Posted on 07/29/2008 11:24:09 AM PDT by PercivalWalks
"It's great to be an independent creature. Today you don't need a man any more. In the old days, a baby without marriage and people would put you out. I'm very into feeling this female thing."
From No role for dad, says Minnie (MSN, 7/23/08):
Minnie Driver (pictured) has revealed that she has no plans to include her baby's father at any time during the birth.Driver's viewpoint is similar to that espoused by the "Single Motherhood by Choice" movement:"I'm not married and I don't know if I'll stay with the guy," she told the New York Post.
"My mum and aunt Serena will be with me, as will my best friends, a midwife and a yoga teacher. And I'll be the wailing monster at the centre.
"It's great to be an independent creature. Today you don't need a man any more. In the old days, a baby without marriage and people would put you out. I'm very into feeling this female thing."
She also had an unlikely companion to help her through the early months.
"With this pregnancy I was very sick the first four months. My black Labrador, Bubba, my forever constant loving companion, knew it," Minnie revealed.
"He'd see me lying on the couch. He'd stay with me. He felt for me."
The 38-year-old, who is expecting her first child next month, announced her pregnancy in March on TV, though she has kept mum about the identity of the baby's father - only saying that he's English and in the same business.
"If he wants to come out and talk about it, he's more than welcome to," she said.
"But since he doesn't live his life in the public eye, it's something I want to keep private."
1) She apparently believes that her children do not need a father, even though choosing fatherlessness for her child is the equivalent of saying, "I love my child. That's why I am going to intentionally and unnecessarily create conditions under which the child is far more likely to grow up maladjusted. My child will be more likely to drop out of school, experiment with drugs, commit crimes, or commit suicide. If my child is a girl, she'll be more likely to become pregnant as a teenager. My child will also be less likely to marry and more likely to divorce."
2) Naturally, the man she's with somehow isn't good enough, or there's something wrong with him. This isn't surprising, since there is something wrong with every man, and women are very, very skilled at finding out whatever it is that is wrong. Whatever might be wrong with the woman, we don't discuss. Minnie does sing the praises of her dog, who apparently is a better "loving companion" than her child's father.
3) I love how she refers to the baby's father--"I don't know if I'll stay with the guy." She's about to give birth to his child and he's just some "guy" who she may or may not decide to stay with.
4) If pressed on why she has declined to create a family for her child, Minnie will probably say what most single mothers by choice say--she was unable to find a good guy or the right guy. I find it very hard to believe that an attractive, famous, wealthy actress like Driver couldn't find "a good guy." The problem isn't a lack of "good guys"--the problem is usually that women like Minnie are too critical and picky.
To learn more about the problems with the Single Motherhood by Choice" movement, see my co-authored column Are Single Mothers the 'New American Family?' (World Net Daily, 9/28/06).
Glenn Sacks, www.GlennSacks.com
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Looks like the dad is wrong in that clip.
“The problem isn’t a lack of “good guys”—the problem is usually that women like Minnie are too critical and picky...
No, women like Minnie are just plain stupid.”
No, it’s because she is a mean, stupid B**CH. This is the same woman who smacked a flight attendant with a People Magazine because there was a story in it staying that she and Matt Damon has broken up. Granted Damon didn’t have the courtesy to tell her to her face, but she didn’t have to hit the flight attendant.
She’s about to give birth to his child and he’s just some “guy” who she may or may not decide to stay with.
Another narcissist overpaid diva getting knocked up and decides to make a statement about how liberating it all is and drag the rest of us into her fantasyland.
Sure she can. She has enough money to rent a crew of full time nannies to raise the child for her. Did you really expect her to take time off from her career to care for a child when the world will be at such a loss without her acting abilities?
Interesting how that independence, *female thing* were set aside in order to create the baby in the first place -- apparently she did need a man at some point. Brudder.
Wonder how her Wonderdog will do when the kid needs 9:00, 10:30, 1, 3, and 5 am feedings.
Fathers are handy to have, if for no other reason than they let Mom sleep occasionally. :-)
....and breathtakingly selfish, considering that she appears to want to raise her child without the father, who is not, I’m assuming, a criminal, drug addict, alcoholic, etc. What kind of a mother would actually intentionally deny her child the experience of having a father just so she can get “into feeling this female thing”?
I feel bad for her child for having such a self centered half wit for a mother.
That's what the little people nanny will do. This woman would not get up at those times because she might get dark circles under her eyes.
I've always wondered why people have kids and don't bother to raise them.... If you just hire someone (a nanny, daycare) to take care of them, what's the point to begin with?
Sure, people gotta work. But they don't need to work ALL of the time. :-)
I took my oldest to the playground the other day. There were a couple of other parents there. They all had cellphones attached to the ears and were sitting on the benches outside the playground...basically, they were just their kids' driver. How lousy is that? Where's the fun?
Meanwhile, WBill Jr. and I were rounding up all of the Indians (and Darth Vader, and some monsters...gimme a break, he's not even three....) and figuring out a way to take them to jail. We had a blast, particularly when a real police officer came by and let the boy sit in his car. (The other parents were too busy to notice, or didn't care to...) My boy had a blast, and it was even more fun talking about it before he went to bed that evening.
When the kids turn 18 and disappear, I think those other parents will wonder where the time went. I'll know. And hopefully, my boys and I will have figured out a way to round up Darth Vader by then.
/rant off.
What a stupid b*tch.
They are a dime a dozen like Minnie up here in Toronto. I see them in the pubs at night, drunk and angry.
Not if Mom is nursing. But aside from that, fathers (not to mention husbands) are an extremely positive feature in all kinds of ways.
Embodiment of the liberal lie. It’s all about her and her feelings. Her child be damned if he or she interferes with how she thinks. Thank the Lord the child isn’t being murdered but still sick.
She is just wrong!
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