Riddle Me This
Sep. 7th, 2007 07:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cinema_babeA 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.
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.
