MamaBeast
MamaBeast
MamaBeast

Thank you!

I did! My family is crazy but fun. I was placed as a newborn, so the odds were in my favor.
But all someone has to do to see adoption stigma is watch the first season of Teen Mom about Caitlyn & Tyler & see how their parents reacted to them placing Carly. There are a lot more adopted kids than most people know. The OP

I really think our culture still does stigmatize adoption. I've seen this in friends' families where there was a teen mom. Giving the baby up for adoption is seen as discarding the child or not wanting it, instead of seeing adoption as the difficult and selfless gift it often is.

And I was talking about the stigma against placing a child for adoption & adopting, not adoptees. You think there are over 100,000 children waiting to be adopted (not fosters) in the US alone because people are so open & accepting? You seem fairly ignorant on the subject. I am not. Have a good night.

The fact that 'a lot of black people are nannies' does NOT give you the right to treat black parents as nannies, or even to make any assumptions along those lines.

one of my family's most beloved family stories is that of "the giant blue turd." my then five year-old uncle ate a cookie monster cookie (which was 95%blue icing) before visiting my mom's new apartment. he then deposited said blue turd in the toilet and would allow no one to flush it until my mom had seen. it was a

I am surprised at how early kids learn the middle finger.

Mine went through a FUCKING NUTS (with a scream) phase because one of neighbours got hit in the nuts and screamed something about his fucking nuts. The kid thought it was hilarious and shrieked FUCKING NUTS randomly. Usually at the worst possible time.

The wife (white) of my boyfriend's cousin (Indian) was once asked this about her son (whose skin color is closer to his dad's):

Oh? Are you diabetic? Do you know exactly how it works? I've never passed out, and I've been diabetic for 31 years, but I know it's always a possibility. I have to have my doctor sign a letter for the DMV every fucking year to say that I am capable of driving, and if my doctor says I'm fine, YOU CAN GO FUCK

When I first read that, I became so angry at what was said to you and angry for you. I have to commend you for taking the time to work through with your friend his flawed and racist thinking. Clearly, he is someone to you that is worth it, worth investing in, and the outcome benefited you both.

I kind of want it...but not for branding steaks. I just want to wander around branding any- and everything I can possibly brand. Steaks, of course. But also: bell peppers. trees. walls. the sides of decorative gourds. the arms of enemies. my dog's haunches, in case he gets lost. etc.

For some reason it seems that the general public takes better to suggestions that they should pay more than that someone really rich should be asked to become slightly less rich. People identify with the rich more than they identify with themselves.

You don't see anything wrong with asking a random Asian man if he is Japanese? Really? You really can't see how having some random stranger ask him that question wouldn't be a bit odd and off-putting?

Thank you! See, that is what I feel is is missing from this discussion - ways to be respectful when learning more about people.

As a mixed-race woman from Hawaii now living in white dominant-city, these kinds of questions are the story of my life. But as I've gotten older, I've come to the following conclusions:

I like the idea and I'm all for it; it does seem to me that they're saying "Just so's you know, we might have to RAISE PRICES a little bit to support these people, you know, it'll COST YOU CUSTOMERS a little more", which, to my ears, translates at least partially to "... it'll be a cold day in Bangladash before we let

Hitler does deserve to starve to death, but for other reasons, not for cheap t-shirts.

Fine with this. Wealth inequality gets my hackles up. Now. Let's raise our minimum wage here, too.

Well good. No one should starve so I can have a $5 t-shirt.