childfree vs dogfree...let them fight 
neoliberal
Margaret Thatcher: "there is no such thing as society, there are only individuals and families"
/r/DogFree:
"It's so wholesome to see a family without a pet dog...The whole family is talking with each other and, well, being a family.
The ideal family doesn't need a dog. A dog is a living parasite of a burden.
I notice family units are usually stronger when they don't have a dog.
That’s what it looks like at my house. Peace, quiet, chatting with each other. We can come and go in and out of the house without a "shadow"
Without a shadow? new type of vampire ghoul just dropped
I can understand not liking dogs or children, but the hatred of them as a personality traits just seems psychopathic. I recently read a BBC article about Americans paying Indonesians to torture and kill monkeys and record it, and the language they use is very similar to these child/dog free comments
I recently read a BBC article about Americans paying Indonesians to torture and kill monkeys and record it, and the language they use is very similar to these child/dog free comments
Americans paying Indonesians to torture and kill monkeys and record it,
what the fuck why would you do that
yeah I'm going to stop reading that it's too distressing. Everyone involved should be in prison if only because these people seem like they might be genuinely dangerous. Never trust anyone that tortures animals for fun
What the fuck happens to a person that they do this
I want to get a bumper sticker that says "Your child may be an honour student but my dog can suck his own dick while spinning in a circle"
Reddit is so weird that you have subs like "i dont want a dog, and everyone who has a dog is a liece of shit"
I met a guy who had rabbits and his rabbit containment box had the big hard grasses all over the floor and it was gross af because other things were all over the floor but the bunnies were cute.
Wait why didnt he just clean up after his rabbits, thats like letting your dogs shit on the floor
Why would it be?
I have a dislike of dogs driven by fear personally, and prefer to not be in the vicinity of the ones large enough to do serious harm if I got attacked. Thus, you have a bunch of people with even stronger fixations and a misanthropic view coming together and creating a subreddit or other community.
From this, say a strong fear of walking by fences where you know dogs are, charging at you from behind the fence and barking at loud volumes, you have a self-strengthening echo-chamber with some added reddit-brand smugness to it.
"I don't like/fear dogs/other phobia commonly faced in the wild" can for example turn to "I hate people who are likely to own a dog" or whatever. Or it could not and stay as pointless and bizarre posting like this.
I am very much not a dog person at all, possibly even anti-dog-ownership, but these people are nuts.
i would not want to live near these dogfree people. they sound like pet poisoners. i don't even have a dog. but they could probably pick up on the vibe where i don't hate mammals and poison me for being a weak, species-betrayer or some shit.
all of those people should be tagged and tracked, because dollars to donuts like 20% of them are coming soon to a tru crime documentary near you.
Of course reddit has a community where they make not having a dog a toxic personality trait
Turning a dog into a surrogate child is a form of depravity. I don't get it. I never will. Help me understand the appeal.
Gotta be honest here I agree with that. Pets are cool, but they're not furbabies or whatever.
I am expecting the comments on the dogfree subreddit to be terrible though
If I went to the park and saw a guy puckering and letting his dog lick his entire mouth, then I turn around and see a guy on the bench mumbling about how dogs are evil parasitic filth that deserve to be cleansed, I would assume they’re both disturbed, but I’ll also assume the guy on the bench has a basement that he doesn’t let anyone see.
Help me understand the appeal.
A child is much more expensive and requires a longer/more thorough commitment. There are people like poodle boomers who genuinely have empty nest syndrome, but like all the shit I do with my dog is just ironic. It's building a very dedicated inside joke for one that makes a dog the shelter system gave up on feel special. He's the affordable option for companionship and if he didn't have an overly-ornate subreddit then I'd just have a bunch of scattered phone pictures of him doing stupid things without any context.
Yeah personally I find dogs amusing I like their attitude and I like living with a creature that is easy to keep happy
People can get embarrassingly attached to their pets but we did literally breed them for centuries to fit as frictionlessly as possible into our social groups. They're basically made to please us like the kid from AI.
as a general rule people who use the word depravity are wrong and have weird ideas
if people care about an animal that is fine and good. Wholesome even
i get the vibe from /r/dogfree that it like started as a parody of /r/childfree, but then the posters started to take it seriously
It just keeps happening. Reddit needs a sitewide rule that sarcasm requires a content warning.
I mean, I can imagine how it happened. The forum morphed to suit a need. I'm a dog lover, but it's not that unusual for someone to hate dogs. They often don't understand boundaries, and they can be loud and smelly. But when you express it through the apocalyptic fury of the childfree identity, it becomes deranged and self-destructive.
Honestly, the dog my mother is torturing in life (to death) via neglect and laziness as it pisses all over the house constantly is basically responsible for making everyone else in the family miserable, so I'm pro these anti-dog people. People don't get pets in isolation, it's part of a social force that compels people to think their lives are missing having little animal underlings to lord over and molest.
Yeah but it's a weird one to post here in this context
i'm pretty scared of dogs and totally sympathize with hating the predominant culture around dogs, like how many dog owners will claim to be animal lovers but have outright hate or contempt towards other critters for the crime of not behaving like a dog, or not personally entertaining or interesting them.
channeling that into
posts abt how disgusting you find the animals and people instead of developing an actual critique of domestication is wack thothere's a lot of people who own pets who should not own pets
People are just obsessive and think ruminating on their dislike (or abject hatred) of dogs or kids or bad drivers or fat people or Russians or whatever will make the bad thoughts go away, but actually they're just picking at the scab. We are trained by media to behave this way as it drives engagement numbers on social media platforms and keeps us coming back for more.
I like dogs and think that a lot of people who own dogs probably shouldn't. Especially when people own the completely wrong kind of dog for their life/climate.
Basically no one should own a husky unless you have a dogsled team because the only way to get energy out of them in a comfortable environment for them is to have them pull something in the snow for a while.
A lot of people have dogs with way too much energy. Or social needs that aren't being met because the dog doesn't have that much time interacting with other dogs because dog park might be far away. I feel bad for all those lonely dogs spending hours a day on their own.
“Hmm, yeah, dogs can be annoying sometimes, and I’ve had plenty of run-ins with irresponsible dog owners, but it’s part of greater societal problems, like people are so alienated and lonely they can’t find meaningful companionship any other way. Maybe I’ll check out this subreddit.”
five seconds later:
Seems those types of subreddits just distill and mutate the sentiment to the worst takes.
