tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9862855.post7881730965142411362..comments2024-03-09T10:14:49.991+00:00Comments on BarrenAlbion: DoomedMsPrufrockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06533722219016814501noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9862855.post-50087953115285801402009-09-26T07:26:17.108+01:002009-09-26T07:26:17.108+01:00I don't know, I kind of understand your mum on...I don't know, I kind of understand your mum on this one.<br />I'm a teacher and I've seen my fair share of shithouse parents, and I know that this thought has crossed my mind.<br />Would I vote for some kind of forced sterilisation/forced abortion law? Not in a million years. But I still think it from time to time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9862855.post-54832327827762267802009-08-07T00:33:37.731+01:002009-08-07T00:33:37.731+01:00I actually asked myself the other day "why wa...I actually asked myself the other day "why was I against that in San Francisco?" - I forget now what the issue was, but forgot the reason that I was staunchly opposed as it seemed quite reasonable to me at this (incredibly) advanced age.<br /><br />I know you get more crochety - don't know if that always translates into right wing (nutbag). Heh heh.Thttp://goodtimesgoodtimes.typepad.com/goodtimesgoodtimes/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9862855.post-50272260732524719652009-08-05T20:15:42.457+01:002009-08-05T20:15:42.457+01:00Isn't it compulsory to veer to the right a bit...Isn't it compulsory to veer to the right a bit as you get older? I'm certainly more judgmental and can see no reason why I should slave away paying taxes so some feckless layabout can sit on the dole watching expensive satellite tv whereas my liberal youthful self (hey i was pictured on the front page of the Guardian on a student demo once) would have been all understanding. <br /><br />Never an excuse to go neo-con mind.Betty Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02106396238018550134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9862855.post-24578822361480658182009-08-05T14:34:50.334+01:002009-08-05T14:34:50.334+01:00I can really relate to this. My mom *thinks* she ...I can really relate to this. My mom *thinks* she is liberal, but she's actually rather conservative. She told me once that her biggest problem with gay marriage was that marriage was created (by GOD, of course) for the purpose of bringing children into the world, and that two men or two women could not do this, and therefore that gay marriage was wrong. When I pointed out to her that many straight couples can't or choose not to have children (she doesn't know about my infertility), she got really, REALLY angry and said that that wasn't what she was talking about, and how dare I put words in her mouth (?). <br /><br />And another time, as I was leaving swim practice at a local university, I apparently left my purse sitting on the roof of my car, because when I got to school I didn't have it. My mom had given me one of her department store credit cards so that I could buy some necessary item after school that day, so when I told her that my purse was missing and that I had last seen it at swim practice, she freaked and said that I'd probably just bought a mexican family a whole new wardrobe (because the university where we practiced was bordered by a sort of shady neighborhood (it was known as the street where you went to find prostitutes or drugs) on one side and by a mostly hispanic (but not shady) neighborhood on the other side. When my purse turned up later, fully intact, with all credit cards, bank cards and licenses in place, my mom just said I was damn lucky. <br /><br />But see? She's still a hardcore Democrat, so she thinks that means that she's liberal. She gives a shitload of money to the Democratic party and to various candidates who are liberal-leaning. And I just don't get it, because racism isn't liberal, and she is racist. And being anti-civil-rights isn't liberal, and she thinks that people who don't agree with GOD'S BLEEPIN' COVENANT, who don't have children or CAN'T have children shouldn't be allowed to get married. <br /><br />But then again, she's the same person that insisted that I go to Hippie School for preschool, where we learned how to make our own tofu, and raised free-range chickens (for eggs only, of course), where we learned yoga, and recycling and composting, and where if you didn't want to learn math, you were free to leave the room and go learn something else (or to crawl in a wooden box with a record player and a Cat Stevens album and listen to the music as loud as it would go... or go play on the playground with the big kids where you would learn that motherfucker is a GREAT new word to call your mom, only later learning, of course, that it is not so acceptable.)<br /><br />So yeah. I'm terrified all the time that I'm going to wake up and realize that I'm spouting some conservative nonsense about genetic superiority or some shit. But I also wonder if my vigilance toward that impending right-wing doom might also work to help prevent it's appearance. I don't know, but I sure hope so.katehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08056463808792013011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9862855.post-90979608374861808512009-08-05T12:50:20.730+01:002009-08-05T12:50:20.730+01:00Heh, I just did that quiz earlier tonight. Came ou...Heh, I just did that quiz earlier tonight. Came out far left, of course, but I have to admit to hovering over the "Some people should not be allowed to have children" question for a bit longer than I ought to have.Meghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08906061600946743436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9862855.post-44443500714703801422009-08-05T10:53:28.904+01:002009-08-05T10:53:28.904+01:00Yeah. What the hell is that all about? Do we just ...Yeah. What the hell is that all about? Do we just get more judgmental as we age? My mother-in-law is an exception to the rule, I think. She remains liberal and informed on most issues. Oh, wait. She totally looks down on anyone who does manual labor or has an occupation that she considers "blue collar" like police officers. What do you call that? Classism?Miz Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09797076536055067930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9862855.post-66055255714381080652009-08-05T08:16:36.419+01:002009-08-05T08:16:36.419+01:00I think your mother knows my father. He spent his ...I think your mother knows my father. He spent his youth being an angry socialist beatnik hippy type, all about free love (umm, that part annoyed my mum a fair bit), human rights, love, peace and equality, gay liberation and women's lib. Now? Oh, he's still a socialist. A proper one. Except, he thinks lesbians, especially pretty ones, 'are going through a phase', and that women are happiest being wives and mothers (ARGH) and that there are no great women painters or composers because women don't have the right sort of mind, and that gay men are fey and unreliable, and I won't repeat his opinions on Muslim immigrants in case you get googled by whack-jobs. <br /><br />And I look at him ranting on and think 'Did you change? Or were you always like this but pretended not to be so you could get laid?'Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com