![]() ![]() “She made me feel like not wanting kids was a character flaw on my part.” “It was the way this woman cemented her bangs to her forehead while she coolly tossed off a judgment about my person that made me realize that whether she was even aware of it or not, somewhere in her core she just assumed that everyone wants to have children, and to not want children indicates some sort of factory malfunction,” Kirkman writes in her new book I Can Barely Take Care of Myself. No, Kirkman told her, we’re childfree by choice. ![]() While casually fixing her hair in the mirror the woman asked Kirkman, “But you want kids someday, right?” We can’t have a third person running around who is more helpless than the two of us.” It goes: “My husband and I don’t want kids. She said she loved a joke Kirkman had just told. Jen Kirkman was washing her hands in the women’s bathroom at a comedy club in Addison, Texas when an audience member walked out of the stall. ![]()
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