VenusGoddess
10-09-2005, 06:29 PM
Wow...I don't now how to respond to a parent that has no problem with this. How about if I came up to your table and threw my schlong out on it? Do you have no standards at all? After all, it's just an action, you can explain it to your daughter and I shouldn't be thrown out of Chuck E. Cheese, should I?
No, I will say this is ridiculous. Someone who comes up to my daughter and throws their "shlong" on the table is going to be walking away in extreme pain and weighing a little less. There is a big difference between WEARING a shirt that has the word FUCK on it and whipping your dick out in public in the face of a 3 year old. The first I can deal with...the second is not acceptable. But, I guess when you run out of things to argue with...anything goes. ::)
While YOU may think I have no problem with anything what-so-ever and I'm the model "bad parent of the year"...I do have a problem with them doing something that you described above. Does it make me a bad parent that I teach my daughter that it's a free country and there are more important things to do than police what everyone says around her? That's foolish. If you think that you're going to make the world a better place by JUDGING people and CENSORING people, then you're the one who's crazy. Maybe YOU think that the shirt was in bad taste...but that's your opinion. And, you know what? I could care less what people say/wear around my daughter. I may not agree with it...but, I am not going to haul off and bitch slap someone who says "fuck" around my daughter. I'm not going to get psycho on someone who is wearing the word "fuck" on their shirt and get all weak-knee'ed at the thought of having to "explain" what the word means to my daughter. I think it's worse walking past the newspaper stand with a picture of some war-torn country splashed across the front of it and having my daughter ask me what happened to those people. I think it's worse to walk past a homeless person on the street and have to explain to my daughter that not everyone has a home and that some people live in a different "reality" in their heads...I think it's worse to have to explain why mommy volunteers at the abused women's shelter and why we even have those shelters. It's worse to have to explain why she heard that there was a dead baby found in the dumpster when we went to get bagels (the bagel shop had the news on).
No sir...in the whole scheme of things. What someone wears on their shirt that some people find amusing and others find offensive...it's nothing compared to the actual reality of the world. If you feel better giving yourself something to focus on so you do not have to deal with the REAL problems of this country/world...that's fine. I have no problem with that. But, don't sit there on your high horse and tell me that I am crazy because I do not care that someone wears the word FUCK on their shirt or that they have the "balls" to wear a shirt that you find offensive. Like I've said before, there are more important things for me to deal with...censoring someone else's morals, viewpoints, language, or actions is simply not on that list.
No, I will say this is ridiculous. Someone who comes up to my daughter and throws their "shlong" on the table is going to be walking away in extreme pain and weighing a little less. There is a big difference between WEARING a shirt that has the word FUCK on it and whipping your dick out in public in the face of a 3 year old. The first I can deal with...the second is not acceptable. But, I guess when you run out of things to argue with...anything goes. ::)
While YOU may think I have no problem with anything what-so-ever and I'm the model "bad parent of the year"...I do have a problem with them doing something that you described above. Does it make me a bad parent that I teach my daughter that it's a free country and there are more important things to do than police what everyone says around her? That's foolish. If you think that you're going to make the world a better place by JUDGING people and CENSORING people, then you're the one who's crazy. Maybe YOU think that the shirt was in bad taste...but that's your opinion. And, you know what? I could care less what people say/wear around my daughter. I may not agree with it...but, I am not going to haul off and bitch slap someone who says "fuck" around my daughter. I'm not going to get psycho on someone who is wearing the word "fuck" on their shirt and get all weak-knee'ed at the thought of having to "explain" what the word means to my daughter. I think it's worse walking past the newspaper stand with a picture of some war-torn country splashed across the front of it and having my daughter ask me what happened to those people. I think it's worse to walk past a homeless person on the street and have to explain to my daughter that not everyone has a home and that some people live in a different "reality" in their heads...I think it's worse to have to explain why mommy volunteers at the abused women's shelter and why we even have those shelters. It's worse to have to explain why she heard that there was a dead baby found in the dumpster when we went to get bagels (the bagel shop had the news on).
No sir...in the whole scheme of things. What someone wears on their shirt that some people find amusing and others find offensive...it's nothing compared to the actual reality of the world. If you feel better giving yourself something to focus on so you do not have to deal with the REAL problems of this country/world...that's fine. I have no problem with that. But, don't sit there on your high horse and tell me that I am crazy because I do not care that someone wears the word FUCK on their shirt or that they have the "balls" to wear a shirt that you find offensive. Like I've said before, there are more important things for me to deal with...censoring someone else's morals, viewpoints, language, or actions is simply not on that list.