Riddle Me This

[cinema_babe]

A white, middle class, college educated, woman leaves her child in a hot car for 8 hours and the child dies. During her interrogation, she said she was a bad mother. The policeman assured her she wasn't. The news interviewed a friend of hers and the friend said, "She's just like you, she's just like me...."

Uh, no she isn't.

If she had been a pink collar worker who went to work at her job plant where she was a janitor and left her child in a hot car to die would the police had reacted in the same way?

ETA:I forgot this but several years ago a single mother who worked at Woodbridge center mall lost her child for a few days because she had put her to sleep in the back of a dark car. She had to work but still couldn't afford child care. No one reassured her that she was a good mother. (I don't really agree with this either.

Did I mention that this same woman, an assistant principal, had apparently done this before with her other child. The first time the child survived. Nope, she's not like anyone I know.

And while I'm at it a bit of humor. Some college girl got kicked off of a plane because they told her her outfit was inappropriate for a "family flight". (Okay I hate that phrasing but I'm going somewhere here.) The showed her outfit on TV and the top was fine but the skirt was rather short. She kept insisting her outfit was okay and she wasn't overexposed. She stood up. She sat down.

Let me just say this: it's a good thing she was wearing panties. I guess I can see why the airline berated her.

Comments

[catwithbell.livejournal.com]

Perhaps she is just like her friend.
A complete 'tard.

[onecrazymother.livejournal.com]

I was reading about that, too. This happens more often than you might think --- in that I hear reports in the news.

I was pondering whether anyone has done any studies regarding attachment parenting or exclusive breastfeeding, and such drastic, tragic careless neglect. (There's a difference between chronic, you have to know you're doing it, neglect, and an acute mistake, such as forgetting your child.)

When pregnant for nine months, and then actively birthing, and then carrying the baby on my body for months on end, nursing very frequently, and sleeping with the baby's heart next to mine, night after night... I found it actively difficult to be in the world *without* my baby. He was a part of my being.

I'm horrified and saddened by such cases, and I don't think it means the woman is a bad mother, or stupid. What women are asked to do in this country is ludicrous. Take care of a baby 15 hours a day, coordinate childcare and do other, unrelated work another 9 hours a day. This is ridiculous, and yet it is considered normal. Babies are not on that sort of schedule, and new moms are half of mom-baby dyads.

You also have to factor in the sleep deprivation. As a stay at home mom, if we've had a hard night, I can just cancel the day's activities and stay home, try to nap...but if you have a boss to answer to, that's not possible.

[onecrazymother.livejournal.com]

oh, and as to the bias, I agree. Time and time again, people are not judged the same.

[cinema-babe.livejournal.com]

A pros pro of nothing, I *adore* that icon! Where did you get that from?

[onecrazymother.livejournal.com]

a weemee site. I saw one on raencloud's profile page. They are very fun.

[ishitpinecones.livejournal.com]

If she had been a pink collar worker who went to work at her job plant where she was a janitor and left her child in a hot car to die would the police had reacted in the same way?

No. I can tell you that right now.

I have to admit

[silvester10528.livejournal.com]

I have done similar..
Left three kids sitting in a tan car with the windows down while I watched from the door to a computer store so that my (then) wife would no be BS'd about a repair (even though her knowledge was on par with the tech).

After the police came over and verbally bitch slapped me, I never did it again!!! And have always regretted it since!


As for the Hooters hoochy:
I saw er standing in the news this morning and the skirt was SHORT!
Wish I had gotten to see the sitting, I'm in dire need of new porn these days!