This weekend was pretty much a landmark for me. This Saturday marked the first time in my entire life that I had a blowout on the highway. Sure enough, my friggin' tire developed a four inch gash on the side and deflated rather rapidly. Ironically, I lost it about a mile from the exit I use to go to work every day. I'm not sure if I'm happy about that, but at least I knew where to go to get a brand friggin' new pair of tires. As a result, I didn't get to go to the computer show, but the subsequent lacrosse game was pretty cool...
So as I was reliving my college years by hanging out with college students and having profound conversations about things that we can't do anything about when the subject of relationships comes up. My official stance is that two (or more) consenting adults can do whatever they want...as long as they don't bring kids into the picture.
People have an ambivalent attitude about kids. They go and bitch that they're getting bad influences on TV, that they're getting sub-par education, and that they need all of our attention to prosper, and then they toss them in daycare or plop them in front of the TV for 16 hours a day and then wonder why they grow up to be drug-addled petty criminal high school dropout thugs WHO GET ALL THE CHICKS or if female, hook onto that kind of guy after dumping a kind, compassionate, intelligent fellow who is getting his MBA!!!!!!!
Actually, please strike that from the record. It makes me sound bitter.
So anyway, they want to pop out kids, but don't bother to take the responisbility. If they don't have time for a pet DOG, a KID isn't for them. I supect that a lot of parents have kids because THEY want to shut up their biological clock or quiet their mid-life crisis or are just too stupid to use a rubber (but that's a whole other entry). Worse yet, some of them just don't seem to CARE. I was watching a sex and love advice show, and some stupid slut called in. In the course of the questioning, she reveals that she has three kids by the same guy (fortunately). When asked why she hasn't married him, she says in a whiny voice, "We wanted to make sure that it's real!" Oh, so the stupid whore and dickhead will pump out three kids, but those are naturally a distant subordinate TO THEIR OWN FUCKING WANTS. AAAUGH!
That's the killer, I think. People see having kids as a sideshow to the rest of their lives. Go ahead and pop out a baker's dozen, but heaven forbid it should rob you of the ability to go out and party every night or crimp your career. The dads are particularly to blame in the arena. Taking care of kids has been primarily "women's work" mostly because they've got the boobs and the dads have been more or less free to do anything. Now, perhaps many if not most of them took the time to actually be father figures, by quite a few would rather not be there at all.
Perhaps that is what's fed the delusion that a child can grow up just as well without a father as with one, a supposition disproved repeatedly. In most cases, it's the dickhead guy who walks out, leaving the woman no choice but to raise the kid on her own. In a disturbing turn of events, though, many women are choosing to have a child with the intent of robbing them of a father. I would propose that such people are incredibly selfish (specifically, the dickhead who splits when the stick turns blue or the woman decides that men suck) with no regard for the new person they're bringing into the world.
People piss me off.
