feedback for "Basic Instinct"
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This article really resonates with me. I was raised a Quaker, once campaigned against the death penalty, and in general have great difficulty with violence. I still have to avert my eyes whenever violence shows up on the big screen. And I have not yet figured out how to deal with one of my daughter's ever increasing interest in sword play.
And, yet, the idea of someone threatening or hurting any of my children evokes a very strong reaction. I know in my gut and heart that I could rip someone from limb to limb if they ever hurt my child. We don't (and won't ever) have a gun in the house, but if we did and someone intentionally hurt one of my children, it would be very hard to stop me from using it!
posted by : MissyT on 12/19/2006 at 12:29 PM Flag For Abuse
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I haven't even read the entire essay yet, but the subway story reminded me of when I was pregnant in Boston, the residents of which have way less manners and compassion than New Yorkers, I've found. I was rarely offered a seat on the subway, even when obviously pregnant in the summer. Once, I found myself standing alongside a woman carrying a tiny baby and an elderly man leaning on a cane. Drunk, red-faced people in Red Sox gear pretended not to notice.
posted by : jonelle on 12/19/2006 at 5:16 PM Flag For Abuse
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What amazed me after my daughter was born was not how protective I was ( and I was, and am ) but how protective my normally mellow husband became. If anyone even looked at me or the baby sideways he bristled. Fortunately he wan't with me when some idiot in a van almost backed over my daughter and me in a parking lot.
posted by : CaraInExile on 1/16/2007 at 5:12 PM Flag For Abuse
