Here's s new twist on two old themes: One, the theme of
"children-as-status-symbol" and two, the theme of
"gays-with-babies-are-conservative."
To give you a fair warning, both drive me nuts.
Anyone
who thinks a child is a status symbol (for anyone besides a
multiple-nanny-employing movie star, that is) does not have children.
Much as I'd love to dress my kids in designer clothes and parade them
down Michigan Avenue on a boutique shopping spree, this just doesn't
work in real life, where kids spit up, diapers blow out, potty training
takes the better part of a year and I don't have time to separate my
darks from my whites from my pastels when I try to tackle the monster
laundry pile in the corner of my room.
I think this kids-as-status-symbol thing is a misunderstanding of
Read More...
