I am Jack's Supreme Irritation

[sevendeadlyfun]

Actually, it's my supreme irritation but Jack has more of the market share for this sort of thing. I had to get my ID renewed today and there was a woman's magazine in the waiting room. There are reasons I don't read these things.

1.) I froth with transcendent rage whenever stupid advice is handed out. These magazines are full of stupid advice, involving validating the feelings of people too young to drive cars. Does anyone remember when being a parent didn't involve psychobabble like validation? I know that my mother, if told to validate my feelings while reiterating standards of "appropriate" behavior, would have wet herself laughing. Nowadays, anything short of unconditional approval is considered child abuse.

1A.) Advice person? Eleven year olds do indeed know that lying is wrong and so, yes, there should be a "consequence" for that type of behavior. I'd say punishment, but I'm sure you'd suffer apoplectic horrors and expire. Where did you get your degree, clown college? Please to be re-reading your juvenile psychology text,kthxbai...

2.) I don't want to look like whatever size -3 celebrity is currently in vogue. Stop telling me how to "get their look". Better advice would be how to achieve your own personal sense of style without bankrupting your family. Even better advice? Where a woman old enough to remember Sassy Magazine but young enough to still get carded can find non-hoochie, non-granny clothes. There's no freaking middle ground!

3.) You! The columnist discussing single parenting and dating? C'mere...If your dating goal is to find your daughter a daddy? YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG. Yes, he will be your child's step-parent. But he's going to be YOUR husband. Would it kill you to actually remember that part and discuss it, instead of going on endlessly about how shitty it is that men don't want to talk about your kid ON THE FIRST DATE? People like you make it hard for the rest of us and speaking as a former single parent, it is hard enough thankyouverymuch.

See? This is why I should just learn to watch the waiting room television. I miss Sassy.

Comments

[anxiety-junkie.livejournal.com]

My sister in law is one of these new parents that don't punish their kids; she has two preteen boys and they are absolute monsters. I told my husband up front that if we ever go to visit them (they live in Houston), and they do something to piss me off, they are going over my knee for a good walloping, no matter how she feels about it.

Man, to hear me talk you'd think I actually had kids or something. *gigglesnort*

[dark-hunterjenn.livejournal.com]

I feel the need to tell you how much I love you and your attitude! I feel like going on a screaming rampage now days when people let their kids run wild. I want to walk up to that mother (or father) in the store, whose kid yelling in their face and kicking cause it didn't get its way and just reach over and pop the child on the butt. A few times. I was not beaten, but I knew dang well what would happen if I carried on like that in public, and so does my son now. Kids need discipline, they need guidance, otherwise they turn into little monsters who think the world owes them. We live in a world where little Johnny needs some hugs when he is ripping up the grocery isles and knocking things off the shelf, cause he must be upset about something. Give me a break. As for single parents and dating, you need to know the man for what he is and what he will mean to you first, cause the kid will pick up on that. Plus you will have to wake up beside this man for (hopefully) the rest of your life, your kid won't.

Sorry for the long post, but I really like it when I can find people with opinions like yours in this day and age.

[hello-spikey.livejournal.com]

1. Women's magazines aren't for us. They're for, like, girls. pfft.

1A. As my dad would say, "Some people don't get beat enough as children."

2. My favorite? Big articles on "OMG! This outfit is under $100!!" And I'm like, who spends $99 on ONE outfit??? That includes jeans??? Do they not have Sears in their world?

2A. Why do I immediately start thinking of HoochieGrannie dresses? *shakes head*

3. I think most of my dad's girlfriends found out he was a single parent when he brought them home the first time - judging by the shocked, worried, cat-hit-by-water looks we got from some of them... ;)
but still, yeah, first date material? Not so much!

[sevendeadlyfun.livejournal.com]

Well, I do have kids and I'm just as bad (clearly!). ICON LOVE! :)

[sevendeadlyfun.livejournal.com]

LoL...long post appreciated, actually. I love hearing from other people, regardless of whether or not they agree with me. But when they agree with me? It's even better! :)

[anxiety-junkie.livejournal.com]

You can have it if you want, I made it. *g*

I stole the quote from 'Xander's Kittens Have Kittens' by Splurgie. *blushes*

[sevendeadlyfun.livejournal.com]

1.) Agreed. Except for Sassy Magazine. That was a magazine for us non-girls with girl parts. We need magazines for us. I think they'd probably have to be kept behind the counter, though...

2.) Because you're a Mary-Sue and Mary-Sues always think HoochieGrannie. It's written in the Mary-Sue code...

3.) First dates are for blowjobs. Of course, YMMV... :P

[sevendeadlyfun.livejournal.com]

Will have to steal when I get home. I'm on my mother-in-law's computer. Somehow I don't think she'd appreciate me cluttering it up! :)

That's a nice fic...a little much for me, but I still enjoyed it!