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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFound 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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Chorophyll
(5,179 posts)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)to remember the party by.
"Mom, can't we have a party like the one Sophia had?"
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)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.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)orleans
(34,051 posts)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)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.
orleans
(34,051 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)The bird has a look like, "Yeah, we're a couple, you got a problem with that?"
liberalla
(9,243 posts)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)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)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.
brett_jv
(1,245 posts)Wow, what a horrible person she is.
Skittles
(153,156 posts)he is being taught hatred and intolerance, which I consider to be a form of abuse
wocaonimabi
(187 posts)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)the facebook posting.
You're right, she may be looking for the attention.
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Adrahil
(13,340 posts)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)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)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.
orleans
(34,051 posts)"MOM! THE PHONE'S RINGING AGAIN!"