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• Monday, September 10, 2007 02:14 PM

  The subject is lead

  Please keep to the subject -- that is, how to keep lead away from children. It is not about being "politically correct," or about demographic correlations with "political correctness."

  And it is not about whether those individuals who do have children are in any way morally better than those without children, or vice versa.

  Also, please don't be distracted by Deering's irrational rants. Those who have seen Deering's past missives will know that 1) this individual is actually a woman, and 2) this individual is childless and inexplicably angry at, resentful of and hate-filled about ALL women who do have children, including her own female relatives (though I'm not sure how she reconciles that with her attitudes toward her mother). No doubt she will answer this post with some other missive about how the existence of mothers in this world is disgusting and makes her life miserable, and children are pond scum and life is so unfair because some people think motherhood is a good thing, yadda yadda.

  It's irrational to use concerns about children's exposure to lead as some kind of fodder for attacking mothers, or attacking non-mothers, for that matter. It doesn't matter if 51 percent of that demographic of "married mothers" voted for Bush or 99 percent did or 1 percent did or whatever.

  Actually, a lot of voters who are married mothers, like myself, absolutely cannot stand George W. Bush and worked very hard in the past to defeat him, and a lot of us were quite heartbroken at the results of the 2000 and 2004 elections. A lot of citizens who are married mothers, such as myself, are longtime environmental activists. (If you're insisting on giving rights only to individuals who happen to be in those specific demographic groups in which a majority voted in the "proper" way, and denying rights to anyone who's in a demographic group of which a majority voted in the "wrong" way, remember that single mothers tend to be strongly Democratic.)

  But that's irrelevant. No child should be put at risk of lead poisoning, no matter how that child's mother voted, or even if she did not vote at all.

  —Anonymous
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