Anna Kendrick Perfectly Distills A Frustrating Double Standard Between Childless Men And Women

Parenthood isn't for everybody. But that's easier to say out loud if you're a guy.

On more than one occasion, “Pitch Perfect” actor Anna Kendrick has said that she’s fine with not having kids.

“Motherhood isn’t for me,” she wrote in her 2016 memoir, “Scrappy Little Nobody.”

In an interview with the magazine Flow Space published earlier this week, Kendrick, 39, was asked if she still holds that stance ― and she smartly redirected the conversation. Instead of saying “No, I’m still good on that,” she discussed the double standard that exists between child-free men and child-free women.

“I was thinking recently about a phrase I’ve heard men say about their desire to have children in the future, and it occurred to me: I don’t think I’ve ever heard a woman say that,” Kendrick said. “The thing they’ll say is, ‘Yeah, maybe one day — a couple of kids running around.’”

“I don’t think I’ve ever heard a woman say that!” she told the magazine. “Because it paints a certain visual, yes? That you [as a man] come home at the end of your workday, and you put down your proverbial briefcase, and you’re making yourself a cocktail, and a woman in a Laura Ashley dress is out in the yard, and there’s a couple of kids — in white! — running around.”