By TAO
I followed a link off twitter that came to this post by Religious News. Now, I need to confess I tend to stay away from this type of website simply because some tend to raise my blood pressure, especially if they speak of adoption. This time is different and is worth sharing. I will share the last paragraph that made me smile because the hypocrisy is so very clear to me and many others – so read the post.
If I’m against SSM do I have to be against adoption?
If it’s SSM that they’re arguing against, the non-religion reason is biology. If its adoption they pushing for, it’s selfless surrender for the good of the child. The non-religious reasons are simply rationalizations for the religious results they want.
The last post linked below is completely different and is from Adopto-Snark that had me giggling right through to the end. Adoptee humor at it’s finest, but is also something “some” non-adopted should think about before they open their mouth and insert foot. I wish I had her gift.
Questions I’ve Always Wanted to Ask
Hope you enjoy them…
Updated…
The adopted ones blog 
Snarkurchin
April 3, 2013 at 5:50 pm
Thanks for linking, TAO!
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eagoodlife
April 3, 2013 at 11:53 pm
Thanks for this post, so much to explore in these connections and also in the area of adoption humour Our Snarkurch leads the way!! One day someone will write their thesis on the humour of adoption and then will follow research papers and books. What a rich field awaits us as it develops just as it did in feminism and is before our eyes with the humour of disability/differingability.
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TAO
April 4, 2013 at 12:16 am
Thanks Von – I like hearing different thoughts and stories – broadens horizons.
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eagoodlife
April 4, 2013 at 1:47 am
Me too!
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Snarkurchin
April 4, 2013 at 2:42 pm
You know, since I never made it to the dissertation part of the PhD program, it would be cool to be *in* one. (-:
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eagoodlife
April 4, 2013 at 12:23 am
Reblogged this on The Life Of Von and commented:
Excellent post here from TAO and with some interesting links well worth checking out.
Our own Snarkurchin asks some questions for the non-adopted and is as TAO says adoption humour at it’s finest .As I noted in the comments, adoption humour is in it’s infancy and it will be adoptees like the Snarkurchin who will develop and hone it. We are still at the stage in our very large minority group of doing what all movements do as they progress and are still deciding what is funny, what is acceptable and what is offensive. We are made up of many races, from many backgrounds and finding common ground is miraculous to watch. I’m predicting that as we become more comfortable with talking about adoption, our stories, our griefs and trials, the humour will change, become more accessible to us all and eventually begin to include others, just as disabilist humour has done as we watch it developing before our eyes since the last Paralympics and thanks to stand-up comics such as Adam Hills.There’s a joke there somewhere! I wish he was here to make it. I am still an amateur, only entitled for a relatively short time to make wheelie jokes and find my place amongst the disabled or the differently abled if you prefer. I prefer disabled since I was once abled in a certain way which I no longer am and am therefore disabled.
The humour of adoption is being developed by adoptees here and now. Perhaps it is one of the few privileges of being adopted that we can witness and take part in something so healthy, so changing and which shouts progress.
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zoozig aka lorraine
April 5, 2013 at 3:11 pm
Tom Junod’s piece about his connection to same sex marriage because he is an adoptive father…has a long back story. Years ago he totally betrayed the trust of Carole Anderson, a birth mother who became the focus of a major piece he did for Esquire about … the craziness of birth mothers, more or less. After interviewing Carole and other first mothers….he went to China to adopt. Then, of course, he wouldn’t have to deal with anyone’s other mother back at home. If you read his piece, leave a comment or your fingerprint there.
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TAO
April 5, 2013 at 3:24 pm
Oh wow Lorraine – I had no idea. No idea at all – fixed.
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