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Why are people so offended when I say:
16 years ago
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"Babies aren't cute." ?
This is in regards to human carpet-creeping screechbeasts. Kittens and puppies are cute, but human babies.... Eww. They're usually wrinkled with malformed faces, squishy unfused cranial bones, stare at everything while they take in information to grow into that asshole teenager who will smash in your mailbox, poop, drool, spit up/womit freely upon themselves, etc. Hell when I see a baby photo of myself I don't go "D'aaaaw!", I say "Thank god I'm not half as creepy looking anymore."
Yet for feeling this way about the germ-crawlers, people are totally aghast that I would dare say such a thing, and even moreso at the fact I do not want to hold or touch one either. No offense, but I'm sure Person A's baby is little different to hold than Person B's. It'll be a smooth pudge thing that feels the same way broken bones do. It is a big squishy over a calcium base. It will smell either of waste products of the human body, or of that semi-sweet oil that will remind me of feces even if not present as most all of us have smelled the two together several times in life. The baby will then grasp weakly with sharp nails and stare at me trying to figure out my relation to its own needs. If unappeased it will scream violently, if happy.... it might laugh. Seriously, I haven't felt a baby that was like grabbing the leathery face of Charleton Heston or say "Unhand me you brute before I lay smack down upon thee!". A baby is a baby is a baby is a not cute.
Sorry if it upsets or offends people, but I do not enjoy human baby company nor see why it is so damned abhorrent to feel this way.
This is in regards to human carpet-creeping screechbeasts. Kittens and puppies are cute, but human babies.... Eww. They're usually wrinkled with malformed faces, squishy unfused cranial bones, stare at everything while they take in information to grow into that asshole teenager who will smash in your mailbox, poop, drool, spit up/womit freely upon themselves, etc. Hell when I see a baby photo of myself I don't go "D'aaaaw!", I say "Thank god I'm not half as creepy looking anymore."
Yet for feeling this way about the germ-crawlers, people are totally aghast that I would dare say such a thing, and even moreso at the fact I do not want to hold or touch one either. No offense, but I'm sure Person A's baby is little different to hold than Person B's. It'll be a smooth pudge thing that feels the same way broken bones do. It is a big squishy over a calcium base. It will smell either of waste products of the human body, or of that semi-sweet oil that will remind me of feces even if not present as most all of us have smelled the two together several times in life. The baby will then grasp weakly with sharp nails and stare at me trying to figure out my relation to its own needs. If unappeased it will scream violently, if happy.... it might laugh. Seriously, I haven't felt a baby that was like grabbing the leathery face of Charleton Heston or say "Unhand me you brute before I lay smack down upon thee!". A baby is a baby is a baby is a not cute.
Sorry if it upsets or offends people, but I do not enjoy human baby company nor see why it is so damned abhorrent to feel this way.
But yeah, I don't see why people are offended.
Myself, working in retail has not endeared me to children at all. AT ALL.
Granted, there's times you should keep it to yourself, like, most of the time.... but babies are a kind of personal issue, so a very touchy subject if your opinion is anything but glowing praise for their cuteness and screaming and drooling and barfing and messing themselves and ...and... and.... etc...
Would probably save you a lot of grief if you just say, "I've never developed an appreciation for babies," and only say that if someone asks.
Make sad, apologetic eyes and be polite and SOUND honestly sweet and they'll be a lot more likely to just shrug it off.
If they ask for a detailed explanation, then feel free to expound about the disgusting-ness and gross-out factors; that's on them. At that point you can argue, "Hey! YOU ASKED! I was trying to be nice about it!"
Presentation is everything! ^-^