Post 38 - Father Knows Worst

Author Eric Weinberg wrote a "humorous" piece about how he initially loved his second son, Julian, less than his first son, Ben. Apparently Mr. Weinberg was hoping for a girl the second time and was disappointed when he ended up with another son. He also felt like since he'd known his older son longer, he had a deeper connection with him. Now, in the end, the author said he does love his second son, but it seems like a lot of people are pretty disgusted the article was ever written and many of them don't find his attempts at humor to be funny:

Posted By: wildechild66 (May 15, 2009 at 3:43 PM)
While parental favoritism is sad and can have devastating effect on families, I don't think the author really loves his second son less than his eldest. In his own words, "When I say I don’t love Julian as much as Benjamin, I’m really saying I don’t know
him as well". It can be difficult to form a relationship with someone you don't
fully understand yet--just ask my father."

Well, we don't know your father, so we'll have to take your word on that one. But since you're a fully-formed adult we get why you might be complex and hard to understand. Julian, on the other hand? He's a BABY. He eats, sleeps, and poops. If there are people out there who find that hard to understand then maybe they shouldn't be having kids in the first place. And they probably shouldn't get a pet either. After all, we wouldn't want their heads to explode trying to decipher the intricacies of "meow" and "woof."

Of course, any message board discussion on...well, anything...wouldn't be complete with some not at all out of the blue and obviously very well thought out homophobia:

Posted By: Lola88 (May 24, 2009 at 3:36 PM)
I really hope you don’t make Julian a little gay boy or probably Ben due to the fact that you have such an obsession with a girl. Now I think God does *** for a reason maybe you don’t deserve to have a girl that you may become super obsess with and she can suffer her entire life....This type of comments can only come out of someone who doesn’t believe in nature, yes the last paragraph was kind of sugar coated but
still you suck....

Posted By: AmericaIsCrap (May 24, 2009 at 3:49 PM)
This guy is an idiot. Why bother getting married in an instution sanctioned by GOD, if you're not religious. Way to go! Gay rainbows? Now the second will also be treated as female! We have enough confused youths in America, now we glimpse into the psyche of the parents that not only allow this, but cause this confustion of our young politicians to be getting busted in bathroom stalls.

That's right. Unless you believe in God, there's absolutley no reason to get married. Love? Nope. Committment? Nope. Legal recognition of your relationship? Nope. Green card issues? We digress. But, really, with these kind of people getting married, it's no wonder so many of our poor, innocent, God-fearing politicians are getting busted having sex in bathroom stalls. It's because their parents got married when they didn't believe in God or nature (And, for the record, we didn't even know it was possible to not "believe in nature," but we're a little relieved since we always thought that whole air/sun/trees thing was some kind of vast liberal conspiracy) and told them stories involving rainbows! Okay, that last part is a little ridiculous. Rainbows? Really? That would mean that every kid who loved, say, The Wizard of Oz growing up was gonna be...oh, wait...nevermind.

Anyway, obviously this article is a bit controversial as everyone has a different opinion about what's appropriate to say about your kids and what's funny and what's not. As one poster says:

Posted By: Jute (May 15, 2009 at 6:30 PM)
afeafbcbc -Don't be concerned for those of us you deem non-understanding. Your opinion is simply different than mine. The younger brother not being around as long as the older brother and his gender issues are only a part of how the writer expressed his lack of love and his rejection of the second child. Sarcasm is not humorous to me.

Sarcasm not humorous to you? Shit. We got nothin'.