Dolly Parton on being childfree. Started off wisely, then became a breeder blab September 13, 2014 | Registered: 15 years ago Posts: 6,607 |
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"I really love kids. I love the energy of children. It makes me feel young. I’m just drawn to them. They’re like magic to me. And they’re drawn to me, the childlike part of me that never did grow up."
Re: Dolly Parton on being childfree. Started off wisely, then became a breeder blab September 13, 2014 | Registered: 19 years ago Posts: 9,180 |
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"I feel more like a godmother, like a fairy godmother, than I do like a real mother," Parton says. "I think probably I make a better godmother and an aunt than I would a mother because I was always so involved in my own things."
Breeders are involved in their own "things" too; it's called living the life that you want, and why should anyone apologize for that?
The superstar added that she probably would have given up her singing ambitions if she had gone that route."I probably would have been like my sisters and my mom. I probably would have given up my dreams for that. This is irritating. Instead of saying: I WASN'T WILLING TO GIVE UP MY LIFE FOR KIDS, she's saying, oh, if I had kyds, I would have given up my career for them. Old Dolly is dumb like a fox and I'm thinking she's been coached. I have some admiration for her double-speak, but a man wouldn't get similar questions, nor would he have to justify not having crotch muffins.
But I guess God has His reasons for doing things," This is where my eyeballs went on permanent hiatus to the back of my head. Is she saying Jaysus himself was making sure she took her Pill every night? Just once I'd like to see a hard working, ambitious woman OWN her choice. But then again, The Mommy Mafia only screams down the women who do****.
What comes next is clearly a backpedal to her chyyyld loving fan base: She mused. "I really love kids. I love the energy of children. It makes me feel young. I’m just drawn to them. They’re like magic to me. And they’re drawn to me, the childlike part of me that never did grow up."
Happily, (Of course, the author must use the word "happily," because doG forbid a woman get through life without exercising her "moo-ternal" instinct or enjoying her life without sticky crotch nuggets. Because the Earth would fall off its axis, yanno. eyes2) she's been able to exercise her maternal instincts as an aunt and role model to many others. It's well-known that one of her godchildren is Miley Cyrus (which, by the way, was never a legally designated relationship; Parton herself notes it's symbolic).
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Re: Dolly Parton on being childfree. Started off wisely, then became a breeder blab September 14, 2014 | Registered: 15 years ago Posts: 6,607 |
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Miss_Hannigan
I'm with rockchick. Dolly can't afford to alienate her breeder fan base, she has to put on a front. Maybe she kicks strollers down hallways in private.
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Dean (her husband) and Parton discovered that they could not have children when the singer was in her early 30s, but in public at least she has remained upbeat about this devastating blow.
‘We knew what we were going to name our children if we had had kids, but it never happened,’ she tells me. ‘And now we are older, we are glad we don’t have children.’
But at the time when you were trying, did you feel angry that you didn’t fall pregnant?
‘I never did and my husband never did. I was focused on my career and if I’d had kids, I would have been more focused on that, so I probably would not have been a star. It was just not meant to be.’
Re: Dolly Parton on being childfree. Started off wisely, then became a breeder blab September 14, 2014 | Registered: 11 years ago Posts: 2,430 |
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barbur
I do have it all, because 'all' only entails what you wanted in the first place. Some people are jealous as all fuck that I do, and I'm fine with that. They apparently wanted sprogs more than they wanted other things, so they'd best be satisfied with whatever else, if anything, they can manage besides that.
Whenever 'must be nice' crops up, I always reply that it certainly is. They'll never wring a drop of contrition out of me for sticking with my priorities, staying true to my childfreedom, and working my ass off. If they wanted what I have, they were free to do the same.
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I'm thinking she's been coached, too, because what I'm reading in all that tripe is her just hitting mark after mark after mark, check check check. What she's saying sounds completely fake and contrived and like she's getting in all the cliche phrases that breeders need to hear if she wants them to part with more money. She still makes music and has to keep the breeders a-comin' on down to the amusement park. Sometimes I call entertainers sellouts when they pander to breeders with a checklist of breeder pleasing phrases, but it's worse when celebrities in their 50s, 60s, 70s, and 80s are caving in and having or fathering babbies, and I can certainly see your point about crazy like a fox, too, with this being her income.
Re: Dolly Parton on being childfree. Started off wisely, then became a breeder blab September 26, 2014 | Registered: 9 years ago Posts: 73 |
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"I really love kids. I love the energy of children. It makes me feel young. I’m just drawn to them. They’re like magic to me. And they’re drawn to me, the childlike part of me that never did grow up."
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