As a pregnant woman who thoroughly enjoys expressing my opinions loudly and with an audience, I went and signed myself up for a pregnancy and parenting website containing message boards For those of you who don't know, message boards are basically thousands of tiny toilets into which we, the users of the interweb, like to flush our many thoughts and opinions in hopes that someone will actually care enough to respond. The conversations on these boards usually revolve around about ten topics:
1. Complaints about our husbands/significant others.
2. Complaints about our in-laws.
3. Complaints about our families of origin.
4. Complaints about our doctors.
5. Complaints about our bodies.
6. Complaints about pregnant sex or the lack thereof.
7. Complaints about our financial situations.
8. Questions we are afraid to ask our doctors, because we're certain they're snickering at us the second we walk out of the door.
9. Celebratory posts, exclaiming our joy over the penis or lack of penis that we have discovered inhabiting our tiny humans' bodies.
10. "What should I name my baby?" polls, which the poster will obviously ignore when naming said infant.
These are all topics that I have no problem with. Even the laundry list of complaints about every damn thing under the sun is more than OK by me, because frankly, hearing about how much the lives of others suck makes me feel a heck of a lot better about my own!
There is only one post topic that has recently grabbed my goat by its tiny little horns and is refusing to let go: debate topics.
This may seem out of character to those of you who know me, because there is nothing I love more than a good public forum debate. But I ask you this: when did being politically correct become the most important thing in the entire world? When did we begin wrapping our brains in bubble wrap to the extent that scientifically accurate words suddenly become unacceptable to use, in case someone is offended? And when did we begin sheltering ourselves to the extent that reality virtually ceases to exist in public?
So here's what I'm going to do, ladies and gentlemen. I am going to largely remove my abrasive little mind from an excessively moderated arena, and leave it here. This will be a blog that only wearers of the most firmly-attached big girl panties will enjoy. We'll discuss ALL of the topics that have been shut down by silly moderators, and we will only delete comments containing terrible spelling. We will behave like exactly the opinionated, elitist jerks that we are, and we are SO not apologizing.
With love,
Mama Bee
