I can't unhear it
Jan. 24th, 2010 10:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
My mom is into the political use of language too; that is probably where I get it from. Listening to NPR:
"Isn't ridiculous that there are these groups that can call themselves things like Protect Marriage and the media honors that?"
Another one she doesn't like is "suicide bombers". What they are doing, she says, is not about suicide at all. Murder and terrorism, yes, but the fact that the bombers are dying too is not the main thing to be focusing on.
My aunt, who has adopted children, thinks that the word "adopt" has become devalued. Adopt a highway! By picking up some litter a couple of times a year. Adopt a park! Etc.
I was listening today to On the Media on public radio, and they referred to John Edward's "illegitimate child". Strange. Aren't all children legitimate?
Later in the show someone said, "love child." Another strange phrase. Don't we want all children to be love children?
"Isn't ridiculous that there are these groups that can call themselves things like Protect Marriage and the media honors that?"
Another one she doesn't like is "suicide bombers". What they are doing, she says, is not about suicide at all. Murder and terrorism, yes, but the fact that the bombers are dying too is not the main thing to be focusing on.
My aunt, who has adopted children, thinks that the word "adopt" has become devalued. Adopt a highway! By picking up some litter a couple of times a year. Adopt a park! Etc.
I was listening today to On the Media on public radio, and they referred to John Edward's "illegitimate child". Strange. Aren't all children legitimate?
Later in the show someone said, "love child." Another strange phrase. Don't we want all children to be love children?
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Date: 2010-01-25 05:23 am (UTC)And I (being one myself) was nervous for a week about somehow being not a real person.
It was weird. It's not a word I'm particularly fond of.
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Date: 2010-01-25 05:31 am (UTC)I realize now how I have cocooned myself in the world of feminist blogs and LJ/DW, where I am surrounded by these anti-oppression voices-- I go out into the wider world and it is everywhere. I don't understand why John Edwards having a kid outside of marriage is even that big of a scandal.
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Date: 2010-01-25 12:32 pm (UTC)So I guess the big deal is more his lying than anything else - it's John Edwards who made having a kid outside of marriage a much, much bigger deal than it needed to be.
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Date: 2010-01-25 02:38 pm (UTC)Whatever, my parents were in love when they had me. They were married, but does that mean I'm NOT a love child? Eff that, of course I am.
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