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=== Bastard === | |||
Mark Jacobs - Well spoken — your arrow flies swift and true to the target. | |||
A personal quibble — I could do without the all-purpose slur "bastards", given that it originates in the sin of a woman being unmarried at the time she gives birth to a child. | |||
The idiom is what it is, carrying no modern connotation of shame, save for a few cases such as mine, where my mother found it necessary to have a contractual husband for a period of time, a month perhaps, beginning just before my birth and running for the contracted period of time, establishing a legal father on my birth certificate, that mother and I and family and all Humanity not suffer the shame of my biological sire having abandoned his pregnant teenage lover. | |||
That's how they did it, as recently as 1960. | |||
So, don't care to read the word "bastard". But as I say, it's a common idiom, no shame attaches beyond my usual "ad hominem fallacy" complaint. | |||
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Online diary of Karl Jones for Sunday August 2, 2020.
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Bastard
Mark Jacobs - Well spoken — your arrow flies swift and true to the target.
A personal quibble — I could do without the all-purpose slur "bastards", given that it originates in the sin of a woman being unmarried at the time she gives birth to a child.
The idiom is what it is, carrying no modern connotation of shame, save for a few cases such as mine, where my mother found it necessary to have a contractual husband for a period of time, a month perhaps, beginning just before my birth and running for the contracted period of time, establishing a legal father on my birth certificate, that mother and I and family and all Humanity not suffer the shame of my biological sire having abandoned his pregnant teenage lover.
That's how they did it, as recently as 1960.
So, don't care to read the word "bastard". But as I say, it's a common idiom, no shame attaches beyond my usual "ad hominem fallacy" complaint.