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You must expect them to be with some pretty shallow women.
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Yeah, I'd say that largely describes girls age 16-25. Human beings in general, perhaps.
Maybe that describes people that you chose to hang around with during that time, but perhaps I had better taste in friends than you.
I saw through shallow people a mile away and didn't give them the time of day. I still don't understand why you want to encourage your children to conform to everyone else's idea of what's "normal".
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By this logic, we should perform surgery on or "treat" all children who look "different". Liposuction on the fat ones, breast augmentation for the flat-chested/overdeveloped ones, hormones for the short boys/tall girls, nose jobs for the Jewish and Italian kids, eyelid jobs for the Asian kids, etc. etc...
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Plenty of teenagers do those things with their parents blessing anyway.
Um, they don't "fix" asian childrens' eyelids when they are infants, though, do they?
The choice to have these unfortunate surgeries to look more WASP is up to the individual getting the surgery, isn't it?
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You don't seem critical of braces to straighten only barely-crooked teeth, or parent-sanctioned tanning, or even girls stuffing their bras.
Just because I didn't mention them doesn't mean I approve.
Remember, we are talking about surgery.
Would you approve of some parents of a infant who's eyelids looked "too asian" getting cosmetic surgery to make them appear more "normal" in America?
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Despite that these are as socially-driven "corrections" as anything listed above.
Non-surgical, temporary "enhancements", sone with the free informed choice of the enhanced, is entirely different from circumcision of infants.
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Quite frankly, if you're odd or different in high school, you get dumped with shit that lasts you most of your life. I went through that. I imagine that most of us here did, too.
Yep, that's true.
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Why would I wish that on my kid? Why would I burden a son with one more reason to get picked on in an already stressful evironment?
Because you can't do anything about his getting picked on. It's going to happen over a bunch of other things.
You seem to want to teach him that most women are shallow, but he has to conform to their shallow expectations anyway.
Wouldn't it be better to teach him to recognize quality in people and to avoid those who are shallow and concerned with the superficial?
[This message has been edited by schrafinator, 08-06-2003]