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full_metal_ox ([personal profile] full_metal_ox) wrote in [community profile] agonyaunt 2024-07-21 02:48 am (UTC)

There is a werid pseudo-logic some parents use, where they take any and every thing a child does as a Deliberate Defiant Decision.

Good thing Rita didn’t get diagnosed with Oppositional Defiant Disorder (AKA Fast Track To The Prison-Industrial Complex)—-although that might have been a bit too disgraceful for the sort of parents implied.

For example my father once told me proudly how when I was a baby he decided to not remove me from the church service when I cried because I'd learn I could leave the church service whenever I wanted. Mind you I was a baby. And I'm sure everyone else in church enjoyed hearing me cry. *eyeroll*

It sounds as if your father would agree with Mike Warnke’s(1) take on the subject of people disturbed by babies crying in church: “You know what that sound means? It means people are having their babies and taking them to church!

(1) A Midwest-based evangelist/comedian whose performances consisted of ripping off the cleaner bits of George Carlin’s and Bill Cosby’s routines before abruptly Mood Whiplashing into Satanic Panic horror stories—-sacrificial dead babies galore were involved—-and passing the collection plate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Warnke


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