The Thursday “Style” section of the New York Times carried a feature about the resentment engendered on streets and in stores by parents pushing oversized strollers (registration required).

The resentment stems not only from the fact that the big strollers take up so much room on the sidewalk or the aisle, but also because the parents piloting them are perceived as projecting a “superior” attitude. One Ophira Eisenberg (a comedian) was quoted, “These women have a child, and they’re like, ‘Look at me’…It’s like this baby is more important than anything, and everyone should be bowing down because they created life.”

E. Marla Felcher, an adjunct lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard (who is, therefore, someone whose foot I might have bumped as I was wheeling Aitch through the Public Garden), was also quoted, “I do hate the parents who somehow have decided that they are superior to everyone else because they have kids.”

Wow. Could I possibly be projecting all that attitude as I stroll Aitch downtown on my morning coffee run? “One large coffee with skim milk, please, and a major indictment of anyone in my path who has not made the same life choices as I, with a big heaping of scorn on the side!” I might actually be concerned about this if it weren’t the silliest piece of reportage to come out of the New York Times. And that’s saying a lot, David Brooks.

Marla, Ophira (come one, with jobs like “professor” and “comedian” you know you’re Googling yourselves on a regular basis) — how do you know that the superior look on my face is because of my child? Maybe it’s because my hair just looks so damned great today.