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Telegraph service to Herald newsroom restored
By adamg on Thu, 08/07/2008 - 10:03pm
And so news finally reaches Joe Fitzgerald of the battle between the West Roxbury Loons of Decency and the Boston Phoenix, five months after the whole thing was all over the blogs and West Roxbury papers. Of course, the Herald's short on space these days, which forces Fitzgerald to economize on words and omit the names of the woman the column is about and the paper she's complaining about.
I wonder if one of the younger members of the Herald staff could show Joe how to use this InterWebs thing, because it's really useful for checking stuff like election results, which would let him avoid the embarrassment of saying self-appointed Defender of Public Morality Bob Joyce gave state Sen. Marian Walsh "a real scare" in 2004, when, in fact, she beat him 2-1.
Via Dan Kennedy, who apparently still reads Fitzgerald so we don't have to.
Bonus: One of the woman's complaints was that she had to shield her son's eyes from a giant Abercrombie & Fitch poster at Faneuil Hall showing "a barechested young man with hardly any pants on." Guess that means she won't be letting him look at Fitzgerald's column online:
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Bonus: One of the woman's
Looks like someones never let their child visit a public beach before. I never liked the ads because they do seem a bit odd but seeing a barechested man with some bum showing is not going to harm the kid much. I think as a culture we have gotten alittle too protective. That being said I dont think it should be there, but Im not shielding anyones eyes from it.
Abercrackie and Snatch
I'm surprised she didn't express fear that it would make him gay or something. Perhaps he might like it too much.
Like barechested young guys with hardly any pants on aren't a frequent sight in his middle school or high school locker room on any given gym day. Well now, I guess she's just going to have to go into that locker room and cover his eyes for him! And glare at anybody watching him during that barechested, hardly-any-pants-on phase of changing into his school clothes.
I sure hope he is not in
I sure hope he is not in high school, lol, although its possible Ive seen mothers still cutting their sophmores food for them.
We live in a culture where everyone is so afraid of nudity that they go through great lengths to cover it up. Many kids dont play any sports or do things where they would be near other kids who are in different states of undress. It essentially creates two worlds (especially for boys) those where any sign of nudity is bad and scary and those who dont mind because they grew up in locker rooms and what not. If anything the mother should be keeping him away from the poster because it creates an impression on him that he is supposed to look that way, which he obviously doesnt (or at least cant until hes older, assuming he becomes a gym rat) and Im going on a limb and assuming she doesnt let him play any sports so he doesnt know what a normal kid is supposed to look like.
Regional Differences, Too
New England has these wierd stalls busting up locker rooms, rusting and growing mold in the name of privacy.
When I swam competitively and knew just about every swimming pool in Oregon and Washington, the locker rooms were always wide open spaces and everybody changing and nobody caring. It could get quite rowdy with girls sprinting around half-changed and snapping towels. I suspect the same for the guys room, as our club's pool had cinderblock walls that didn't reach the ceiling and you could hear whooping and see towels flying and such.
My kids are kind of prudish at their ages (10 and 12), but I've never sheltered them from what bodies look like because I see no reason for them to feel shame over their own!