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...Is to send rude emails to the non-childfree! As mentioned in an entry in author John Scalzi's blog (extract below):
This comes in the wake of having received a ten or twelve paragraph e-mail by one of those nutbag childfree folks. As most of you know, I enjoy getting hateful mail from psychotic people, because usually nothing perks up the day like invective hurled at you by someone you don’t know. But this time around, I just wasn’t into it. The first paragraph just wasn’t there, you know? It was clear that this woman was yet another of those people incensed that the world would not give her love and chocolates just because she’s decided to make her inchoate loathing of children a cornerstone of her life. And really, I’ve been down this aisle and I’ve checked out all the specials. The prospect of wading through yet another of these formless rants just to be polite filled my brain with a lassitude the consistency of heavy molasses prior to a February thaw.
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I will ask that anyone commenting over there PLEASE KEEP IT CIVIL.
(I think he was just angry because for being a "professional writer", he did indeed get some wording wrong. Of course that's going to put him on the defensive.) Hell, everyone gets defensive when their pride is wounded, and most of us don't want to admit our pride was wounded. Still, it makes things go a hell of a lot smoother to handle things in a civil manner, and to admit when we mess up. When we do that, we don't come across looking like the bad one.
It's true that the craziest of a group make the rest look bad (see also: Christians, Muslims, Sci Fi fans, men, women, et al.)
Yes, he's got some entries in his blog archives, some being Trolling the Childfree and Cogent Childfree Arguments.
I make a habit of not contributing to the paychecks of assholes. This guy is now on the same list as Orson Scott Card.
What a prick.
what did he do?
As an author, he's not all that great. Not sure why people think he is.
What I'm to understand is that in some regions, to use the word "kindly" when making a request, is, well... rude. She should have instead used the word "please", apparently. (I never say "kindly" because it's always something my yuppie aunt would say when making a request, but none of us find it rude from her. Just a yuppie way of making a request.)
BAM! You said it far better then I could. Fuck you Scalzi.
I love the way he can see deeply into people to discover what they can and can't feel. Also, how adopted kids can't be loved unconditionally, or change you for the better in the same magical way a biological kid can.
I guess it's different when they're your own.
What if he found out she wasn't actually his kid? Would he love her any less? Would his love suddenly be conditional?
Ugh, and my sister L- works with kids in foster care, and she sees all the time kids whose parents had no unconditional love for them. It's just not a guaranteed thing. :-(