06-15-08, 09:52 AM
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Awards:  | Re: Just when I think Fox News cannot go any lower.....
I believe in recycling. Here are some things I wrote before this post. Quote:
When the baby's mother and Father are not married to each other the mother's 'title' is "Baby Momma."
If they are married then that term would rightfully be considered an insult, UNLESS...
you believe there is no stigma or harm in being an unmarried mother.
This is a test of what your values are.
If you think it's an insult then deep in your heart you also believe that single parenting is wrong.
Time to re-examine your basic assumptions.
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...it's a derogatory term but only because it's describing a relationship that has a negative stigma. And deservedly so.
And I agree it is insulting to use that term to a woman who is married to the child's father.
But the term has no emotion connotation when used to refer to the unmarried mother of a man's child or children. It's like Mr. Mrs. Ms. Mother. Father. Baby-Momma.
We use the word, "bastard" as a pejorative because it describes the family condition of a person's birth where the father is not married to the mother and that circumstance is frowned on by society. But the word, "bastard" in and of itself, is not an insult. It describes the family circumstances surrounding the person's existence.
I think it is debatable as to whether the full degree of the offensiveness was known by the person doing the CG (character generation, the person typing in the captions on screen).
My impression, as a regular Fox News viewer, is that they tend to hire people whose hearts are in the right place but who are a little rough around the edges when it comes to spelling, grammar, nuance or political intellectualism.
The CG operator may have thought it a non-specific generalized urban slang term to refer to just ANY mother. But as you and I both know, it means more and LESS (in terms of value judgment) than just that.
But even your connotation is slightly skewed, IMHO.
There need be no animosity attached to the term as you have described above in bold.
Urban Dictionary: baby mama
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