Clementine and her friend, Amelia, got into one of their infamous, face-to-face screaming matches this morning. Fortunately, this time I had a camera on hand and caught it on video. The disagreement had to do with how many mommies someone could have. Clementine was adamant that a person could only have one mommy. Amelia, citing the family of a friend of hers, kept saying two… Afterward, I tried to explain that they were both right; biologically speaking, a person can only have one mommy, however, there are instances where two women raise a child. And, when that’s the case, it’s possible that both women could be called “mommy.” These are the little challenges that make modern parenting so much fun.
As long as we’re on the subject, I was talking with a young friend last night who is getting ready to go off to Oberlin. We were talking about dorm assignments and the like, and she mentioned that there were “about ten” choices to choose from in the “sexual orientation” part of the housing application. She also said that you had to indicate whether or not you would mind sharing your room with someone who identified themselves as transgender. (They apparently have a transgender residential program.) I was wondering this morning whether Oberlin was unique in addressing transgender students in this way, and decided to look online. The first thing I stumbled across this conservative article containing the following clip:
…Oberlin embodies a far-Left paradise of agitation, Marxist activism and sexual licentiousness. It is, in short, a model of the Left’s paradise. It is specifically for this reason that it resembles most traditional Americans’ version of Hell.
It also said that Oberlin “indulges in hating whitey.”
However hard we think it is to be a parent these days, it’s got to be ten times as hard to be a kid.
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I think Clementine can take that kid…
That is a great video and the best line:
“Hey…a bumble bee!”
I’m going to use “hey, a bumblebee” from now on whenever I want to get out of a fight.
After a while, it becomes kind of mantra-like. The bee kind of ruins everything.
But does the bumble bee hate whitey?
I thought I was watching “Hardball” but then several seconds went by without Chris Matthews interrupting.
We have special showers for the transsexuals at Ave Maria.
As one “whitey” who might be said to have indulged
while at Oberlin, I can attest to the fact that what happened in Oberlin stayed in Oberlin.
A paradise it was — Hell it was not. ;)
I learned to hate whitey by watching PBS.
Cleo! How can you hate Whitey!? Whitey is the best! I love Whitey’s! It’s been a Quad Cities tradition since 1933.
http://www.whiteysicecream.com
I go to oberlin, and i LOVE hating Whitey.
In all seriousness, Oberlin is probably the most sexually progressive college anywhere. Just google ‘tent of consent’ or perhaps ‘drag ball’. Its pretty great.