Common Folk Using Common Sense

FROM THE LEFT: Accepting her Emmy on Sunday night for lead actress in a drama series (”Brothers and Sisters”), Field stumbled halfway through, lost her train of thought, screeched at the audience to stop applauding so she could finish talking, and then was bleeped by Fox censors as she stammered through an anti-war rant. “And, let’s face it, if the mothers ruled the war, there would be no g–damn wars in the first place,” Field said, but Fox cut away for much of her comment.

FROM THE RIGHT: “I’ve actually become a more violent person since I became a mother, If someone came between me and my kids, they’d be dead meat. So I didn’t agree with that particular statement.” - Former “Everybody Loves Raymond” star Patricia Heaton, responding to Sally Field’s Emmy acceptance speech.

I’m not exactly sure what world Kumbaya Sally lives in, but it isn’t the same world I have lived in for quite a number of years. The Islamists have been publicly stating for 20 years their desire to subdue the entire world, by sword if necessary, to establish their global caliphate. They have also been preaching death to every American for the last 10 years.

Nothing can be said of this any better than from Michelle Malkin:

Contrary to tongue-tied Sally’s incoherent Primetime Emmy Awards diatribe, childbearing and childrearing experiences do not bond all women in a universal sorority of non-confrontation. There are sheep moms. There are lion moms. We know which kind Sally Field is.

“If mothers ruled the, ruled the world, there would be no god-damned wars in the first place,” Field bleated. In the Gidget Guide to Parenting, mothers are appeasers and hand-holders. Our maternal instincts supposedly lead us to shun fights and coddle bullies instead of disciplining them.

There would be “no god-damned wars,” Silly Sally, because we’d all be conquered chattel if Field Diplomacy “ruled the world.”

Motherhood and peace-making are not synonymous. Motherhood requires ferocity, the will and resolve to protect one’s own children at all costs, and a life-long commitment to sacrifice for a family’s betterment and survival. Conflict avoidance is incompatible with good mothering.

On the playground of life, Sally Field is the mom who looks the other way when the brat on the elementary school slide pushes your son to the ground or throws dirt in your daughter’s face.

She’s the mom who holds her tongue at the mall when thugs spew profanities and make crude gestures in front of her brood. She’s the mom who tells her child never to point out when a teacher gets her facts wrong.

She’s the mom who buys her teenager beer, condoms and a hotel room on prom night, because she’d rather give in than assert her parental authority and do battle.

In the real world, not all women think with their wombs instead of their brains. In the real world, you can’t just give evil a “time-out.” Sally Field fancies herself the mother of all spokesmothers. To which I say, in my most maternally combative tone: Speak for your own bleepin’ self, sister.

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