BustyTheClown
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"Bastard Nation": an adoptee's rights forum for people trying to reestablish the legal (and "human") rights of adult adoptees who are literally not allowed to see their own adoption records, birth certificates, etc. This is something near and dear to me, so I gave it a shot.
I was scared when I saw it. No offense to the person who gave me the tip -- I appreciate the thought.
But there is something about many activist groups that scares me: their fanaticism. I refuse to join groups with similar opinions/thoughts/beliefs as mine simply because I know it is all too easy to get carried away and start sounding stupid.
If any of you want to check the site out, it's at Bastard nation. Check it out. There is some helpful information on there, including most state laws on adoptions all typed out for people to see. There are ways to get involved in the movement, ways to contact senators and representatives and whatnot, etc.
I went to the "Laugh" link, as I appreciate humor. It had jokes, but only some of them were even marginally funny to me. Quite a few seemed degrading towards people who aren't adopted, crazy theories about how adoptees are a superior race, etc. I realize this is all supposed to be funny, but I just didn't find it so...
The most disturbing part for me, however, was the use of the word "bastard" to describe people who were adopted. The site claims it has "reclaimed" the word bastard to describe adoptees, like the feminist reclamation of the word "bitch" to describe women. I don't know how many feminists took up proudly calling themselves bitches, and I'm not sure how many adopted people who have been called bastards would like to use that term for themselves. It just seems callous to me.
Besides, if an organization wishes to accomplish anything remotely productive, it seems to me that it is not wise to even joke about being superior, it is not wise to create the impression that their cause is a war against the government (state or federal), and it is not wise to do something as stupid as refer to its own members as bastards. Hell, maybe it's just me, but these people seem to be headed down PETA's path, along with extreme feminists (the kind who claim that the witchhunts were a "Woman's Holocaust) and any other radical group that loses sight of its focus and is more concerned with taking out anger on those its members feel have wronged them in some way.
I was scared when I saw it. No offense to the person who gave me the tip -- I appreciate the thought.
But there is something about many activist groups that scares me: their fanaticism. I refuse to join groups with similar opinions/thoughts/beliefs as mine simply because I know it is all too easy to get carried away and start sounding stupid.If any of you want to check the site out, it's at Bastard nation. Check it out. There is some helpful information on there, including most state laws on adoptions all typed out for people to see. There are ways to get involved in the movement, ways to contact senators and representatives and whatnot, etc.
I went to the "Laugh" link, as I appreciate humor. It had jokes, but only some of them were even marginally funny to me. Quite a few seemed degrading towards people who aren't adopted, crazy theories about how adoptees are a superior race, etc. I realize this is all supposed to be funny, but I just didn't find it so...
The most disturbing part for me, however, was the use of the word "bastard" to describe people who were adopted. The site claims it has "reclaimed" the word bastard to describe adoptees, like the feminist reclamation of the word "bitch" to describe women. I don't know how many feminists took up proudly calling themselves bitches, and I'm not sure how many adopted people who have been called bastards would like to use that term for themselves. It just seems callous to me.
Besides, if an organization wishes to accomplish anything remotely productive, it seems to me that it is not wise to even joke about being superior, it is not wise to create the impression that their cause is a war against the government (state or federal), and it is not wise to do something as stupid as refer to its own members as bastards. Hell, maybe it's just me, but these people seem to be headed down PETA's path, along with extreme feminists (the kind who claim that the witchhunts were a "Woman's Holocaust) and any other radical group that loses sight of its focus and is more concerned with taking out anger on those its members feel have wronged them in some way.
