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To: steve-b

She's wrong too, there is no "Mother Right".
There's the "Mother Privilege", that the rest of us almost always grant to a mother when we see her struggling along with infants in tow, baby carriage, etc. That's no more a "right" than getting out of the way for somebody carrying an obviously heavy and uncomfortable package, or letting somebody who is obviously old and tired have a seat on the bus. The package guy and the old lady don't have a RIGHT to be deferred to, but civillized people do it, because hey, there but for the grace of God go I (or, in the case of the old lady, whither there est all of us, if we're lucky).

It's not a matter of rights.
It's called "People being nice and compassionate".
Jeez.


11 posted on 11/28/2006 10:18:40 AM PST by Vicomte13 (Aure entuluva.)
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To: Vicomte13
There's the "Mother Privilege", that the rest of us almost always grant to a mother when we see her struggling along with infants in tow, baby carriage, etc. That's no more a "right" than getting out of the way for somebody carrying an obviously heavy and uncomfortable package, or letting somebody who is obviously old and tired have a seat on the bus. The package guy and the old lady don't have a RIGHT to be deferred to, but civillized people do it, because hey, there but for the grace of God go I (or, in the case of the old lady, whither there est all of us, if we're lucky).

Well said! My mother always just called it, "being nice."

25 posted on 11/28/2006 10:25:25 AM PST by Hetty_Fauxvert (Kelo must GO!! ..... http://sonoma-moderate.blogspot.com/)
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To: Vicomte13

Mother privilege - well put!


27 posted on 11/28/2006 10:25:35 AM PST by timsbella (Mark Steyn for Prime Minister of Canada! (Steve's won my vote in the meantime))
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To: Vicomte13

It's called "People being nice and compassionate".

And thank God this idea is coming back by the offspring of the "me generation" as they fade into the sunset.


50 posted on 11/28/2006 10:36:13 AM PST by lowbuck (The Blue Card (US Passport). . . Don't leave home without it!)
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To: Vicomte13

Good post. And absolutely correct.


101 posted on 11/28/2006 11:04:43 AM PST by Southerngl
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