Mothering › Forums › Health › The Case Against Circumcision › Rosie O'Donnell
New Posts  All Forums:Forum Nav:

Rosie O'Donnell  

post #1 of 22
6/25/04 at 6:26pm
Thread Starter 
:

Quote:
Rosie O'Donnell was an instant success as a TV talk show host, but she made a different kind of splash when she met her adopted son, Parker.
"I picked him up and was like, 'Hi!"' she said, opening her mouth wide to demonstrate, "and he vomited an entire jar of baby squash right in my mouth."
There were telltale signs of her inexperience with boys.
"I told Rosie Parker hadn't been circumcised, even though she insisted that he had," actress Rita Wilson said in the February issue of Ladies' Home Journal.
"I just thought, 'Wow, it really healed good in two days," said Ms. O'Donnell, who recalled bursting into tears when she realized the mistake, which was due to a mix-up in hospital records.
She said her friend Kate Capshaw, Steven Spielberg's wife, arranged to have the circumcision performed the next day.
Too bad she didn't just realize he was perfect and leave him alone.
post #2 of 22
6/25/04 at 6:28pm
:Puke
post #3 of 22
6/25/04 at 6:52pm
Quote:
There were telltale signs of her inexperience with boys.
I am cracking up over here. Is that really an appropriate thing to say in an article about a lesbian mama?
post #4 of 22
6/25/04 at 6:58pm
Thread Starter 
I think it was written in 1997, before she "came out."
post #5 of 22
6/25/04 at 6:58pm
What a shame.
post #6 of 22
6/25/04 at 7:05pm
:
post #7 of 22
6/25/04 at 7:10pm
Hm, I thought Rosie was smarter than that.
post #8 of 22
6/26/04 at 12:38am
I thougt she was smarter than that too. She is now on my shit list : . My dh always hated her, I think he was on to something.
post #9 of 22
6/26/04 at 1:13am
I lost all possible respect for her the day I found out that despite all her anti-gun foofaraw-ing, she had an armed bodyguard on retainer.
post #10 of 22
6/26/04 at 1:30am
Acksiom, the word hypocritical comes to my mind.

Does it come to your mind too?
post #11 of 22
6/26/04 at 4:33am
Of all of the people who have a very public persona, I can't think of anyone I dislike more than Rosie O'Donnell and this type of information doesn't help me like her any more.




Frank
post #12 of 22
6/26/04 at 1:14pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by PuppyFluffer
Acksiom, the word hypocritical comes to my mind.

Does it come to your mind too?
Yes. Well, that and more, actually, including: blatant, elitist, ho-bag, and a host of others which, ah, shall we say, really wouldn't be good things to post.

Hypocrisy is one of my bile triggers, IYKWIM, and tends to make me spew, and the more blatant, the more acidic.

But after the third attempt at using the word in my post and then having to cut away everything afterwards as thoroughly inappopriate communication , I decided to just leave it out.

So -- thank you very much for saying it.
post #13 of 22
6/26/04 at 2:00pm
Too bad Rita Wilson had to open her big mouth.
post #14 of 22
6/26/04 at 2:40pm
Thread Starter 
Quote:
Too bad Rita Wilson had to open her big mouth.
Exactly what I was thinking. What prompted me to look up this article was a Rosie O'Donnell TV special I had been watching. Rita Wilson actually brought the subject up to Rosie by asking, "Is he circumcised?" : What was her point in doing that?
post #15 of 22
6/26/04 at 3:32pm
And don't get me started on [expletive] Kate [expletive] Capshaw, Gender-Elitist Sexual Violation Enabler to the Stars.



But. . .okay, I hate to have to bring this up, but. . .

. . .what I really don't understand is why O'Donnel started crying when she found out that he hadn't been violated.


. . .<sigh>. . .


I really don't want to say this. . .I want to just hang on to my outrage and disgust, and only castigate and dismiss her. . .but. . . . :

Is it possible that at some level she knew how inherently, horribly wrong it was, and was crying because she had to face the 'choice' all over again?

And because she knew that Wilson, Capshaw, and most everybody else around her would be pressuring her to do something which she deep down inside realized was completely unjustifiable and vile?



Ghod, how I'd much rather just despise them all.
post #16 of 22
6/26/04 at 10:32pm
how sad... that poor innocent child..
post #17 of 22
6/26/04 at 11:48pm
Quote:
But. . .okay, I hate to have to bring this up, but. . .

. . .what I really don't understand is why O'Donnel started crying when she found out that he hadn't been violated.
I think most adoptive parents would probably be crying for a different reason (joy, elation, disbelief in good fortune come to mind)
post #18 of 22
6/27/04 at 12:05am
Quote:
And don't get me started on [expletive] Kate [expletive] Capshaw, Gender-Elitist Sexual Violation Enabler to the Stars.
T what's this mean? (i know nothing about her, just curious for some reason, lol)
post #19 of 22
6/27/04 at 4:35am
That sucks.
post #20 of 22
6/27/04 at 7:08pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by mamaley
T what's this mean? (i know nothing about her, just curious for some reason, lol)
It's a micro-rant referring to the fact that she made the arrangements ('Enabler') for Parker ('to the Stars') to be sexually mutilated (obvious). It's not really based on anything outside of this particular discussion.

The 'Gender-Elitist' comment is, of course, an assumption on my part -- that she would not only never arrange for a little girl's inner labia and prepuce to be cut off and inner vaginal skin to be stripped out, in comparison, but would probably report the people considering it to the authorities, let alone simply try to convince them not to have it done. Which I don't think is an unfair or unwarranted assumption.

Sufficiently explained? If I missed something, please let me know.
New Posts  All Forums:Forum Nav:
  Return Home
  Back to Forum: The Case Against Circumcision
This thread is locked  
Mothering › Forums › Health › The Case Against Circumcision › Rosie O'Donnell