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CatWoman

(79,301 posts)
Thu Feb 13, 2014, 12:41 AM Feb 2014

Found this on Facebook. Tommy's Mom is a real piece of work.



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Steve & Leeana got this from a set of dads in Baldwin who were really upset over how one mom, Beth, chose to respond to their daughter's birthday party invite. Do you think she was right to write this? Would a simple phone call RSVP'ing "no" been better?

BTW: Beth gave us permission to post her phone number and said anyone who has a problem with what she wrote can call her, too!

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Found this on Facebook. Tommy's Mom is a real piece of work. (Original Post) CatWoman Feb 2014 OP
Holy crap. Baldwin, NY? Chorophyll Feb 2014 #1
Plus, a tie-dye party's a real good idea- each kid brings home their own creation NBachers Feb 2014 #2
That's actually hilarious. SheilaT Feb 2014 #3
I swear,...it reads like she hates tie dye. Spitfire of ATJ Feb 2014 #4
lol--that's what i first thought. then..."maybe the parents are hippies?" until i read orleans Feb 2014 #6
What gets me is how these type believe their blessing is desired.... Spitfire of ATJ Feb 2014 #8
great photo. (a bird and a ? not sure) n/t orleans Feb 2014 #9
A bird and a mouse.... Spitfire of ATJ Feb 2014 #10
My first thought was, she's gonna' be changing her number soon! liberalla Feb 2014 #14
i thought she had a problem with the "hippie" thing based on the tie dye , but she was rude JI7 Feb 2014 #5
Her innocent son Stargazer09 Feb 2014 #7
I commented on the FB page, gave Beth a piece o' my mind ... brett_jv Feb 2014 #11
I feel sorry for Beth's son Skittles Feb 2014 #12
+1 Scuba Feb 2014 #16
Beth will become the new hero of the right now wocaonimabi Feb 2014 #13
She gave PERMISSION for her phone number to be included on liberalla Feb 2014 #15
Message auto-removed Name removed Feb 2014 #17
Fuck that. Adrahil Feb 2014 #18
What lifestyle? LWolf Feb 2014 #19
So, let's not waste any time... pipi_k Feb 2014 #20
3:30 a.m.: tommy: "MOM! PHONE!" orleans Feb 2014 #21

Chorophyll

(5,179 posts)
1. Holy crap. Baldwin, NY?
Thu Feb 13, 2014, 02:12 AM
Feb 2014

40 minutes by train to NYC. How does this miserable woman cope? She's pretty much surrounded by "lifestyles."

I hope she's received a lot of calls.

NBachers

(17,108 posts)
2. Plus, a tie-dye party's a real good idea- each kid brings home their own creation
Thu Feb 13, 2014, 02:18 AM
Feb 2014

to remember the party by.

"Mom, can't we have a party like the one Sophia had?"

 

SheilaT

(23,156 posts)
3. That's actually hilarious.
Thu Feb 13, 2014, 02:31 AM
Feb 2014

I wish that when my sons were little, and I was doing birthday parties for them, I'd thought of this. What a cool thing to bring home something the kid made, rather than the standard bag of goodies.

orleans

(34,051 posts)
6. lol--that's what i first thought. then..."maybe the parents are hippies?" until i read
Thu Feb 13, 2014, 03:26 AM
Feb 2014

beneath the picture.

yeah--i bet she gets a few calls.

i would also like to add i am sorry her son has to grow up with her ignorance and prejudices in his life

 

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)
8. What gets me is how these type believe their blessing is desired....
Thu Feb 13, 2014, 03:48 AM
Feb 2014

But then I've met people who act like it's a "mixed marriage" for a Catholic and a Baptist to hook up.



Love is universal.

 

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)
10. A bird and a mouse....
Thu Feb 13, 2014, 04:15 AM
Feb 2014

The bird has a look like, "Yeah, we're a couple, you got a problem with that?"

liberalla

(9,243 posts)
14. My first thought was, she's gonna' be changing her number soon!
Thu Feb 13, 2014, 06:37 AM
Feb 2014

but on facebook it says she gave permission for her phone number to be displayed. ???

Poor Tommy. I feel bad for him too.



JI7

(89,248 posts)
5. i thought she had a problem with the "hippie" thing based on the tie dye , but she was rude
Thu Feb 13, 2014, 03:22 AM
Feb 2014

she could have just said her kid can't make it.

but based on what she has done i think she wanted to make a point to show how she does not approve .

and others should tell her what a horrible bigot she is.

Stargazer09

(2,132 posts)
7. Her innocent son
Thu Feb 13, 2014, 03:29 AM
Feb 2014

I bet her innocent son is wondering why his mother is making him miss out on what sounds like an awesome birthday party. Poor kid.

Skittles

(153,156 posts)
12. I feel sorry for Beth's son
Thu Feb 13, 2014, 05:14 AM
Feb 2014

he is being taught hatred and intolerance, which I consider to be a form of abuse

 

wocaonimabi

(187 posts)
13. Beth will become the new hero of the right now
Thu Feb 13, 2014, 05:57 AM
Feb 2014

the right does love those that publically and proudly discriminate.

Maybe she will get an invite to the SOTU or some other event as a guest of a RW A-hole.

Look for Beth on RW Hate Radio and TV too, Beth is about to get her 15 minutes!

In a week or two the right will want her to run for office on an anti gay or anti tie dye platform, it depend on how one interprets her response.

liberalla

(9,243 posts)
15. She gave PERMISSION for her phone number to be included on
Thu Feb 13, 2014, 06:44 AM
Feb 2014

the facebook posting.

You're right, she may be looking for the attention.

Response to CatWoman (Original post)

 

Adrahil

(13,340 posts)
18. Fuck that.
Thu Feb 13, 2014, 10:10 AM
Feb 2014

Couldn't be contented with a polite "no" could she. Cannot WAIT for those fools to be as marginalized as possible.

LWolf

(46,179 posts)
19. What lifestyle?
Thu Feb 13, 2014, 10:43 AM
Feb 2014

I've read it through 3 times and still can't see what she's objecting to. Is tie dye somehow subversive?

pipi_k

(21,020 posts)
20. So, let's not waste any time...
Thu Feb 13, 2014, 11:09 AM
Feb 2014

Let's just get right down to the business of hating on little Tommy, too, because in 20 or 30 years' time this same note could be coming from him, too.

This is where it all starts. Maybe Beth had the same type of upbringing.

Little kids don't come into this world with prejudices. They're made that way. They're virtually brainwashed year after year until the time when they get out on their own and they start expressing the beliefs they heard around the dinner table, and then they're called stupid, evil, cowardly, etc.

Like they CHOSE to believe what their parents rammed into their heads.

And when they get older and someone else points out how "wrong" they are, what's the choice they're faced with, even as an adult? In order to reject what they believe, they may wonder if their parents...the most important people in their lives...LIED to them.

This is why I find it so disgusting when people say they publicly humiliated someone for expressing beliefs that are less than politically correct. First of all, public humiliation is rude. Second, public humiliation over something the person can't help thinking/believing is vile.

Would anyone here actually do that to, for example, an innocent person who had been brainwashed into believing he had committed a crime? And that's only over the course of a few hours!

Imagine being brainwashed year after year into thinking that gays, blacks, women, atheists, etc., are bad.

So yeah...might as well get right to it...someday Tommy will be Beth, and all the "cool kids" will be sitting around judging him for learning, perhaps too well, the lessons his mom taught him.




PS...and in case nobody "gets it", I am in no way defending his mom. She, most likely, was just as much a victim of prejudice as a child as he was. Brainwashed at a tender age. Maybe she can be taught otherwise...maybe not.

But you don't "teach" someone by calling them names or humiliating them in public.

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