Letters to the Editor

• We're hearing from the wrong party

  [Read the article: Bad news dad]
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  We are missing the real story. I want to hear what Mr. Rose's FIRST WIFE thinks about all this. You know, how she feels on Father's Day, when the father of her children is off celebrating with his NEW family consisting of small children and a wife who was allegedly "in braces when Mr. Rose was diapering his first children". After all, the FIRST MRS. ROSE is probably in her late 50s -- any bets on whether she has remarried a young trophy husband and produced a second brood of children?

  The answer is: obviously NO, because short of about a million bucks in infertility hocus-pocus, a 58 year old woman cannot have a second go-around at being a parent in old age. (Even the rare examples with donor eggs are not having their own biological offspring.) It's also pretty rare for a 58 year old woman, even a very attractive and wealthy one, to have a trophy husband who is half her age.

  And I really want to hear from Mr. Rose's first two sons -- why aren't they even mentioned? Did he enjoy their childhood and infancy any more than the second two, or is the reason he's so blase and jaded because he "did it all" with them? And I want to hear THEIR side of this, not his. How do they feel about being replaced by two cuter, younger kids? Does it make them feel like their mom felt when she was replaced by a trophy wife just out of braces?

  How does it feel to be 30+ and have siblings who are four years old? How does it feel to have siblings who are the same age (or younger) than your own offspring? How does it feel when your dad remarries a young trophy wife who is roughly YOUR AGE, and starts a new family, and basically is aping all the things YOU are doing, so that your joys and challenges and new experiences are being coopted by him?

  Because he can't stand not being the center of attention? The graying and paunchy, grouchy and selfish center of attention? The 58-year old boy?

  Hey, don't worry. At 58, he probably has time to ditch the second Mrs. Rose, and remarry a woman who is (this time) ONE THIRD his age, and have another even younger family. Why not? Didn't Picasso do this? Isn't nature wonderful, that men are allowed to continue to pop out kids -- ok, kids with a really high risk of autism and other defects but whatever -- to pop out kids almost until their death bed?

  Doesn't that prove that ONLY WOMEN AGE, and men are eternally young? Of course it does!

  So I want to hear from the real victims of this story, the discarded children and discarded wives, sacrificed on the altar of one man's selfish disregard for anyone but himself, his own amusement, his own sexual ego.

  Mr. Rose, just keep telling yourself: "I'm still young! My whole life is ahead of me! Young women find me attractive, hence this means I am virile and youthful! Maybe I will never die! Me! Me! Me!"

  Tick. Tick. Tick.

  Permalink Sunday, June 17, 2007 07:59 AM