If you don’t stop blowing that whistle, I’m going to come down there and shove it down your trachea.
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The office where I work is closed, but because I need the money, because there’s still work that needs to be done, and because the document review I’m doing is online, I got all the secret codes so I can work from home.
And, dammit, wouldn’t you know it’s a nice day out.
Which means that the kids from the daycare center that’s right outside my window are out in the yard, screaming their heads off. Well, except that one kid, who makes all these weird guttural howls. I suspect that may be the same kid who brandished a hockey stick at me and Junebug one day as we were walking by his house and howled, “I WANNA KILL THE DOG!”
And people wonder why I don’t want kids.
Carol “I am watching my 2-year-old for signs of chubbiness because that way lies hoochie-mama-dom” Lloyd* was bad enough, but now Tracy Clark-Flory ups the ante with this wistfully paternalistic little bit in a post about an Alternet piece describing the efforts of a young white woman to get her tubes tied, only to be told over and over that she was too young: Continue reading ‘I’m starting to wonder about Broadsheet’
Carol Lloyd at Salon’s Broadsheet posted a story the other day about a woman who’s suing Continental Airlines for kicking her family off a flight after some kind of altercation with the flight attendant over the flight attendant’s alleged suggestion that the woman’s son, who was repeating, “Bye bye plane” before takeoff, needed to shut up, and, when the mother asked what she was supposed to do, that “It’s called baby Benadryl.”
Now, I don’t know what happened on the flight, because I wasn’t there. Not to mention, we’re only getting the mother’s side of the story (including her appearance on Good Morning America with her son, who was so restless and making so much noise he had to be taken away from the interview). We really can’t tell, from the mother’s account, just how she objected to the alleged suggestion of Benadryl (and from experience, I’m guessing that this is where things went all pear-shaped, since these kinds of accounts usually leave out crucial details like that. Which is why you usually hear about them when the complaint is filed and not after more details have come out during discovery and the case is settled).
What I want to talk about is Lloyd’s post at Broadsheet, because it irritates the fuck out of me. After recounting the Continental story (casting it as “mother kicked off flight for refusing to drug her child”), Lloyd continues:
Bring on the child haters, the airline critics, the lazy parenting theorists! If you think this story sounds like an urban legend designed to foment sippy-cup culture wars, I don’t blame you. I too would have found it difficult to swallow had I not experienced a similar treatment on an airline just last month. The details are tedious — they involve me tapping the flight attendant on the shoulder trying to pass along some trash, him informing me he didn’t appreciate “being touched,” and me asking why he was being so rude. He then snarled at me: “Your children are totally out of control! If you’d just discipline them, you’d be much better off.”
Right. Because anyone who gets irritated by screaming kids on airplanes must be a child-hater. It gets better, though: Continue reading ‘Unfriendly Skies?’
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