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cpl4third -> RE: Notice: People are full of shit (5/27/2010 6:46:42 AM)
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ORIGINAL: brainiacsub
jb, what you have said here is generally correct, but the OP is not wrong either. I think he is balls on accurate, although I may have worded it a little different myself. It has been pointed out that people are focusing too much on the specifics of being a single mother, which was never the intent of the OP, rather than on the age, tats, piercings, and single motherhood being a symptom of a much larger problem, as you pointed out here and I think the OP would agree with. I think most people on this thread are being disingenuous at best, hypocritical at worst. The OP never made a blanket statement against single motherhood, the people responding and taking offense to him did.
If you remove the specific example of single motherhood and add a little decorum and finesse, you would have this recent post by AnimusRex:
http://www.collarchat.com/fb.asp?m=3221382
I didn't see anyone giving Mr. Rex shit about this, notwithstanding the fact that he was also balls on accurate.
Excellent comments. brainiac. They seem to have stopped the discussion of the bigger points dead cold.
As for the Rex post, I surmise that he was speaking to one individual, whereas my post incriminates the larger group, for being passive spectators to social problems (at best) and active enablers to social problems (at worst). I guess the gang of merry commenters don't like that much, spawning the mentally-creative among them to assert that I am suddenly an unemployed woman-hater with a bias against single parenting. I guess they are just doin' what they do.
I wouldn't make this a "which side of the tracks" issue, as there are plenty of smart and privileged people out there who chronically make some very boneheaded life choices, just as much as there are uneducated, underprivileged people coming from an abused upbringing who make some very smart life choices when on their own. I think its more an issue of personal responsibility and self-control, and less of the "uncontrollable" influences like education, upbringing and poverty.
As for my profile, ask the site admins why it can't be seen. I have it on. I have made 2 requests to support, both unanswered. Of course, I dont know what the forum folks who live to make that an issue will do next.
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