Conservative white suburban Christian mothers...
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title = name(self, handle) Join Date: 2003-02-15 Member: 13597Members, Constellation
title = name(self, handle) Join Date: 2003-02-15 Member: 13597Members, Constellation
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So, as some of you may know, but most of you probably do not, I work at a movie theater. My job, among other things is to sell movie tickets to people. Tonight, a pair of conservative white suburban Christian mothers (henceforth known as CWSCM) walk in to the theater, each with a small child of about 3 or 4 years of age. They approach the box office where I just happen to be sitting, and start asking me questions about a movie titled "The Ultimate Gift", which is rated PG and distributed by FoxFaith.
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Well, one of the CWSCM asks me why this particular film is rated PG. I turn around and reach into the mystic drawer that only theater employees may open, and remove the film description list. I read to her what the MPAA film ratings board wrote. "Rated PG for thematic elements, some violence and language." After I recite the line, the CWSCM immediately asks another question. "What's 'thematic elements' mean?". To which I replied "I have absolutely no idea."
Now, at about this time, I start to get slightly peeved. My favorite movie when I was the age of the children which the CWSCM had with them was Child's Play. I obviously share a vastly different opinion on the subject matter than these CWSCM do, and the tone of my voice was already starting to suggest that I was mildly annoyed (although I was trying to be as polite and helpful as I could). The other CWSCM, who until this time had been silent, spoke. "When I saw it the first time", referring to the movie, "there was a part in the end that was a little scary". Now, this juicy tidbit of information came as a shock to me. Not only had this overly protective mother (who shelters her child from PG rated movies) seen the movie but already knew the answers to the questions her annoying CWSCM friend was asking me.
Now, I've seen children who are raised by parents like that. One of my younger brother's acquaintances has a CWSCM. He attempted to spend the night over once, and ended up in tears because he was half a block away from his mother who bans him from playing any games rated above E and from seeing any movies rated anything above PG (The kid was 12 at the time).
Now, what bothers me, is I've seen kids like this before, I went to school with them. They are the kids that even the computer science kids and band nerds beat up for lunch money. They are the ones who get picked on, tormented and bullied throughout school. One of them that I knew from high school committed suicide. So, I ask this, why to CWSCM's think that it's beneficial to raise their children sheltered like that?
taken from foxfaith.com
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Well, one of the CWSCM asks me why this particular film is rated PG. I turn around and reach into the mystic drawer that only theater employees may open, and remove the film description list. I read to her what the MPAA film ratings board wrote. "Rated PG for thematic elements, some violence and language." After I recite the line, the CWSCM immediately asks another question. "What's 'thematic elements' mean?". To which I replied "I have absolutely no idea."
Now, at about this time, I start to get slightly peeved. My favorite movie when I was the age of the children which the CWSCM had with them was Child's Play. I obviously share a vastly different opinion on the subject matter than these CWSCM do, and the tone of my voice was already starting to suggest that I was mildly annoyed (although I was trying to be as polite and helpful as I could). The other CWSCM, who until this time had been silent, spoke. "When I saw it the first time", referring to the movie, "there was a part in the end that was a little scary". Now, this juicy tidbit of information came as a shock to me. Not only had this overly protective mother (who shelters her child from PG rated movies) seen the movie but already knew the answers to the questions her annoying CWSCM friend was asking me.
Now, I've seen children who are raised by parents like that. One of my younger brother's acquaintances has a CWSCM. He attempted to spend the night over once, and ended up in tears because he was half a block away from his mother who bans him from playing any games rated above E and from seeing any movies rated anything above PG (The kid was 12 at the time).
Now, what bothers me, is I've seen kids like this before, I went to school with them. They are the kids that even the computer science kids and band nerds beat up for lunch money. They are the ones who get picked on, tormented and bullied throughout school. One of them that I knew from high school committed suicide. So, I ask this, why to CWSCM's think that it's beneficial to raise their children sheltered like that?
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But in the end, it's better for the well-being of one's mind and soul that you simply forget about it altogether. To delve into the motivations of the CWSCM is to surrender yourself to the horrors of the most mediocre, unexciting, selfish, joyless, and hypocritical parenting methods on the planet.
The girl I marry is going to be a wonderful hippie, probably a veterinarian or something. We're going to raise our kids to be un-'merkuhn hedonistic blasphemers.
We're going to raise our kids to be un-'merkuhn hedonistic blasphemers.
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When I have kids, can they come play with your kids?
For all the shielding from violence and nudity.
We sure do love our violence and nudity <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />
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What ya bet this mom took her kids to see "Passion of the Christ"
<a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=NhTc35QgClU" target="_blank">The Passion of the Christ (in 5 seconds)</a>
You know, the kind of eyes-shut-tight women who complain about video games being too violent, movies too sexual and TV too cursory, yet run CNN all day long, either that or the brainwashing jibberish on TBN? Note that she lives in California, so lets not condemn just the south to this- places all over America, LA, Seattle, New York and Las Vegas included, where rampant idiocy and inbred thought patterns rule over all who procreate in the area.
Brings Christianity a bad name. But to them, its the only way to raise a child and have them be 'free from sin', despite the very laws Christians abide by saying that there is no way to live thusly.
There, now we don't have to argue over whether Christianity is the root of all evil or not. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile-fix.gif" />
The funny thing about this type of parents is that they either suceed in making the kid into the perfect anti-drugs and anti-sex poster child or they indulge in both to sickening excesses just out of spite. Talk about polarization.
Isn't "soccer mom" the usual phrase for a CWSCM?
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I think I prefer CWSCM because if you try and pronounce in phoenetically it sounds like "Cow Scum" which is a much more colourful and amusing description.
Isn't "soccer mom" the usual phrase for a CWSCM?
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Not even close. I played soccer for 10 years. Most parents there were as far from religious as you can get, including mine.
When I have kids, can they come play with your kids?
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we should start a commune <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />
it's impossible to shield your child from the world. He's going to find out what it's like eventually, and either go nuts with resentment and rebellion right then, or be a brainwashed time bomb and wait til he's an adult to go nuts - or just slowly take it out on others.
These people are hypocrites. They live in the modern world while rejecting everything it stands for. Now, the Amish, on the other hand - I can respect that. At least they reject everything modern, rather than deciding on a whim what's acceptable and what's not.
Kinda funny that my dads side is all from inner Detroit and ride motorcycles.
(That's all I'm going to say. Bananas are nummy.)
For sure! Or at least found a hippie kids preschool.
My aunt and uncle on my moms side of the family are like this, they even go as far as home-schooling (LOL CREATION SCIENCE!) their kids and never letting them out into real society <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad-fix.gif" />. I mean, they will have to deal with <i>real</i> people at some point, I can only imagine how much it's going to suck for them.
Kinda funny that my dads side is all from inner Detroit and ride motorcycles.
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If your parents ever arrange a family meeting with both sides involved, you are obliged by internet to get a digital camera and upload films of it to youtube. Or maybe you can even charge for it.
[edit]ugh. that sounded inappropriate. :/
<a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=NhTc35QgClU" target="_blank">The Passion of the Christ (in 5 seconds)</a>
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Lol, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8wC48_X0m8&NR" target="_blank">hook in 5 seconds</a>
Lol, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8wC48_X0m8&NR" target="_blank">hook in 5 seconds</a>
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I liked the Beetlejuice one too <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />
Because we know best.
"Whatever floats your boat, long as you leave me out of it"
or Tier 3 Heavy shield.
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My father is a complete realist, buisnessman, and in touch with all things modern/etc.
My mother, is the daughter of a southern baptist preacher.
That said, one of my mother's siblings(a sister), has a daughter and another son on the way.
They raised their daughter on such a harsh vegan diet due to believing eating meat or any animal product was a sin that she actually startted getting an orange skin tone from all the carrot juice rather than milk/etc.
Then, when she was old enough, they homeschooled her, and send her to sunday school. Sunday school & Church are the only places she has human interaction outside of her family, they don't go out to eat even from what I hear.
Her daughter's entire sunday school class was on the same 'diet' as all the mothers came up with it togather.
Her daughter came home the other day and asked 'mommy, why can't I eat cake?' the response, was that it would 'make her sick'.
I leave you to have fun with that little bit of story, and try to figure out just how F***ed up that is.
Like that cake thing, just say, 'Well, you can, but we believe it's a sin.'
Same thing with the homosexuality thing, or really anything sexual.
Or anything having to do with diseases.
God.