Valid question, terrible example. The joke's funny, and pretty tame.

A better example is how so many r/aww commenters would whinge when a human baby was posted, as if somehow only baby animals are cute.

Ok, probably going to get downvoted, but here we go. I HATE hate hate hate children and especially babies. They cause a visceral reaction in me and it’s not good.

Their awful high pitched squeals, their sticky filthy hands, their germ carrying drippy snotty faces, their awful baby talk that doesn’t make sense, their smell (barf), that awful cooing/laugh I could go on forever. Add in the terrifying idea of carrying one of those parasites in my for 9 months and then popping it out, while destroying my body? No fucking thank you.

Add in that if you say you’re childfree people ALWAYS try to convince you that you need one. “Oh when are you and husband having baybeeeeees?” Never. “What!?!?!? Why!?!?!? They are soooooooo pwecous”. “You need to have at least one. They are miracles, and gods gifts.” “Who will take care of you when you’re old, if you don’t have kids. How will you have purpose in your life?” Idk Karen, maybe I have other interests, and hobbies, or volunteer. I’m fully satisfied with my life WITHOUT kids. Of course this doesn’t ever shut people up.

There are very few places on the internet, and really anywhere, where childfree people can actually, openly say how they feel. If you say things like “god won’t someone shut that screaming brat up” in public, best case you get the look of death. More likely a bunch of people chastising you for not being sympathetic to the poor mom, whose REALLY stressed out, obviously.

All of that eventually breed the comments like “I’m going to put the baby in the microwave”. I know I’ve had to resort to it a few times with extra pushy people, who pester me every time they see me about kids. You get macabre enough and everyone eventually stops asking. Plus hyperbole is fun.

I though that the general consensus were that children are cute.

I find children to be the least cute of all the common household pets.

I think you're being trolled here. There is always one person who says something awkward because they're seeking attention by provoking people and the internet is anonymous.

You not seeing anyone object is probably them following the rule "Don't feed the trolls." You should follow that rule, too. Don't give them the attention they're so desperate for. If you interact with them, you start enabling them. Just downvote and ignore the trolls.

I once came across a reddit thread where physical violence against children was seen as a normal and necessary means of parenting. And it was a mature thread in a mainstream subreddit with thousands of responses. This was the consensus and anyone disagreeing was downvoted into oblivion.

Seriously what a terrible joke. You could still hear them screaming from the overhead bin!

They should put them in a kennel with the luggage, clearly.

People make offensive or disturbing jokes all the time. If you're truly so sensitive that it "really concerns" you, remember that these are strangers on the internet that will only ever have as big an impact on your life as you allow them to. If a community is full of edgy humor you don't like, leave it and find another one.

I'm not saying that to try to call you overly sensitive or anything; there are plenty of topics I wouldn't want to see jokes about either. The beauty of the entire fediverse community model is that you can go wherever people are that share your values and general vibe.

Flying with a baby should cost so much more people stop doing it. It's often painful for a baby's ears, anyway. Why risk causing your baby pain?

Iny opinion is because this kind o forums are places where people who don't like and don't want to have kids congregate because they are able to express themselves without the peer pressure of the close society they live in.

Outside of social media, I seen people shown their dislike for children. Only on reddit I see people use the term crotch demon.

I like kids, and want to become a parent. Not because kids are cute - they often aren't - but to have a family and get to nurture a young person and see them grow up. However, I hate the societal pressure to have kids and the way it pushes people who don't genuinely want to have kids into parenthood because it's the default. And it's often justified with 'kids are cute' as if finding kids cute is all it takes to be a parent. So you run into shitty to mediocre parents running around with kids they didn't want because they were told kids are the fucking meaning of life, but gave up early on because, what do you know, parenting is actually hard. And for a lot of us, those are our parents, grandparents, bosses, friends, or community members, and it's so frustrating to see that everywhere. It's really disturbing to be told by shitty parents (like my own mom) that parenthood is the best thing in the world.

As long as it's not in front of actual kids, I don't see a problem with jokes like this, and I sometimes find them pretty funny tbh. I'm not interested in giving shitty parents a free pass because kids are cute. It's not cute when someone doesn't support their kids or think about their needs, or sees them as a cute accessory instead of a person. I'm with the childfree people on this - usually their hate is not towards the children, but towards shitty parents and towards having kids being seen as the default.