Breeder and other words we use to hurt our own.

[Mister Bent]

Originally Posted by Toughy

as to breeder........

I have always used it to denote those with children....that includes straight folk and queer folk. Sometimes it certainly has a 'dig' kind of quality to it. Sometimes it's just shorthand for those whose lives do revolve around children.

There is a huge difference between those of us whose lives do not revolve around children and those of us whose lives revolve around children.

Just to be clear, "breeding" and one's life revolving around children are hardly synonymous. In fact, I think you just utilized a more repugnant use for the term.

In context, you equate the ability to get pregnant with actual parenting, which
1.) invalidates the parenting of non-birth children.
2.) makes the assumption that getting pregnant means choosing also to actively parent.

Neither is logical and I want to think that none of this is what you actually meant. Such is the way of language.

Originally Posted by popcorninthesofa

Mary Mother Of Jesus is a very real and beautiful *Goddess* who has appeared to thousands of witnesses throughout time as The Holy Mother, and The Queen of Peace.

Wow. Really?

[Toughy]

me in this color

Originally Posted by Mister Bent

Just to be clear, "breeding" and one's life revolving around children are hardly synonymous.

I simply stated how I used the term. For me it is about those whose life revolves around children.

you use it however you want.


In fact, I think you just utilized a more repugnant use for the term.

You are entitled to your opinion

In context, you equate the ability to get pregnant with actual parenting, which
1.) invalidates the parenting of non-birth children.
2.) makes the assumption that getting pregnant means choosing also to actively parent.

I did not say any of this. You might trying reading what I said again.

Neither is logical and I want to think that none of this is what you actually meant. Such is the way of language.


You're the one who made up that interpretation. You own it, not me.

[Mister Bent]

Originally Posted by June

Mr. Bent? Will you clarify your "Wow, really?" comment please? Because it looks to me like it was unecessarily derisive. It appeared that Popcorn was expressing a personal opinion in response to Toughy's post with regards to how they feel/think about St. Mary.

June (Asking a question as a moderator)

I think my comment, which was expressing surprise (we can do that here, yes?), speaks for itself.

Should I clarify further based upon the original post, or the now edited version which has changed "thousands" (to which I was expressing said surprise) to "many, many" (considerable less quantifiable)?

Or should I ask, more precisely, for clarity on the relevance of someone expressing their Judeo-Christian beliefs in a thread discussing the hurtfulness of the term "breeders?"

[Mister Bent]

Originally Posted by June

Yeah, I think it might have been a good first step to ask what the context was, if you were sincerely interested.

Sure, I can do that in the future, especially when the post itself seems out of context to the thread.