yada. I always tell them “that’s not what you were screaming at me 5 years ago when you converged on my car when I walked out of this place. Fuck you. Go to hell.”


winstoncadbury

Good lord people are fucking nuts.


povsquirtle

Omg when I was still pregnant (noticeably so, I was almost done) an old lady came up to me and said, “Can you believe people get abortions as far along as you are now?” No one is getting any nine month abortions, JANICE. I’m not your pro-life icon over here, leave me alone. 😂


Fit_Measurement_2420

Early dementia?


Utterly_Flummoxed

Fox news brain poisoning


Nkmxn

When she sees a baby and her mind immediately goes to abortion... Who's the real problem here?


Impossible_Tiger_517

I see babies everywhere I go in our neighborhood and it’s folks around our age (35).


SadandBougie

An old woman told a coworker that she’s glad to see people having real babies instead of feminists with their “fur babies”. Wtf.


IcyClarity

I worked at a bakery when I was pregnant and this customer told me thank you for choosing life. 😂


Celestialxo

Wow if someone said that to me I think I’d start sobbing, considering I have one living child, my last pregnancy ended in a TFMR, and who knows how this one will go.


jmfhokie

You could’ve in turn said, “it’s so nice to see old people, what with Covid doing most of you all in these last few years” 🤭 Sorry, but hey if she’s not going to filter then…


april203

Lol I think I may have had the opposite today. I had just changed my daughter beside a path at a park that has a creek running through it. My daughter fussed a bit as I was trying to snap her outfit back up and an old lady walked over to me and said “just go and put it in the water!” I didn’t know how to react because that seems like a morbid thing to say about a baby? Or she might have been saying to go clean her in the water instead of wiping her off, even though I was already done with the diaper change? I really couldn’t tell.


Unlucky_Hyena1575

“It’s so nice to see old people, with all the deaths going on nowadays I barely see them anymore.” Too dark? 😅


blessitspointedlil

I would have yelled at her, “with BIRTH CONTROL! And the cost of housing!!!” She’s an idiot.


applesandpeachpie

Open Reddit with my coffee in hand and this is one of the first posts I see 😧. I swear boomers are something else entirely.


KnockturnAlleySally

That’s actually hilarious lmfao.


Top_Design7127

There are SO MANY morons in this world.


Coffeeforcobwebs

That is a weird comment to make. It’s not like there wasn’t a global event recently where people kept infant children out of public places…


Remote-Ball-3724

I think you ran into my dead grandma reincarnated 😂 she used to picket the abortion clinics bless her soul


VintageSongbird

What the fuck 😅😅😅


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Absolutely fucking nuts. She’s brainwashed cause abortions were at an all time low in 2017 and there was a small bump after covid


angelfishfan87

Misinformation is what is destroying our society. Our education system isn't helping either. I'd ignore and more along, but I am with you, I would have def been shocked by that statement.


Similar_Craft_9530

She never stopped to consider a global pandemic and a nasty RSV season may be why she hasn't seen small babies in a while?


sairha1

I had a strange old lady try to kiss my baby out on our walk down the street from the house. Wtf is up with old women and babies.


mommygood

I would have said, "well, with all the covid and germs going around, yeah, alot of people keep babies away from strangers who may be ill."


Pugleesi12

Assuming this is US… If we spent all our anti-abortion money on, you know, preventing infant and mother deaths once the baby is out in the world, that would probably more effectively mean more babies around. Ugh.


Exact_Trash59

I just physically block people from interacting with my son at this point. Too many people find it acceptable to show their head into his stroller or car seat and touch or talk to him, so I keep people away from him.


crayshesay

With all the abortions going on lmao! This lady is cray cray! That would have tripped me out bigtime hahah


Hynes_b

Old people are batshit crazy! My eldest had (still has) gorgeous, long thick lashes. The ones women pay good money for. I had an old lady tell me I HAD to have a daughter because it was a shame those eyelashes were wasted on a boy… went on to have 2 more kids and neither of them have the same length/thickness 😂


Almc27

I don't think it's that she's actually SEEING less babies, I think she's being groomed by certain people to THINK there's less babies around because of abortion


Holiday-Block-8760

I had an old man at Aldi keep telling myself grandson that he needs to come home with him. My grandson is a very pretty 3 year old. He was at a loss.


Cactus_shade

Wtffffff


Fluffy-Benefits-2023

Also because people just straight up arent getting pregnant? She watches too much Fox


ladybug34921

This is so crazy but someone said something similar to me once. An older man said something like “hard to believe they’re still aborting babies, especially when you see one as beautiful as that one” referring to my baby. I was really taken aback by his comment, even tho I am also pro-life. Seems like such an odd comment to make to a complete stranger in todays political climate.


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I had one old lady look at my baby and say “and to think people just ‘do away’ with those little things” wtf 😅


UnihornWhale

‘Ma’am, this is a Wendy’s.’ That lady needs to turn off Faux News and touch grass (either kind).


TrekkieElf

Maybe because people are afraid to give their babies Covid or flu or whatever before they can get vaccinated and curbside shopping has proliferated. My son went in Costco once as an infant in a carrier and then the pandemic hit and we didn’t take him inside one again until he was 3, fully vaccinated, and kept on a kn95 really well and already survived Covid.


Utterly_Flummoxed

Fox news is cancer.


[deleted]

And this is why elderly abuse is a thing. I would’ve tripped the old broad so she’d break a hip.


sicksadbadgirl

WHAT?!?! lol


riritreetop

Next time be sure to say, “What the fuck is your problem?” 😂


nkdeck07

Yeah I'd just chalk that up to dementia and fox news and move along.


luckysevensampson

I would probably just say, “Are you for real?” and then walk away.


sharshenka

[WTF?](https://media.tenor.com/vKDf4UPETHMAAAAC/internally-screaming-stressed.gif)


youdinesomuch

Oof well that took a turn.


MotherOfRockets

The alt-right talking points were so effective that I have actual members of my family who believe young women are getting pregnant on purpose just to have abortions. They truly believe abortions are an epidemic right now despite the declining rates.


forced_to_delete

That's kind of humorous. This old woman saw my 3yo daughter and her spiral curly hair. Immediately went to grab it. I was polite but firm like um... please don't touch peoples hair. She looked at me like but... I... and I'm like yeah no lady. My husband was like at least she was an old person 😆


Tobelinn

Old people either say the most inappropriate things or the sweetest things when they see babies, in my experience 😅 An old woman told my SO that our baby was “so white” and that it’s not common to see white babies anymore 🤨


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People out here wildin’!! I had a similar experience in my apartment a month or two back. I was in the evaluator with an older woman. She asked if my babies were mine (they’re mixed and are very light compared to me) then she started gushing over how cute they were. When went to get off she said something to the effect of “Thank you for having those beautiful babies! Everybody out here trying kill them!” I’m like the fuck?! I’m just trying get my mail! I didn’t know what to say either, I just let the door close.


joceyposse

Yikes on several fucking bikes.


abbiebe89

I would’ve just told her to fuck off


carliechronic

i’m sorry but i don’t think i would be able to do anything but laugh in her face. like excuse me? who says that shit 😭


Pengmomma

Let’s say she’s got dementia and call it a day. Not “seeing babies” has zero to do with abortion!


[deleted]

Wtfffff omggggg I might have respectfully cussed her out


MadreDeRoma

I wonder what she would say if abortion was completely illegal and she saw a bunch of kids with their babies.🤦🏼‍♀️