The phrase "we're trying for a baby" communicates the intent to start a family without eliciting unwanted images of raw dog cream pies. That is why we use it. If you are having these thoughts about your coworkers from this phrase, I submit that you are the problem.
this post was submitted on 18 Jun 2025
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Yeah... Personally, I'd rather hear that a couple is trying for a baby over the bigoted shit I usually hear at work.
"I'm going to the bathroom" is sexually graphic, and disgusting.
It means ejecting urine and or feces from the body and it finishes in the toilet.
It should not be tolerated at the workplace. I'm forced to listen to this rhetoric because my shift isn't done yet, and I can't leave without getting fired. I'm forced into a sexual discussion without consent, and it's so graphically disgusting that I feel nauseous.
If I were to tell you that I have 3 kids, would you also be disgusted that I've had vaginal sex at least 3 times? Or is that somehow different?
Unpopular opinion for sure, but one built on immaturity and inability to reason as an adult.
If you were in an office and someone says that they are dropping loads in their wife, yea, that's fucked up and significantly different from saying that they're trying to have a child.
Just wait until they realize their parents had sex, maybe even more than once!
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Even the Victorian era thinks you might be a prude.
This, folks, is a perfect example of projection. OP is a gay man and has worried that others judge him for his preference, so he judges others for the same thing.
The healthy thing of course would be to learn to let it roll off his back, and in calming that, he would calm his own worry about others judging him.
OP does not know what "sexually graphic" means.
Well technically he is projecting sexually graphic here for us.
I'm so sorry to be the one to tell you this, but people are having sex all the time. I know it may be a shock, but the truth is stranger than fiction! In fact, and this is truly reprehensible, even animals are doing it. But no one should be allowed to reference it and we should all consider it gross. That makes sense.
This is a truly US level of being uncomfortable with the basic fact of life.
That strong anti natalist sentiment is palpable
Had a colleague who said that he's disgusted when another colleague talks about his boyfriend. He advocated it basically because he was imagining anal sex between them all the time.
Three years later, these colleagues are boyfriends 💞💞💞