Monday Teeny Poll: In the Doghouse
By Glinda
I asked you last week what you thought about Angelina Jolie’s W Magazine cover, and you overwhelmingly supported it with a positive vote of 91%. I agree. We have become so accustomed to the sexualization of breasts that we forget their real purpose. There is nothing inappropriate, there is nothing shocking. Just a beautiful picture of a beautiful woman nursing what is probably a beautiful baby.
This week we are going to discuss a dad. I love dads. I think they’re great.
But this dad? I’m not sure. The Tennessee resident decided to go against his wife’s wishes of naming their newborn Ava Grace and instead filled out the birth certificate with the name “Sarah McCain Palin.” Probably while the mom was sleeping, because according to the article, she didn’t believe that her husband really did that. But he did, seeing it as his way to support his chosen cause since he doesn’t have a lot of money to donate.
October 20th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
The political aspect of it would have been irrelevant IF both parents had agreed to that name.
It’s the fact that he went behind his wife’s back, right after she went through labour and childbirth, and he had absolutely NO regard for her wishes or consideration for whether that name may cause his daughter grief down the road.
As an acquaintance said, “My wife is a vet. If I did that, I’d wake up one day to find myself neutered.”
It also slays me that he considers this a way to support his chosen candidate. Yeah, nice sacrifice YOU made there, buddy, by foisting that name on your daughter.
October 21st, 2008 at 12:35 am
I only have one argument with your lovely post (I voted!)…when it comes to the “true purpose”…um, if it were only food for the young, why would it be so pleasurable for both parties? I’m guessing they’re sort of double purpose wonders.
October 21st, 2008 at 5:09 am
The true political issue is that the person who did NOT give birth to the child is asserting naming rights over the child. Let me raise all KINDS of scary issues with this but, if the kid didn’t come out of your uterus and you’re not willing to pay for a DNA analysis, you don’t get naming rights.
October 21st, 2008 at 5:11 am
Dear god, I even work here and my comments get sent to Spam! It’s some kind of anti-communist cabal, I tell ya!
October 21st, 2008 at 11:38 pm
Ms. raincoaster, that’s why I gave up on commenting on MftBG. Sigh..Read and go, Read and go…
October 22nd, 2008 at 12:48 am
They had a big problem, but I think it’s fixed now.