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[Mercy]

Some of you may remember a couple of years ago when I posted of an encounter I had with a woman over her toddler locked in an SUV. It was a typical summer day here on the edge of Vulcan's penis with temperatures breaking one hundred in the shade. I watched the SUV for over ten minutes while K. was in the store, twice entering the shop myself to broadcast that there was a child in distress in the parking lot and the cops were about to be called. After my second announcement, the mum wandered out of the store just in time to stop me as I was dialing up our local police. She then proceeded to tear into me for questioning her parenting ability and not minding my own business. My parting words to her, "Dead babies are everybody's business."


All arguements over global warming aside, summer is hot in most places. Fifteen children have already died this year from being left in hot cars and summer ihas barely begun to heat up. Do not be afraid to speak up. I was prepared to bust out the self-absorbed bint's window if the child had looked lethargic or no one had shown up for the child in the next ten minutes but then I am not exactly meek in such situations. Anyone can call the police, though, and should if they find themselves witnessing a similar situation. Better some pissed off parent has to talk to police then the coroner.

[Glenn the Great]

I know a few mothers in real life who will not accept even the slightest constructive criticism, from anyone, on their parenting skills.

It seems that to them, a mother's natural instinct is a sacred and infallible thing, therefore to question any part of it is just a veiled way of saying "You're a bad mother!"

After hearing variations of that logic from 3 older women, it sort of surprised me to hear it come from the mouth of a 4th just a week after she gave birth to her first baby.

Are women, mothers especially, irrational creatures driven by emotion and hormones? I'll hazard a guess and say that yeah, they are.

[Majora]

Why must you cockblock natural selection. :|

[Beldaran]

"Dead babies are everybody's business."

Roe v. Wade

[Chris Miller]

I say, if the parent's nowhere to be seen, see if there's a cop around. If not, break one of the windows. It's a justifiable action. A window can be replaced. The cops around here have done that in the past.

[Glenn the Great]

I say, if the parent's nowhere to be seen, see if there's a cop around. If not, break one of the windows. It's a justifiable action. A window can be replaced. The cops around here have done that in the past.

This. If the sound of glass breaking doesn't grab someone's attention, the sound of the panicked baby crying from inside the car surely will!

[ctrl-alt-delete]

I prefer using the moms head to break out the glass.

[mrz84]

Why must the children suffer because their parents have no common sense? I sometimes fear for the future of the world (not just out country) because of stuff like this. I know not eveybody is like this, but seriously. Don't leave your kid out in triple digit heat for whatever reason (most of which are probably selfish), you're just asking for a visit from child services.

[Mercy]

Why must you cockblock natural selection. :|

I could not help myself. I was more focused on pissing off whomever thought it was a good idea to leave their toddler in a glass and steel box at the height of summer.

Are women, mothers especially, irrational creatures driven by emotion and hormones?

Glenn, you are correct. Sort of. There is also this whole psychological ideology of the mother figure. The mother figure is inviolate; she gives life and rears & protects until her charges reach maturity. Our own mothers (or other matriarchs if applicable) were our basis of understanding the world. In most cases they were infallible, usually because they told us they were, and as children we usually believed this down to our bones even when we rightly or wrongly speculated otherwise. We may figure out that our matriarchs are only human by the time we have our own kiddums but we often reach back to the tyranny that is motherhood for dealing with our own brood. Problems arise when the despotic types have to take their parenting style outside their own borders and they try to hold onto their illusions of absolute authoritarianism. They over-compensate. Some to the extent of a North Korean dictator. So long as they are only inflicting their whims on their own we tolerate it to an extent short of war crimes because we would not want anyone telling us how to raise our families, amiright? Those women who were not raised by mothers/matriarchs or were raised by bad sorts (perceived or otherwise) often feel their lack of a good mother figure makes them more aware of the need for and instincts of the mother figure. That is a short version of the long answer.

The short answer, power corrupts.

Bel', cute but Roe V. Wade was about unborn babies, not dead babies.

[Beldaran]

Roe V. Wade was about unborn babies, not dead babies.

Roe V. Wade was about living babies being turned into dead babies by women who think their vaginas are so magical that being inside of one means your life doesn't count.