so much for THAT good mood.

[mamajoan]

So first I have to read about how the U.S. House of Representatives' cafeterias will now be serving "freedom fries" and "freedom toast" instead of french fries and french toast. This severely pisses me off. Some restaurants have been doing this around the country for a while, and to that my reaction is "morons ... eh well, I won't eat there." But now it's our fucking government, and that is seriously Not Cool.

I was pissed enough to look up the names of the six Republicans and three Democrats on the committee that made this decision, although I haven't actually written to them yet. They are:
Robert W. Ney, R-OH
Vernon J. Ehlers, R-MI
John L. Mica, R-FL
John Linder, R-GA
John T. Doolittle, R-CA
Thomas M. Reynolds, R-NY
John B. Larson, D-CT
Juanita Millender-McDonald, D-CA
Robert Brady, D-PA

I'll probably write them a nasty letter or email when I feel coherent enough to do so. Meanwhile, as a PSA, let me once again inform you that if you are a resident of the USA you can look up the names and contact information of all your elected officials -- federal Senators and Representatives, and state Senators and Representatives -- at congress.org. The vast majority of them have email, and those who don't have phone numbers and/or snailmail addresses. Remember, if you write to one of them, include your full name and address and, if possible, demographic information (gender, age, education). They will pay more attention if they know you're one of their constituents.

Anyway, I had just barely begun getting over the pissed-ness for that, when some asshole in grammarpolice decided to flame me for my icon. In reference to the picture of my pregnant belly, he said that I was advertising the fact that I'm doing something that requires no talent, and added that I should be sure to breast-feed in order to further broadcast my "skills" to the world. So I flamed him back a little (although really I think I was too polite to be truly called flaming) and his responses were unsatisfactory, and then I had an attack of conscience (not for anything I said, but for being so far off-topic for the community) and deleted all the comments. But I'm still steaming about it.

So, for the record: I am pregnant and single, both by choice, and proud of it. If you don't like that, you can fucking go to hell. And hey, if my icon offends you? Feel completely free to avert your goddamn eyes while you click away to another page. Fuck you very much.

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[thedivinegoat.livejournal.com]

In reference to the picture of my pregnant belly, he said that I was advertising the fact that I'm doing something that requires no talent, and added that I should be sure to breast-feed in order to further broadcast my "skills" to the world.

Gah! Leaving aside the joys of pregnancy, he obviously know *nothing* about breastfeeding, as in order to do it right takes quite a lot of skill, otherwise you end up with cracked and bleeding nipples - at least at first.

He probably imagines you just slap the baby's face against your tit and leave it - maybe once you've been feeding for a few months but for those first six weeks position is everything!

[anotherjen.livejournal.com]

I would also like to add that it's the -educated- women who tend to make the choice breastfeed, because they're aware of its health and bonding benefits. What an asshole. Shall I send him a naked picture of myself pregnant?

[mamajoan.livejournal.com]

Hee hee! Uh, I mean, thanks, but no. In his own twisted way he'd probably enjoy it, and That Would Be Wrong(tm).

It's a funny world I live in, where people offer to send other people naked pictures of themselves as a way of showing support to me. :)

[frightened.livejournal.com]

Anyway, I had just barely begun getting over the pissed-ness for that, when some asshole in grammarpolice decided to flame me for my icon. In reference to the picture of my pregnant belly, he said that I was advertising the fact that I'm doing something that requires no talent, and added that I should be sure to breast-feed in order to further broadcast my "skills" to the world.

Stupid fuck. Only a man could think that pregnancy, childbirth and childrearing requires no skills or talent, I swear... And frankly, his comments were completely uncalled-for and impolite, and he should go and fuck himself with an eighteen-foot television aerial.

So I flamed him back a little (although really I think I was too polite to be truly called flaming) and his responses were unsatisfactory, and then I had an attack of conscience (not for anything I said, but for being so far off-topic for the community) and deleted all the comments. But I'm still steaming about it.

Sounds like he started it. What the fuck does your icon have to do with grammar? Am I missing something? Your icon is a picture, grammar is words... *am confused* Sounds like an arsey little fuck whose attitude problem is greater than his cranial capacity.

So, for the record: I am pregnant and single, both by choice, and proud of it. If you don't like that, you can fucking go to hell. And hey, if my icon offends you? Feel completely free to avert your goddamn eyes while you click away to another page. Fuck you very much.

You go, girl. Don't let the bastards get you down.

Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

[retch.livejournal.com]

Go get him Joan! With a mallet! (or a mallard, that would probably hurt to get hit with too)

Re: Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

[mamajoan.livejournal.com]

lol... hitting people with a mallard... it sounds like a lost Monty Python episode. :) "She hit me with a duck!" "A duck?!" "I got better."

[workingslacker.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure which pisses me off more: the fact that the government changed the name of food to support their agenda, or the fact that there was an actual fucking committee that needed to decide such a thing. My tax dollars pay for that? So going to write a letter to The Git I Didn't Vote For.

As for your icon, I love it so much. It makes me smile every time I see it. I just want to pet the chickpea and coo.

[tiggrrl.livejournal.com]

I thought I had already responded to this, but apparently not. The comment I thought I had left was:
Oh goody, two from California for me to complain to. I may not be from their districts, but at least it's the same state.

[obsessedmuch.livejournal.com]

I am pregnant and single, both by choice, and proud of it.

*pets Joan* Ignore the amazing display of ignorance by that moron. I love your belly icon and your obvious enthusiasm and joy for what you've chosen to do makes me grin every time I see it. Mama-bellies rule! ;)

[drglam]

I know I've said it before, but I LOVE your pregnant belly icon. And I'm really enjoying reading about your pregnancy. Leaving aside the whole "yay, this cool person who's gonna be a GREAT mom is having a baby" thing, it gratifies the tiny bit of biological clock that I've got. (mine when off when I was about 30. I still hadn't the slightest desire for children, but suddenly, seeing pregant women, or women with babies, made me really happy. Weird, huh?)

Anyway, I'm here cheering for you.

[rainbow-goddess.livejournal.com]

How do you suppose those Congressional assholes would react to getting mail from a Canadian? :) Oh, but we have French people in our country! French people bad!

[velcroswench.livejournal.com]

That farging bastiche! Hit him with a duck! ;)

Oh and I had a thought....wouldn't it be lovely/poetic justice to copy his comments on motherhood, and post them to his mother? Heheheh.

I am evil. Eeeevil! ;)

Well, let's face it...

[glamsith.livejournal.com]

Some men are *really* threatened by what they can't do.

Your waving your pregnant belly in his face was just like taunting "ha-ha, you can't gestate!"

Of course he had to belittle it. What other defence does the emotional three-year-old have?

Uteran envy makes penis envy look so healthy and well-adjusted.

Go chickpea belly!*

*This belly guaranteed free of all miss-named government foods.