"The culture rather encourages such statements, welcoming them as rebellion against the impositions of normative traditions. Patriarchy tells women they must adore infants, but today’s enlightened age allows us to throw off our shackles and proclaim otherwise. Commercialised heteronormativity once taught us that everyone dreams of 2.3 kids and a house, but now we understand that happy families come in all patterns and sizes, including none at all. Thus we embrace ideas that would otherwise offend."