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- From: dfs@lestat.bellcore.com (Deborah Swayne)
- Subject: Re: Congratulating (het) parents on their new baby
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.162133.4439@walter.bellcore.com>
- Followup-To: soc.motss
- Sender: dfs@lestat (Deborah Swayne)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: lestat.bellcore.com
- Organization: Morristown Research and Engineering
- References: <Bzo2DH.DFx@cs.columbia.edu>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 16:21:33 GMT
- Lines: 31
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- ji@cs.columbia.edu (John Ioannidis) writes:
- |> Every once in a while I'll read on the local bboards in the places I
- |> have accounts at, that Mr&Mrs so-and-so had a brand new baby, vital
- |> statistics of the baby follow, and the message ends with how the
- |> father is proud and the mother is resting at the hospital. The message
- |> is invariably congratulatory.
- |>
- |> 1. Is it a het thing, and I just don't understand?
-
- Undoubtedly.
-
- |> 6. Should I really be working on finishing my thesis and not bothering
- |> soc.motss with my morning (very late night, actually) bitchiness?
-
- Certainly not. Now I have an opportunity to be spiteful and petty,
- too. I actually don't get too annoyed about baby congratulations,
- because I find babies pretty exciting. The one that always gets my
- goat is when straight people are, as they are invariably,
- enthusiastically congratulated for getting married. I wonder why
- nobody is ever congratulated for having the courage or imagination
- or simple unconventionality to remain single or to find some other
- interesting way to live and build family. Instead, they do this
- thing that is nearly inevitable (for heterosexuals) in our culture
- and people act as though they've discovered something new and wonderful.
-
- Of course I shouldn't post something that so clearly reveals my
- own immaturity and envy, but what the hell. :^)
-
- Debby
- dfs@bellcore.com
-
-