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20 Things a Mother Should Tell Her Son
1. You will set the tone for the sexual relationship, so don’t take something away from her that you can’t give back.

2. Play a sport. It will teach you how to win honorably, lose gracefully, respect authority, work with others, manage your time, and stay out of trouble. And maybe even throw or catch.

3. Use careful aim when you pee. Somebody’s got to clean that up, you know.

4. Save money when you’re young because you’ll need it some day.

5. Allow me to introduce you to the dishwasher, oven, washing machine, iron, vacuum, mop and broom. Now please go use them.

6. Pray and be a spiritual leader.

7. Don’t ever be a bully and don’t ever start a fight, but if some idiot clocks you, please defend yourself.

8. Your knowledge and education is something that nobody can take away from you.

9. Treat women kindly. Forever is a long time to live alone and it’s even longer to live with somebody who hates your guts.

10. Take pride in your appearance.

11. Be strong and tender at the same time.

12. A woman can do everything that you can do. This includes her having a successful career and you changing diapers at 3 A.M. Mutual respect is the key to a good relationship.

13. “Yes ma’am” and “yes sir” still go a long way.

14. The reason that they’re called “private parts” is because they’re “private”. Please do not scratch them in public.

15. Peer pressure is a scary thing. Be a good leader and others will follow.

16. Bringing her flowers for no reason is always a good idea.

17. Be patriotic.

18. Potty humor isn’t the only thing that’s humorous.

19. Please choose your spouse wisely. My daughter-in-law will be the gatekeeper for me spending time with you and my grandchildren.

20. Remember to call your mother because I might be missing you.

From here:http://www.werdyab.com/2012/04/20-things-mother-should-tell-her-son.html

I wrote this on a facebook note last year, and since it’s relevant this year again, and I want my children to pay attention, I figured I would repost it. :)

So, mothers day is coming right up, and a couple of you are wondering what to get me. A couple of you feel obligated, even though you’re trying to save up for things you’ve planned to get yourselves. And a couple of you just feel guilty, lol. Here’s me letting you off the hook.

I don’t want any ‘stuff’.

I heard a radio ad today that said “show mom you love her with a bouquet of flowers’. I was immediately disgusted. Is that what it takes now to show someone you love them? Mothers Day is about love and appreciation, and if you really want to show me you value me as your mother (or as the mother of your children), then there are better ways to go about doing that. Don’t waste your money buying me something that will quickly whither and die, or something I’ll use once and feel guilty getting rid of later. Instead …

1. Help me with the housework! Show me you understand how much time and effort I put into providing a loving, comfortable home for you by taking part in it, or better yet, taking over.

2. Don’t fight with each other. Prove to me that my lessons, lectures on the importance of family have sunk in by letting a day go by without bickering back and forth.

3. Show me you understand how stressful my job as a full time mother and housewife is by helping to relieve that stress. Take the dogs out without being asked, clean up anything you see out of place. Take out the garbage, tidy up the yard. Go out of your way to make my day easier.

4. Flattery will get you everywhere. You know the best way to show someone you appreciate them? TELL THEM!

5. If all else fails, I accept cash donations.

ignatius-m:

Not zir parents. Not zir sibling.

An autistic person.

For some reason, relatives of autistic people disproportionately see themselves as knowing better what their relative needs and desires than ze does zirself.

And, hell, this happens other ways too. “I know an African American person, so I know better what African Americans need than they do themselves.”

Fucking humans.

I guess I’m going to be the dissenting opinion here, and while I’m at it, I’ll mention the absolute ridiculousness of comparing someone suffering a disease that debilitates their mental faculties to a person with a dark skin color. Am I the only one that finds that just a tad racist?

When it comes to autism, we’re talking about a disease that disables the sufferer from making coherent decisions. Autistics, as a general rule, act on the impulse of what they’re feeling at that moment in time, and this relates to high functioning. They, in most cases, are not capable of making an informed capable decision regarding long term effects and consequences of any foundation or organization. That’s why we have to do it for them, with their best interests in mind.

I’m trying really hard not to sound patronizing or condescending, but having a child with decreased mental faculties, who came very close to being labeled high functioning autistic, I’m in the position of being completely aware that my son, more able than most autistics, is STILL not capable of considering the effects and consequences of these organizations. If he requires the people who care for him to make these decisions, then I fail to see how someone suffering something more severe to their mental faculties would be capable of it.

This isn’t the case of people thinking for the oppressed, because I don’t see in what world autistics qualify as an oppressed group. This is the case of caring, compassionate people trying to take care of those who aren’t physically or mentally capable of caring for themselves.