Did I seriously read this right? I will post a link in the SWH but this woman, Charlotte Allen, has some very bad ideas about the Sandy Hook shooting.
She claims that if there were men around then there wouldn't be as many people killed (because the female principal throwing her body at the killer wasn't a brave attempt to stop the Lanza??)
Also, that parents of "sick children" (aka children with mental disabilities) need to be better parents??? and quit "enabling" them.... what does she mean by this? Can someone with a "sick child" please explain how this isn't a total stab at women everywhere who are doing their best for their child? (although I think the mom in this situation is a total wacko herself... but I digress...)
So back to my question, is my brain on fire or did I seriously read that?
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/335996/newtown-ans...#
Thank you ladies for reminding me just to ignore people with this kind of attitude. It just gives me a headache to hear someone say such backwards (to me) things. I think I was also stressed out yesterday so this just set me off even more.
I'm not even going to read the article - it's preposterous. She's been watching too many Die Hard movies.
It's just like people who don't have any problem kids who think they know it all and refuse to acknowledge that the solution to huge problems aren't simple. There are people like that on MP too, KR.
Dawn
Consider the source. The National Review is hardly a source of rational, balanced thought.
There are people that are totally screwed up. Don't listen to them.
Please, please, can we stop reposting the crazy? What benefit does it have?
I'm not going to read, I don't justify insanity by taking part.
I encourage you to do the same.
I'm the mother to an amazing, beautiful, sweet, intelligent, funny, silly, challenging autistic daughter.
First off, it's not unusual for there to still be chauvinistic attitudes among assholes.
Secondly, the entire Refrigerator Mom Theory when it came to mothers and their offspring (the idea that mental illness, neurological disorders, behavioral disorders, personality disorders are caused by an emotionally "cold" mother) went out the window and was debunked decades ago.
Thirdly, it's far too early to call Nancy Lanza a wacko. No one in the public knows enough information to make the sort of judgment.
I'm not going to click that link. I don't feel like rolling my eyes any harder than I already have today. It's given me a headache.
When things happen that are extremely painful and difficult for us to comprehend people seek answers that help them feel back in control. to find those answers they have to find simplistic issues to identify as "the problem". Then, they want to address, even those simplistic issues, in soundbites rather than the lengthy and nuanced dissertations they actually need.
I found this article to be pretty astonishing in her capacity to offend just about everyone all in one long winded diatribe.
We need a gentle nuanced thoughtful discussion.
I don't listen to whackos.
Why even ponder about their whacked out ideology?
Your brain isn't on fire, but like Dawn, I am not going to look. I'm not going to court the possibility of getting pissed off again.
The sad fact of the matter is that we all want immediate solutions and someone to blame. Had Adam Lanza stayed alive, as did James Holmes (the assailant in the Aurora CO tragedy this summer), people would have someone to vilify and point the finger to. I think there is a whole group of people who are already angry, already incited, and this is a trigger for them to spout some seriously careless and hateful invective at everyone else.
Let's not let them win. Let's stop giving those who are blaming one and all our time and our energy. I'm sick to death of the foul, disgusting blame that's being cast around. It only incites further hate and separation when we need to be coming together as a solution-oriented society. Those who are spouting their skewed views have carried these views around long before the Sandy Hook tragedy-- this has just popped their cork.
At a party, I walk away when assholes start talking like this. It works well. They don't have to shut up, but I don't have to listen.
People are stressed.
The longer the stress goes on, the wackier the reasoning and explanations and proposed solutions get.
It was similar after 9/11.
When we were living with/through the Beltway Sniper, we had it again.
It's official.
We feel terrorized.
There's no making sense of it.
It's time for me to turn the news off and stop reading about it for awhile.
You can't fight crazy. Don't try.
I don't know but I wonder if the killer was in treatment? I mean, if my kid NEVER talked, was a complete weirdo, etc. Therapy, something? Could you really have a kid THAT out of it (according to the reports) and not have him in intensive treatment? It's just not normal at all. There is socially awkward, and then there is just off the charts withdrawn.
Some teacher even said the killer felt no physical or emotional pain. How do they KNOW? If that was true (there is a rare condition for not feeling physical pain) wouldn't he have been under the care of someone? It's a very dangerous disorder b/c you can be hurt and not know it.
You aren't the only one:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2012/12/19/the_stupides...
