Comments on: A personal note

By: Razib Khan

Razib Khan — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:31:01 +0000

i assume mustapha was joking? if not, i’ll ban him.

(and am still curious about your stance regarding darker skinned people considering your “political axes to grind” remarks

i am a darker skinned person. and why are you positing a biological taxonomy of the human race straight out of the mind of a 5-year old, light skinned vs. dark skinned?

By: Luke Lea

Luke Lea — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:22:20 +0000

Yes, congratulations razib!

By: Donn

Donn — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:55:09 +0000

congratulations Razib! Though I’ve disagreed with you on quite a few things(and am still curious about your stance regarding darker skinned people considering your “political axes to grind” remarks), your blog has been one of the most informative I’ve read. Good Stuff!

Mustapha:

Sorry to tell you buddy, but “miscegenation” was going on FAR before “wogs” came around. AFAIK(and feel free to correct me on this anyone) all human groups interbred with other hominems(which I would think would be “miscegenation” of a far higher order than whites + non-whites(not to just limit it here, as this mindset occurs across many groups, considering lighter skinned haitians vs darker skinned haitians.).

Though on another note, without miscegenation you wouldn’t be here so that would be a plus.

By: Sandgroper

Sandgroper — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:51:15 +0000

Just be grateful that we are preventing you from diverging.

By: Mustapha Mond

Mustapha Mond — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 04:27:32 +0000

Miscegenation should still be against the law. Thankfully genetic analysis will allow us to bring it back in a full force so accurate and powerful that the wogs who dream of getting above themselves will be trembling in their sandals.

By: Sandgroper

Sandgroper — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:47:32 +0000

@94 – I don’t, I assume the worst about people who make ridiculous claims contrary to a great deal of evidence without backing it up. But this is not the place to pursue that.

By: ackbark

ackbark — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:08:55 +0000

Watching a baby being born is a little like watching a wet St. Bernard coming in through the cat door.

–Jeff Foxworthy

By: Judith

Judith — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:37:08 +0000

@93 No, I’d rather suspect the the cat litter. Don’t always assume the worst from the French

By: Sandgroper

Sandgroper — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:51:32 +0000

“never played with a doll in her life” – yep. “refuses to wear pink” – yep, still won’t, except for one favoured pink T-shirt that has a picture of a dead cat on it and reads “Cute is dead.” Still refuses to wear make-up and resisted all peer pressure to get her ears pierced (“I don’t want any holes in me that I wasn’t born with.”) But these days she does wear dresses, and the occasional piece of jewellery if she is going out somewhere, and she will modify her usual piratical swagger.

Sounds like your girls are coming along just fine.

Judith – You mean all those French people and Brazilians have been eating raw cat meat? Wow.

By: Judith

Judith — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:19:55 +0000

Congratulations from me as well. I trust baby is healthy and doing well. The first weeks are absolutely hectic but very special.

As for role models; a friend of mine, sporting a no-nonsense short crop of hair, had her daughter announce that one day she was going to have ‘nice long hair like daddy’.

As for @88, the danger of toxoplasmosis has been much exaggerated. You get it from cat feces or cat meat. So, while you’re pregnant, don’t touch the cat litter. And keep your 6 month old from eating either the cat poo or the cat itself. If you’ve got that sorted, you should be fine.

By: pconroy

pconroy — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:38:39 +0000

@85,
“She morphed out of it into a feminine young lady naturally when she was ready, although she has remained the hard-headed science type.”

There’s always hope I guess. My daughter has never played with a doll in her life, and refuses to wear pink, as it’s too girly.

My 1 yo daughter has no interest in dolls or soft toys either, but just loves train sets, and arranging the train carriages…

My sister’s daughter is/was the same, even insisting on being called a boys nickname and never wearing dresses or skirts ever – but at 11 yo says she wants to attend a private girls school, where girls uniform is mandatory.

By: Violet

Violet — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:15:43 +0000

@ 88,
Doesn’t baby get immunity already if mom was exposed to that before getting pregnant?

By: The Kutra

The Kutra — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:15:09 +0000

Congrats!

By: pconroy

pconroy — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:58:03 +0000

@87,

I hope Razib keeps the baby quarantined from the cat – toxoplasmodium gondii and all that…

By: e.d.

e.d. — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:30:11 +0000

Congratulations! Hope baby and kitties become good friends.