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Be warned – this is me in in a bad mood. I just received this in my moderation queue:
Hello Unrelaxed Dad:The following is an excerpt from one of our recent posts on The Frisky:Five Things About Pregnancy That Will Eff You Up:You’ve heard about the mood swings, cravings, mania, and general awfulness your wife will be “blessed” with throughout her nine-month journey to motherhood. Here are five things your parent-friends will never tell you about pregnancy, probably because they’d just assume forget about them altogether. Click on the link below to read more:http://www.thefrisky.com/post/246-mind-of-man-five-things-about-pregnancy-that-will-eff-you-up/Please feel free to link to our post. If you have any questions or comments please let me know.Best regards,Deirdre SullivanThe Frisky
Now why does this annoy me so much? Well:
- This woman has obviously never read my blog or she’d know that as a father of two I’ve encountered about eighteen months of pregnancy to date
- If she’d read my blog she’d know that crass garbage like this (talking about miscarriages) “Let her sister/mom/friends console her because you suck at it. Meanwhile, you’ll have some extra time to create a new, winning game plan” really pisses me off. Not least because we miscarried at three months. And it hurts.
- If she’d read my blog, she’d know that most of my readers are actually mothers, not the stereo-typical football playing “jocks” (I believe that’s the expression?) with their brains in their scrotums. Can I add that I mean by this their imaginary target audience, not football players in general? Thank you.
- If she’d read my blog, she’d know that I’m not an American and that I therefore never had a high-school football coach, carnally or otherwise.
- If she’d read my blog, she’d know that the occasion father who drops by wouldn’t be a core Frisky reader either
- If she’d read my blog, she’d know that asking me to put up a plug for a site that effectively combines the insight of Hello magazine with the intellectual rigour of (fish in a barrel, here) Paris Hilton was asking for trouble
- If she’d read my blog…But then she’d have to have been good at her job rather than approaching it with the carpet-bombing mentality of a Ukrainian IT student running a blog-spamming script for Viagra. Or a Canadian student – we traced the last serious script kiddy to attack our work site back to a dorm in British Columbia. But that’s another story.
- If she’d read my blog, she’d know that one of the things that drives me to distraction is the perpetuation of the stereotype of the dad in the hall with a cigar.
- If she’d read my blog, she’d know I that I hate even the slightest hint of being told what to do by large corporations
Deidre, who I realised I just called Tracy (but then you really didn’t pay a lot of attention either, did you?), here’s your damn link (warning – this will take you to material aimed at morons). Gracious of you to give me permission to link to it. The site’s owned by Time-Warner and they want your advertising clicks. Just check your brains in at the jar at the door.
P.S. I’ve paid money to see Jerry Sadowicz. And I’d pay again. Last time I looked, I love being seriously offended as much as the next bloke. But it had better be seriously funny. And Frisky, you’re crap.
Filed under: Fatherhood, parenting, parents, pregnancy | Tagged: bad temper, Frisky, gender stereotypes, internet, marketing, media, PR, pregnancy, public relations, spam, stupidy, Time-Warner
Oh, my goodness, this is hilarious! I don’t mean The Frisky site, I mean your reaction to it. Your last bit reminds me of a review I read this morning for The Love Guru, which totally panned the new flick. The reviewer said, “Please don’t mistake this as the rant of an officer in the morality police. Crude humor is fine — as long as it’s funny.” That line (and yours) totally made me laugh. :D
Cheers, Karen – and I’ve been meaning to say – another girl! Excellent. You probably wouldn’t like Jerry Sadowicz, though :)
Yes, another girl! I’m tickled. :)
I don’t know who Jerry Sadowicz is, but you’re right, I probably wouldn’t like him. I tend to like wry humor more than crude. I tend to roll my eyes at crude humor….
What is that website? That article was truly moronic. Their target audience is clearly the 18-24 kegger crowd. Who won’t care that the article is just lame, not even crude in a funny, 80’s Eddie Murphy kind of way.
(Un)relaxeddad, I so wish morons annoy you again because this post is hilarious :D Anger triggers the awesome wit in you. Haha! “brains in scrotums” Haha!
How these guys ever thought that your blog might be even slightly related to their site, it’s just beyond me…
I’d love to see Jerry Sadowicz.
I love your blatant honesty!
Your response brought my blood pressure down… I was getting mad until you made me laugh.. I bet you’re a really good Dad!
Hey all – well, I’ve sent them the link. Wonder if they’ll reply?
Now as for Mr Sadowicz, he lives in a universe of complete and total misanthropy. Then he makes you laugh at it. He’s also a gifted close up magician (we went to see him do a close up magic show once – this is one seriously complex individual).
Ugh, that site was so offensive. I couldn’t read the beginning of the (and I use the word in its loosest sense) “article” because there was a stupid pop-up stuck in front of it but what I did read was enough for me. I really hate stereotypes and I’m glad there are Dads like you around.
Whenever I get emails like this I consider posting my annoyance but then decide against giving them even an inch. I am always especially put out that it is SO OBVIOUS they have not ever read my blog. The web site shilling tanning products? No, I don’t think will link to you, thanks.