So the current coddled brats in their 20s who are making life annoying for us Olds are one day going to have to figure out how to work alongside young whippersnappers who keep flinging off their clothes. Awesome!
The olds may not have needed conversion to accept this horseshit. I vividly remember the summer of '73, when my 8-year-old little girl self was sternly informed by an aunt that I was now too old to play outside shirtless. Somewhere along the line since then, it has became horrific for a female child to ever expose her completely undeveloped torso in public, so it seems going commando is the equivalent alternative.
I'm opposed. In general I get tired of parents letting their little demon spawn run all over the place, while also trying to act hyper-protective. If you're going to micromanage your monsters, then keep those fuckers away from me. I don't want to talk to them, and don't want them talking to me because I don't want you turning around blaming me for shit if something goes wrong.
I think it's about the moment. If you're going around the city on a Saturday afternoon with a naked child, then something must be wrong with you. That's just inviting perverts.
However, you may just be home and maybe it's hot and maybe your kid only wants to wear a t-shirt. That's a completely different situation that I totally support. At the beach? I'd say it depend on which beach, but still, I wouldn't judge those parents.
@drunkexpatwriter: Some people who are backwards enough to habour homophobic thoughts don't even think of that - they just think "Ew! Gay! Pervs!" Your question just highlights the chasm between us and them.
@drunkexpatwriter: One upon a time, people enjoyed linking homosexuals to pedophiles. Happened a lot when people were uncomfortable having homosexual teachers (70's). Still, homosexuals are still quite frequently lumped up with other perceived "sexual deviants". Read conservative points and they start comparing homosexual marriage to animal marriage and incest.
@drunkexpatwriter: Click the link (the word "history") in the comment I made earlier, and read the blurb about the book. A boy and a girl were murdered. 20 gay men, with no connection to either child, were rounded up and imprisoned, as if this were doing something to combat the threat to the kiddies. Similar things have happened in other places. Yes, it's insane, but that's exactly how insane people have been about homophobia, and why I get why Mr. Allen was nervous.
@Uncle_Billy_Slumming: I always thought the 'jay' in Jaybird was a not so subtle reference to the the famed va-jay-jay referenced in the article. Possible?
Reading the quote from the gay man just made me sad. There's a lot of history that makes a middle-aged gay man's fear of being in the presence of naked children understandable. I imagine it made him nervous in much the same way that flirtatious white women made black men nervous in the South 40 years ago.
Sorry, I know you were looking for funny, but that's all I've got.
OMG! Yes, this IS a problem. When I was at a beach, a fancy rich people beach, the Littles were just running around with their peens and other shame parts flapping around! So awful!
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However, you may just be home and maybe it's hot and maybe your kid only wants to wear a t-shirt. That's a completely different situation that I totally support. At the beach? I'd say it depend on which beach, but still, I wouldn't judge those parents.
I'm all for bareness.
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Am I missing something here?
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I think this is it! Baby Jaybirds, they are saying, are nearly featherless:
http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/33/messages/477.html
(But then we come full circle... why would baby Jaybirds be any less feathered than other baby birds?).
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Sorry, I know you were looking for funny, but that's all I've got.
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