maybe its just me...maybe not

Nov 23, 2008 20:27


 my mother sent this to me over the weekend and i just wondered if anyone else saw anything wrong with it....

ze mother's most recent mass e-mailing... )

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skreidle November 24 2008, 02:55:04 UTC
Anything wrong with it? Almost everything wrong with it? :P

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outofsynch November 24 2008, 03:06:25 UTC
i hope you're not being sarcastic.... :)

i started reading this and was like....... huh?

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skreidle November 24 2008, 03:32:47 UTC
No, no, quite serious--there's not much I -don't- find wrong with the mindset espoused there.

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jude November 24 2008, 03:12:32 UTC
Aside from the glaring feminist/humanist/pro-sanity issues in every stanza, my main problem with it is that the author actually seems to believe that such a time EVER existed. I mean, sure, maybe it used to be the ideal, for some small narrow-minded segment of society, but it NEVER actually happened.

(I would also like to point out (and if I need to, I'll go find a source) that people have been complaining about how much ruder and more badly dressed their children are than they were for literally THOUSANDS OF YEARS. Shut up already, you twits.)

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skreidle November 24 2008, 03:33:07 UTC
That too!

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outofsynch November 24 2008, 03:56:06 UTC
*snort*
by god, i didn't realize it's been going on for thousands of years... :)
i thought it was mostly just a product of the technology boom over the last century or so...
:)
good to know!

yeah, i wrote her back criticizing most of these points, and then started wondering if maybe i was just going off half-cocked...so I thought I'd ask! :)

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jude November 24 2008, 04:32:54 UTC
I'm pretty sure there's some ancient Greek writings that moan about Kids These Days. i'd have to do some hunting though, and i don't have the energy at 11:30pm...

No, as usual you're pretty much right on the money. ;)

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