Yes! People who say "speaking as a mother"
should automatically be ignored, along with people who say "if you had children you'd understand" who should automatically be killed.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Tue 16 Sep 2008, 14:47, 2 replies)

I have had "if you had children..." said to me.
at the time I had stopped 2 children from pushing each other into a canal while their disinterested mother sat on a bench smoking. I asked her why she hadn't stopped them.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 16 Sep 2008, 14:56, closed)

What's even better
is when you get to dress down an adult for letting their kids act like twats in public. They get offended and say "If you had kids-" at which point I respond with "I do have kids, three of them in fact, and I never would have permitted them to behave like this- but then, I was raised with some manners."

The effect is that of hitting them across the face with a dead mackerel. The expression is priceless.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Tue 16 Sep 2008, 15:05, closed)

I might just say that next time.
It would make me a dirty stinking liar, but what the hell.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 16 Sep 2008, 15:12, closed)

In defense of that
I really do think it needs to be said that having kids does change you on some fundamental level. I don't say that in a self-righteous condescending way, but as an observation on myself and others I've known. Somehow your world-view shifts in subtle ways when you've had kids. I don't know that I can explain it.

On the other hand, people who use that as a way to appear superior to people who haven't had kids do deserve to be shot, and to have their children referred to as "fuck trophies".
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Tue 16 Sep 2008, 14:57, closed)

of course having kids changes you
but indeed, as you say, what it doesn't do is bless you with some uniquely insightful and superior perspective on the world. And I will continue to point that out to the sanctimonious fuckers who think it does.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Tue 16 Sep 2008, 15:00, closed)