Posted on 01/31/2015 6:27:01 AM PST by DWW1990
I don’t like the two weeks between the end of the NFL conference championship games and the Super Bowl. Two weeks is far too long for today’s sports media to keep my attention while talking about only two teams. In this case, it’s two teams about which I couldn’t care less. If only they both could lose.
Given this much time to cover one sporting event, the media coverage frequently devolves into witless trivial minutia about things like who can make the best crude joke while talking about deflated footballs, or what line will Marshawn Lynch next use when he doesn’t talk to the media. Nevertheless, during this football purgatory, while driving, I still surf by the sports talk programs on the radio.
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The kid might not mind, but the baby-mama might.
That is like saying you won’t be there for your cancer-ridden wife at her next oncology results appointment, which could be bad news.
You do your best to support your alleged loved ones.
As far as Sherman - if his GF doesn’t mind and it’s not really happening, and he DOES actually work in this - it’s OK. At least he’s not some damn beer-drinking fool who thinks sitting his !#@ down at the TV for “his team” on which Sherman plays is the end-all be-all of his life.
ROFL, I like that. ;-)
He’s not married to her? And they’re making a big deal about his not being in the DR?
Holy crap!!
“What did women do all those years before men were allowed in the delivery room?”
Different.
They may not have been “allowed”, but they were certainly allowed right outside. (Oh and that situation with hospitals didn’t exist much until the ‘40s/’50s, very brief time. Mostly it was home.) They could be there and ready if something happened - like the baby’s or mother’s death/dying. Yes, it did happen, plenty.
Oh no; you know it’s OK to @$!QR$@$ around swing your thing and have lots of baby-mamas.
Nope, we are totally warped.
With due respect, your analogy is absurd and your conclusions are wrong - and you ignore all the wives and the kids of his teammates and coaches who will be negatively impacted by this simple practice in the feminization of men.
Yes, it’s better if there is no conflict - but any major step in a man’s career where his presence is necessary is far more important in the long run than anything he can do in the delivery room.
So are you liberal, or just chickified.....
You are exactly right. Furthermore, if he doesn't play and the Hawks lose, when if he had played he might have made a difference, he can, for the rest of his life, be known as the guy who let his team down.
If that is the case, how can he be trusted for any job on any team.
I also agree with other posts. That is marry the woman and give the baby a name, now.
Yes, it did happen, but much less so today.
Your points are taken, but mine was that sometimes daddy has a responsibility to be elsewhere at the time of the birth. This is one of those times.
I don't know how many here have actually done it, but to deliver your child, with all the chaos, pain, and mechanics of just dealing with it, there is a moment in that glow of relief after the birth in which you get to hold your child in your arms and meet as two humans before G_d for the first time. It's unforgettable. It's that moment in which you know how far you'd go to protect that child that's yours, you'd never let her go, you'd never harm her, and therefore never divorce the mother, who went through that pain and exhaustion. There is an admiration for her, the courage, and love that it takes to endure it. That, process, and that moment bonds a family.
Even if that moment of contact happens after the actual birth (which it did for me), there is a continuity that feeds it because of presence at the birth, the coaching, the decisions made, even the two-year-old who wipes the sweat from mommy's face. It is a process not to be discounted that could have a great deal to do with whether Mr. Sherman becomes eventually Mr. Right.
I hope he does.
It is, I think worthy of note that Carry_Okie has penned one of the best descriptions of “Birth and the Father” I have read.
Having said that, the culture of the Urban Feral is such that they respond differently.
The large majority of the experiences which acculturated Americans can draw upon to arrive at the birth experience bonding Carry_Okie described are not part of Urban Feral culture.
In this life experience, as in so many others, Culture IS Determinative.
I had to turn off Hannity yesterday; he wouldn’t stop discussing that subject—the two are not even married. There are more important things to discuss than glamorizing the latest slam at marriage.
You give me little respect, with that final shot.
It is not absurd, except that at the moment, the cancer patient may not be in great pain or dying right then.
If you actually paid any attention to my postings here, and not jump to conclusions on 1 point you were arguing, you would see that I am OK with Sherman playing in the SB. At least, it is his job. And could definitely be a fun thing for him, an honor. Weighed against the likelihood of her a) going into labor and actually having the baby and b) having any real problems, he should be fine to go play.
I am a woman, so yes, I guess I am chickified.
I was taking that point you made and tending to that (as it has been stated elsewhere, as well), not disagreeing that the man can do something else.
The “war” thing is totally apples-oranges though. He simply CANnot be there.
Huh...!
That makes no sense whatsoever ....
Correlation and causation are not the same thing...
Oh, you’re just chickified.
;-)
I fully expect people who are chickified....chicks and fem boys....to get this topic wrong. If you aren’t a man, and don’t understand what it’s like to be a man, you’ll likely miss this one.
So you are chickified, but at least you came by it honestly. Chicks should be, but you don’t know a thing about how this act, to simply “prove yourself the new enlightened metrosexual sensitive male” - will negatively impact the real world lives of a lot of wives and kids.
I would be horrified to find out that my dad gave up a chance to chase his dream because he felt the need to be in the delivery room when I was born. And my dad’s a DOCTOR - WTF is a football player going to add to a delivery? Yes, I get its better if he’s there, but it’s not worth risking a life long dream for a couple hours of Political Correctness and phony compassion.
I’m guessing Hannity was chickified on this?
I listened to them on Fox and Friends speaking of this huge decision: attend the birth or play the game.
And then they said ‘girlfriend’. I wondered to myself what would make a man treat a woman like a wife, take joy in a birth upcoming for this ‘wife’, but still not make her legally his wife.
I couldn’t come up with a complimentary answer.
It also made me think about this new baby boy and those baby boys born to a wedded set of parents.
I couldn’t help but think that the wedded baby has a greater certainty of security.
And that is what makes the traditional nuclear family different than any other design of ‘marriage’ suggested by anyone, same sex or otherwise.
I'll remember that next time I'm 180 feet up a tree with a chainsaw.
BTW, I too am of the opinion that Sherman should probably play. OTOH, if his GF has complications and dies in labor (it happens), I'd guess he'd regret it.
Rumor is Bridget M wanted to have a kid, Tom didn’t, she went off birth control without telling him, and that’s why they split up.
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