Last night, I was at one of my favorite haunts for a sandwich when I saw the sort of sight that makes for amusing blog fodder. After me and my friend placed our orders at the register, we went to find a booth to sit down when I saw a thirty-ish black woman resting her laurels by the window. Next to her was her kindergarten-aged daughter, leafing through a copy of Metroland. Yes, THAT Metroland, “The Alternative Newsweekly of New York’s Capital Region,” featuring racy ads for strip clubs, graphic personals ads, four-letter words, and Dan Savage’s “Savage Love” column.
I said nothing. Nothing surprises or shocks me anymore. After we ate and left, though (that was a damn good panini), my friend piped up incredulously, “Ferdinand, did you see that woman by the ATM letting her daughter read Metroland? Can you BELIEVE that?” I sighed and replied that yeah, I saw it, and that some people shouldn’t be allowed to have kids. What else is new?
Speaking of child abuse, Lawrence Auster has a post up on the most ridiculous names that low-class blacks (and some low-class whites) give their children. The worst name I’ve ever heard a stupid mother saddling her newborn with? Years ago, back when I still lived in Syracuse, I knew a white teen chick from the nearby public high school who christened her out-of-wedlock daughter “Vagina.” Why? She thought it sounded pretty.
The lumpenproles will be the doom of us all.
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Worst name ever: Latrina.
Stuff like naming your kid “Vagina” makes it very, very hard to have libertarian sentiments about white trash and their kids…
Yet they could vote, if they wanted to.
Nothing shocks me anymore when it comes to other people and their children. My husband and I know a couple who make themselves out to be a strong Christian family who sheltering their children from everything harmful in the world. Despite the persona, they allow their children (all age 6 and under) to play rated M video games and to watch *anything* they would like to on television, including “Penn and Teller”, which the children were watching the last time my husband stopped by their home. Such things used to shock me, but no more.
I am still a wee bit shocked about how many people do not read to their children and do not eat dinner around the table as a family though. This is so “normal” to me that I thought it would be for everybody else too. Not doing both of these seems dysfunctional. Silly me for thinking this way I guess.
Yeah, I experienced the same thing in Bombers. A hipster (don’t get me started on those) with what looked like her little sister was letting her read the mteroland. Disgusting.
Re: Auster’s post:
I think some of the names with strange pronunciations can also be a regional thing as well as cultural.
I’ve known a woman named Jeni (she pronounced it “Jenna”) and her husband Alex (they pronounced it “Ellick”).
Both from rural Georgia.
Try ‘shithead’ but pronounced shateed.
Well at least the little girl was reading. Oh remember the little girl is a nam so she wasjust looking at the pictures.
http://youknowyoudeadazzwrong.blogspot.com/2009/12/episode-5776-we-got-cake.html
Um..I’m still shocked, all of the time…by most people. Funny and thank you. Found this at 2am and very much splendid. Perhaps due to my three glasses of red, perhaps due to your luster with words, who knows….?
Worst name given to a black child by a black parent ever: “Meconium.”
Look it up.
She thought it sounded pretty.
My brother-in-law witnessed this on his inner-city rotation as a resident.
In my country, gypsies give ridiculous name to their children, like: the Judge, Mercedesa, JuanCarlosFranciscoManuelCasanova, BradPit (in one word), Greencard, Citizen, Bruzli (sounds like Bruce Lee), Superman, Chocolate, Rexona, Palmolive, Shining, Argentina and so on..
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