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- From: scott@bbx.basis.com (Scott Amspoker)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: Congratulating (het) parents on their new baby
- Message-ID: <6@bbx.basis.com>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 16:29:37 GMT
- References: <1h7g64INNsh7@rave.larc.nasa.gov> <3@bbx.basis.com> <1h9mq7INNcs@rave.larc.nasa.gov>
- Organization: BASIS International, Ltd., Albuquerque NM USA
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- In article <1h9mq7INNcs@rave.larc.nasa.gov> carlson@ab24.larc.nasa.gov (Ann Carlson) writes:
- >In article <3@bbx.basis.com>, scott@bbx.basis.com (Scott Amspoker) writes:
- >|>
- >|> I offered a flip response to what was obviously a flip question.
- >|> I find it revealing that a couple of posters flew off the handle
- >|> on this subject.
- >|>
- >
- >I didn't think it at all obviously a flip question. Or rather, the
- >feeling I got was similar to my response when people tell "dead baby"
- >jokes and then blame the listener for being humor-impaired when
- >offended by the subject matter.
-
- The "pot roast" comment didn't clue you in that the post was flip?
- OK, so you were offended but why did you believe the poster was
- serious?
-
- >
- >|> Have we discovered a new sacred cow?
- >
- >Are you so suprised that the subject of babies and birth announcements
- >is an intensely emotional one for many people?
-
- So, yes, we have another sacred cow.
-
- >My sis-in-law just had *another* miscarriage. She has them about the
- >forth month every time she gets pregnant. 4 months of pregnancy is
- >plenty of time to begin all sorts of hopes and dreams for the baby and
- >the family. If she ever manages to carry a baby to term she and her
- >husband will be estatic, proud, joyful, awed, and probably
- >self-congratulatory. I am sure they will announce the
- >event to the whole world - or as much as they can reach of it.
- >If anyone mars their joy by making comments like: "10 pound baby -
- >hardly big enough for a pot roast," they'll have a lot to answer for
- >in my opinion.
-
- I hope you feel the same conviction the next time a homosexual couple
- announces their special joy to the whole world.
-
- --
- Scott Amspoker |
- Basis International, Albuquerque, NM | Too bad ignorance isn't really
- | bliss. Then it could be outlawed.
- scott@bbx.basis.com |
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