If Bristol Palin is celebrated for having a baby out of wedlock, what does my black ass get for not having one?

And I am so serious.

Why isn’t anyone calling me to explain to teenagers how to make it to 20 without a baby?  Where the hell is my accolade?

Celebrating Mixed Messages [The Mudflats]

People Magazine on Sarah Palin:

Bristol was also quoted in the statement from the governor’s office, saying “Teenagers need to prevent pregnancy to begin with–this isn’t ideal.  But I’m fortunate to have a supportive family. The careful cobbling of sentiments reflected the awkward lin Palin has walked as an advocate of premarital abstinence and limited sex education, an oppeonent of abortion and a mother of an unwed teenaged parent.

You almost feel sorry for Sarah Palin that she’s carping about her lousy treatment at the hands of Katie Couric, Tina Fey and John McCain’s handlers while ignoring that she espouses policies  that her own family proves doesn’t work.

Almost.

What I wouldn’t give to see Sarah Palin discuss becoming a grandmother.

I hope her abstinence loving self is feeling humiliated and shamed that her daughter is having a baby before she gets her high school diploma.

My feeling about hardcore Christian right believers  like Palin who love telling the rest of us how to best live our lives …
is that there’s no spinning having a baby out of wedlock, because if it’s indicative of social decay when a poor and/or minority does it…
then it’s social decay when it happens to the  Sarah Palins of the world too.

(And it’s not good news if your future son-in-law’s mother for felony drug charges.)

Yeah, I would love to see Sarah Palin discuss this topic  in an interview. 

Is Bristol Palin negotiating with OK magazine to do an interview after the election?

I have no proof but something in my gut says this is a possibility.

I’ve done some stupid things but nothing as stupid as a pregnancy pact.

A select group of girls at Gloucester High School decided to make a pregnancy pact.  There are 17 baby mamas out there in Gloucester, Massachusetts who decided that they wanted to have a baby to go along with their high school diplomas:

All it took was a few simple questions before nearly half the expecting students, none older than 16, confessed to making a pact to get pregnant and raise their babies together. Then the story got worse. “We found out one of the fathers is a 24-year-old homeless guy,” the principal says, shaking his head.

I’m glad I don’t have kids to do ish like this to me.  Insanity!  Of course, some people will be looking at pop culture (Juno, where art thou?) and the brand new teen mother, Jamie Lynn Spears for making teen motherhood look trenchant and trendy but I don’t.

Unfortunately, these girls live very circumscribed lives (and will continue to do so thanks to their pact).  I wish their parents had given them more insight into the world so that could realize they had other choices than to become a mom before graduation.

Insane.

Pregnancy Boom at Gloucester High [Time.com]

Question of the day: Will Jamie Lynn Spears sell pictures of her baby?

Will she compound the shame and embarassment of being 16, unmarried and pregnant by whoring out her baby pictures to the highest magazine bidder?

I know the little bastard isn’t even here yet but this is one of the questions worming around in my puerile brain today.

So readers share your thoughts…do you think she will all but guarantee her VIP pass to Hell with an over the top photo session celebrating teenage fucking and fuck ups?