Every now and then something just sets your teeth on edge and jars the fillings therein, doesn't it, Gentle Blog-Browser? Like the morning I'm having because I'm waiting for an insurance claim to be finalised to replace various white and electrical goods, thus necessitating my trip to the laundromat this morning, and my drive afterwards to the town library. On the way Billy Joel's 'Uptown Girl' was wafting through the speakers and for some reason that song just gets up my nose. It's cheesy enough to constipate you, and every time he chants, 'You know I can't afford to buy her pearls...', I roll my eyes and think, 'Billy, you could probably buy a small island in the Caribbean!' Also, there is currently a mothers' group having a session here at the library, and one of the kids is squealing with an intensity and decibel level that is making the top of my skull feel as though it's peeling back like a sardine can. Not to be over critical, of course; I have children myself and know what a capricious and frightful creature a tired baby is. But it's still a tad irritating.
What else has really pissed me off is the new One Nation candidate for the Pilbara region, David Archibald. He's defending an article he wrote a while back in which he slagged off single mothers. Hey, Archibald - the 1950's rang: Go home; dinner's ready. I thought people had stopped the needless criticism of single mothers, who actually have a very tough job. I remember years ago unmarried teenaged mums were referred to as 'girls like that'. Girls like what? Humanoid life forms comprising chiefly oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium and phosphorus?
Archibald's theory is single mothers are too 'lazy to attract a mate', and they are likely to breed a sector of society that are 'lazy and ugly'.
David, David, David. You complete and utter unmitigated, unadulterated, donkey-fellating imbecile. Do you hold the appropriate sociological and anthropological qualifications to back up this specious and frankly offensive claim? Your notion is problematic on a few levels. Let me explain them for you, after you've had a chance to pick up the dictionary and look up 'problematic'.
Checked the definition, now? Scratched your balls? Picked your nose and rolled the snot into a ball and flicked it somewhere? Okay, sit back and let me point out some things to you:
First of all, single mothers are not necessarily lazy because they have to do the work of TWO parents. Have you an opinion on the fathers who abandon the family unit, or is that okay in your twisted mind? What about the single mother who has left an abusive or no longer working relationship? What about the single mother who is widowed? And here's one that will tweak your nuts: the leader of your putrescent party One Nation was for a very long time herself a SINGLE MOTHER!
As for lazy and ugly people, let me point out a few people who were illegitimate. None of this list are particularly lazy, and not all that ugly, either:
Leonardo da Vinci
Sophia Loren
T E Lawrence
William the Conqueror
Arnold Schwarzenegger
I'd submit the above list are actually a very useful lot of people, although I do wish Arnie had not pursued an acting career - he can't act.
Something else, and I know I'm being mean here, but - it's like this - aesthetically speaking, you are really nothing to write a sonnet over.
I don't know if you are single, but if you are, David, it's not your looks. It's your antiquated and chauvinistic attitude. Your type spends their waking hours sitting in a tree flinging around their own dung, and frankly nobody wants to be hit with a flying pellet.
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