Furious
posted in Uncategorized |Way to go, folks.
An adult Korean adoptee dares to voice her opinion on her own blog about some things that adoptive parents say, and how they key into her experiences, thoughts, and emotions about international adoption…
And y’all go and hound her with nasty comments and nasty private emails to the point where she feels she has to move her blog and make it invitation only.
WAY to go.
What, are you Republicans or something?? (←This is a joke, folks. Sort of.)
For more info, check out Amber’s post.
And please, please, please do not dismiss or denigrate adult adoptees who write about the aspects of international adoption that bother them by calling them “angry” or “maladjusted” or “poorly parented” or anything of the sort. Don’t label their entire lives by one aspect. For instance, I am angry about this whole meshugginah mess, about the mish-mosh that NCLB, hand-in-hand with certain aspects of educational pedagogy, has made of our schools, about the way our civil rights are eroding under the current administration, about the fact that perfectly happy, ordinary families who happen to be gay are being forced out of areas they’ve lived in for a long time. Pray tell, does this make me “maladjusted”? Does this mean OmegaGranny and OmegaGramps raised me poorly?
Gah.
Gimme a break, people.
Voices of adult adoptees are important to those of us who have adopted from China, Vietnam, Russia, Ethiopia, Korea. Because, even though some of you dismiss those voices as “angry”, you’d darned well better listen to their experiences. Because, one day, your “precious” (don’t get me started on APCer’s latest evidence of humor-impairment) children may be feeling very similar things, asking very similar questions. And you will get all bent out of shape when adoptive parents of that time decide to call your child “angry” and “maladjusted” and “poorly parented”.
Goddman, it’s noogie time!
