WOMBAT!

Dude, why can't I just not read the comments when a paper like the NYTimes has an article about infertility? Why? It's downright masochistic.

However, I must say one thing: I find the commenters highly inefficient. They always spout the same thing, only varying the depth of ignorance and acidity of the vitriol. So I'd like to make a modest proposal.

I call it WOMBAT!

Instead of posting, say, "When will these women [it's always the ladies at fault, apparently] stop being so selfish in their desire for a baby who looks just like them and stop overpopulating the world and start realizing that God/nature/Darwin/Karl Marx didn't mean for them to have children. They need to stop being such horrible useless excuses for human beings and go and adopt one of the gazillion homeless orphans lying around on every street corner just waiting to be taken in a family," they should just post one word and one only.

Wombat.

We'll know what they're all about, and they can spend the minutes they now use insulting and misunderestimating a fifth of humanity doing something more useful. Like bleaching their teeth or waxing their hamsters' toenails.