That's what I get for posting at 4 am...

Here's some psychoanalysis for you to wonder about:

If mothers (and as I have repeated said, fathers as well) chose to show an iota of respect and empathy to other people by teaching their kids how to behave...

And if moms & dads could somehow, hope beyond hope, grasp that there are perfectly decent folk out there who's universe does not revolve around your precious can-do-no-wrong angels...

Then the 'fury' from we eeevil vitriolic "non-mothers" (oh, the scorn!=) might just abate.

Just sayin'...

Amen, my friend.

As a single, childless person, I have no inherent problem with mothers/parents and little kids. I happily babysat my nephews & nieces as a teen.

BUT: I do have a pretty huge beef with completely undisciplined brats...and the moms (AND dads) who believe that little Junior and Taylor Miley Brianna can do no wrong.

Just because the 130 decibel piercing screams of your precious little angel have become white noise to you doesn't mean the rest of us are not tortured by it.

And no, it actually is NOT okay for your sainted spawn to kick the back of a bus, cinema or airplane seat as hard as they can for hours on end.

And no, your little darling's tantrum is not a wonderful expression of creativity and free will. It's just a fucking tantrum. And if you are unable or unwilling to respond to such a fit with even an iota of discipline, then you have no business procreating.

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I'll end with a lovely anecdote. While recently dining at a fast-casual (read: NOT Chuck E. Cheese) restaurant, a ~4 y.o. bratette who was running around without any supervision from her 'rents came up to my table.

In a surreal scene, she literally grabbed my glass of soda and put it to her lips before I could even respond. (Guess she was thirsty. Ah, well - it takes a village, right breeders?) Little Miss Precious then attempted to put the glass back onto my table. It fell, spilling pop all over the magazine I'd been reading...and onto my lap. (So much for those new black pants I got for my b-day.)

I reflexively bolted up as my drink spilled everywhere - uttering the word "Shit!" in a not-too-loud but clear tone. At this point, Saint Mom finally noticed what was going on - and proceeded to arrive at my table in a huff.

"How DARE you curse in front of my daughter?!?!? she screamed, so loud that people outside the diner could here. She then whisked her innocent angel away - completely oblivious to what her beacon of light had done.

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Moral of the story?

Your rugrat may be the center of YOUR universe...

But please, please, please, saint Mom: do not for a minute assume or demand that MY universe revolves around your brat.

Oh, and btw - leaving the office 2 hours early every Wed. & Fri. (conveniently when our boss is traveling for business) because 'Cody has the sniffles' etc etc...with me as a childless employee having to stay late to finish YOUR workload?!?!

That's not the way flex time is supposed to work, you breeder #%$^$...

Williams explicitly asserts that opposing the presence of illegal aliens in the USA is an automatically racist stance.

I beg to disagree.

I could care less whether it was 13 million illegal blond blue-eyed Swedes or 13 million Mexicans or 13 million Chinese Ughurs; regardless of their race, they have driven down wages for legal immigrants and American citizens - and empowered anti-union, money-grubbing Republikkkan fat cat business owners in the process.

As someone who is a legal immigrant to this country, I understand frustration toward the USCIS and its slowwwwwwwwww rate of processing law-abiding folks like me who are trying to do it the right way.

That does NOT mean I think every individual lucky enough to share the border with the USA should be able to claim citizenship just by jumping a fence.

NO other nation in the world - rich or poor, West or East - has an open borders policy towards illegal aliens. To adopt such an agenda would destroy that country in short order.

But of course, to a "white guilt" liberal like Williams, anyone who dares to disagree with the notion that the USA should open its borders completely to everyone is racist....

It is if you are not black.

An Afro-American lecturer at my U once explained that anyone who was not black - whether they were Asian, WASP, Jewish, Native etc etc - was automatically a racist because they did not understand black oppression. The only way to erase this default racism, according to him, was to enroll in an Afro-American studies course to gain insight.

During the Q&A session after the lecture, I asserted that I - a South Asian individual - had experienced oppression & racism due to my ethnicity at the hands of a black majority population in the Caribbean. I also posited that my grandparents had experienced oppression at the hands of (white) British colonialists. I then asked the good professor if I still needed to take one of his department courses - or if, instead, I had sufficient "context".

"Did you say you experienced racist treatment from BLACK people?!?!" he responded.

I re-iterated that I did.

"Well - you, sir, are clearly a racist."

Ahhhhh. Now I see.

=)

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So, Mary Elizabeth Williams - are you black?

If not, then you - and your article - is teh racist!