Comments on: Introducing the Adoption Apparel Translator

By: Ansley

Ansley — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 08:10:14 +0000

Actually, I did not say all things ‘priceless’ are also ‘child’, so my answer is no.

I totally get you. I hate the shirts to.

And I guess if you want to say all kids cost ‘x’ amount of dollars and are referring to hospital fees for bio kids; well then kids cost money and are ‘bought’ virtually everywhere (not just in the evil US).

Just playing devils advocate. I’m with you.

Speaking of, where you been?

By: iBastard

iBastard — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 00:36:37 +0000

Actually, Ansley, the “Priceless” shirt was sold specifically as “adoption apparel” by a Cafepress shop. I think if I actually saw the shirt in the real world with no knowledge of whether or not the child wearing it was adopted, I would probably just think, “WTF is wrong with you, putting that shirt on your child?” If, as you say, all children are priceless (they actually tend to cost $5,000 to $20,000 US) then putting one in a shirt that says so would be like putting one in a shirt that says “Child”, wouldn’t it?

By: Ansley

Ansley — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 00:41:33 +0000

You make a good point here! However, couldn’t the ‘priceless’ shirt be appropriate any child? I just don’t see how it applies exclusively to TRAs.

Aren’t all children ‘priceless’, regardless of how they joined their family? If I put that shirt on my biological child, would you stil assume I had infertility issues,or that I was announcing my financial status to the world?

By: Making Me a Liar « My Sky ~ Multiracial Family Life

Making Me a Liar « My Sky ~ Multiracial Family Life — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 20:22:58 +0000

[...] that this is their Fresh Air child, just visiting from the city. The White adoptive parents who put clothing on their adopted child of color that announces he/she was adopted, that preemptively clarifies the [...]

By: Emily

Emily — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 19:21:08 +0000

My (birth) daughter is of mixed parentage (white British and black Jamaican). From the looks we get I can tell people are wondering, and we get comments about her ‘olive skin’ and ‘dark eyes’ all the time. I wouldn’t dream of putting her in a shirt that ‘explained’ her heritage. Why should it be any different with adopted kids?

By: joyjoy

joyjoy — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 20:47:22 +0000

Wow

“No one would ever accuse me of sleeping with a Mexcian” wowie,

Good enough to take their children but not good enough to fuck, isn’t that just the beauty of adoption?

By: Sig

Sig — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 16:40:03 +0000

Judging by the length of the comment I actually submitted, I may be operating under the assumption that iBastard actually reads my comments in their entirety instead of just getting to the first snide remark before deleting the text and rewriting. Who knows? Who cares?

But one thing I do know for sure is that I can’t achieve an orgasm without being dressed in full Nazi military regalia.

By: Amy

Amy — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 16:21:21 +0000

I don’t get good ones like this. Dang man you get all the good ones. ROFLMAO

By: iBastard

iBastard — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 13:55:07 +0000

I think she’s trying to say that nobody would think her daughter was the result of an interracial union but she puts her in a “Guatemalan Princess” shirt because she’s proud of her daughter’s country of origin. They make great kids there and she’s eager to buy some more and fuck what UNICEF says about some of those kids being stolen. However, the fact that she flies into such a rage about it suggests she really is sensitive to the interracial issue, and the way she phrases everything reveals much about her thinking.

She’s just another covertly racist international adopter, of which there seem to be quite a few.

But most of all, she’s dumb enough to try to insult me on my own blog, ~~even though she also has a WordPress blog and knows that comments can be edited.~~ Oops, I guess she has a Blogspot blog, don’t know how I missed that. Anyhow, who knows what she was really trying to say, since she’s obviously completely stupid. (The only edit I made, by the way, was just adding the stuff in italics. Everything else was hers.)

By: Theresa

Theresa — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 13:02:26 +0000

Oh thank god she’s light skinned.

It’s so interesting the bits that people feel necessary to include on a stranger’s blog. What a bizarre person.