{"id":166,"date":"2007-04-26T13:35:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-26T13:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/2007\/04\/alec-baldwins-thoughtless-episode.html"},"modified":"2011-06-30T20:26:12","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T20:26:12","slug":"alec-baldwins-thoughtless-episode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/2007\/04\/alec-baldwins-thoughtless-episode.html","title":{"rendered":"Alec Baldwin’s “thoughtless” episode"},"content":{"rendered":"

Heather Havrilesky has an interesting take<\/a> on Alec Baldwin’s “thoughtless little pig” episode at Salon.com . She writes :<\/p>\n

“Rude, thoughtless little pig” was mild talk in my family, the kind of thing you might hear when you forgot to take out the trash. For a few years when my older brother was in high school and looked just like Funky Winkerbean, my dad couldn’t address him without using the word “weirdo,” as in “Stop being such a weirdo and play a sport or something.
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Her family sounds just like mine. My parents didn’t hesitate to tell us when we were being snotty-faced, and I’m none the worse for it. On the contrary, knowing that I would get taken to task when I crossed the line, did me much good. Do I think that they were being abusive ? No – they were doing everything in their power to help me differentiate right from wrong. And if that meant telling me off, then so be it. Hearing me called foolish, when I was being foolish<\/em>, did me no harm.<\/p>\n

And while I with my “modern” views (my “old-fashioned” Mom wouldn’t blink an eyelid) might blanch at recording this kind of a vehement message on a kid’s voice mail, it’s apparently pretty clear that Baldwin loves his kid, and did what he did in a temper (and hopefully doesn’t make a habit of it). Parents are people too. Who are we to be so holier-than-thou ? Are there not enough “real” child abuse cases in this country (and the rest of the world) to be railed at ?<\/p>\n

Judging from the stuff I read on the Internet, everyone’s in a tizzy about Baldwin’s name-calling. Blown way, way out of proportion. And I haven’t heard it debated in desi circles. At all. Frankly, a non-issue. And let’s face it, even if your parents spoke in hushed please-and-thank-yous around you as a child, you think the rest of the world will be just as politically correct ? There’s lots out there that can damage a kid more than being called “a thoughless little pig”. And while it may be nasty to hear, there are probably far more potentially danger causing issues to be discussed.<\/p>\n

Like gun control.<\/p>\n

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Heather Havrilesky has an interesting take on Alec Baldwin’s “thoughtless little pig” episode at Salon.com . She writes : “Rude, thoughtless little pig” was mild talk in my family, the kind of thing you might hear when you forgot to take out the trash. For a few years when my older brother was in high […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"twitter_17000648_17000648":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,12,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-and-society","category-hollywood","category-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"post-thumbnail":false,"sow-carousel-default":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"amodini","author_link":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/author\/admin"},"uagb_comment_info":5,"uagb_excerpt":"Heather Havrilesky has an interesting take on Alec Baldwin’s “thoughtless little pig” episode at Salon.com . She writes : “Rude, thoughtless little pig” was mild talk in my family, the kind of thing you might hear when you forgot to take out the trash. For a few years when my older brother was in high…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":789,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions\/789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}