I’m a mother to a thirteen-year-old boy. My husband was deployed at the time of this incident. My social media had just been updated to have a photo of my son and me (before then, I didn’t want pictures of my kiddo online) waving to the camera on a camping trip.

Within an hour, I got chat messages from a random man who wasn’t even on my friend list.

Random Man: “Yo, you need to lose the baggage.”

Me: “…Excuse me?”

Random Man: “Look, lady, as soon as you get impregnated by a dude who’s going to make you a single mother, your stock goes down and your baggage goes up.

Random Man: “NO man grows up saying, ‘I wanna be the best step-dad ever!’”

Random Man: “We need to normalize the fact that we want to START families, not continue a save file in some other dude’s game.”

Me: “In today’s episode of ‘What inanimate objects are women being compared to now?’, we have a game save file and business stocks, with a bonus of children being called baggage.”

Random Man: “Just saying that your kid makes you less marketable on the dating scene.”

Me: “First of all, I’m not single, so a**holes like you don’t have a chance anyway. Second of all, literally nobody asked for your s***ty opinion.”

I blocked him.

I can only guess he just saw a random mother with a kid and no man in sight on the profile picture and assumed I was single. To compound the stupidity, my profile also lists my husband in the “Married To” part of my bio, with a link to HIS social media profile. My husband’s latest profile picture shows him in his full military gear.

Not sure if this creeper was too stupid to actually read the room — or my profile — or if he got it into his head that deployed family members always die, thus making me “single sooner or later”.