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…or is it just the young teen daughters of First Lady and current President of the United States, Sasha and Malia? Who I think are lovely and composed and dressed like many a young woman today.
FIRST VOLLEY
Elizabeth Lauten, communications director for Rep. Stephen Fincher (R-TN), had written this attacking the two girls who actually are just standing there listening to their father speak. [Thanks Janet Shan, one of our TMV journos, for the catch]
QUIET EXPRESSION IS OFTEN THE MARK OF THE INTROVERT
Not sure it take even a modicum of observation but Malia and Sasha both, appear to be introverted souls, meaning not all gregariousness and blinding energy the way many an extrovert presents. Introverted people are quiet, take time to formulate. Often have a depth that the extrovert might struggle toward. Introverts are often mistaken for being uncool, bored, uncommunicative, for they are often quiet, waiting, thinking, watching, and shy. Extroverts are often mistaken for being loud, know it alls, the fun guy or gal, the one who tires everyone out with their incessant chatter.
But, in reality, both introvert and extrovert carry many gifts, and all of the gifts of heart, mind, soul and spirit. It’s just that they relay them differently, and on a spectrum… some at the extreme ends, others in the midrange.
I think that Elizabeth Lauten may have had the same garden variety lack of understanding of the introverted nature that many in our fast-paced, and ‘do not examine deeply, just rush onward,’ culture have. And add to that, something more about judgement.
HOW DO MANY YOUNG WOMEN DRESS TODAY IN THE USA?
But then too, here are photos of Elizabeth Lauten smiling with girls seeming far younger than her, who would seem to be, well –it appears because it’s GOP gala time, it’s A-ok to hang without further comment with slightly nekkid ladies.
[ GuestofaGuest.com, also on Facebook.]
One can google Miss Lauten’s name and find many more photos of her with ‘daringly dressed’ young women looking all manner of different ways [ as females OFTEN DO, you know]… and for whom it appears she has given no censure. [ GuestofaGuest.com, also on Facebook.]
IN FAMILIES WHO ARE TEACHING CIVILITY TO CHILDREN, THERE ARE STEPS TO A SINCERE APOLOGY: IT STARTS WITH
DETAILED EXAMINATION OF MOTIVES AND HOW ONE DISREGARDED OTHER HUMAN BEINGS.
I think Lauten’s apology can be accepted by whomever if they wish. I think she’s trying. The salsa of parents, prayer, etc… seemed like the old ‘not running again to spend time with family’ that is actually code rather than fact….
for, usually an apology tells
–what the culprit did to even think about doing such a thing to the so very much younger people.
–It includes full honesty about what one actually did, what the thinking process was.
–It includes complete acknowledgment in detail about how it harmed the young people, and others.
–It includes sincere remorse, shame and grief.
–It includes asking for forgiveness.
–It includes saying what one will do instead next time one is caught in an ill advised pique.
— In all, it is about the persons hurt or harmed. It is not about the person making the apology planting a flag on new found wisdom for themselves, although one can see that as a useful side issue.
WE ALL MAKE ERRORS
In many a household of children Lauten’s ‘apology’ would not wash. But for sake of knowing that all persons on earth make mistakes, tho usually not so public, I think that she apologized, even tho not in depth, should be considered far better than many a politico has done. We dont know her or her circumstances, stressors or what might have been her very bad, terrible, horrible very awful day.
JUST A NOTE ABOUT THE FAUX CONCEPT OF “TERRIBLE TEENS”
And yet, I’d want to add, as an aside, suggest too, that ‘terrible teen years’ may have been Elizabeth Lauten’s feeling, but many parents, teachers, family, friends, like their teens –and are amused by their antics and realize as parents, that as their teens grow, so must they. To label all teens with expectation that their years will be terrible, is just plain unobservant. For most adults, there is a daily ‘terrible. Let alone in teens. Yet, most of us deal. So do most teens. Teens cannot be lumped into any one group. Each has a life of his and her own. Just like adults.
THE MEDIA RELEASED APOLOGY OF MISS LAUTEN
Quoting from Janet Shan’s article at TMV: “Lauten later issued a so-called apology:
I reacted to an article and quickly judged the two young ladies in a way that I would never have wanted to be judged myself as a teenager. After many hours of prayer, talking to my parents and re-reading my words online, I can see more clearly how hurtful my words were. Please know that these judgmental feelings truly have no pace in my heart. Furthermore, I’d like to apologize to all of those who I have hurt and offended with my words, and pledge to learn and grow (and I assure you I have) from this experience. Source: Gawker
So it goes. For Elizabeth L.
AND THERE IS THE WORLD OF LOVE from parents toward their offspring…
As for Malia and Sasha, they have parents and relatives and friends who love them dearly. Half of ‘fighting the good fight,’ is not to be safe from all flying words, but to be able to analyze and understand that ways of some in the world. And to learn to have ‘duck’s back.’ I’ve no doubt the Obamas will see to those teachings for their young.
AND THEN THERE IS NOT, “The real world” but the two-sided world in a world of billions of ‘sides’…
SO this is what the whirlwind brought re Elizabeth’s apology, reiterated in literally millions of comments across the internet similar to these which are from “the new civil rights movement.com”
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Commenter 1.
So he fires her – big deal. Some other racist Republican fool will snatch her up and probably double her salary. She just demonstrated what a good little soldier she is for the cause of hatred and ignorance.
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Commenter 2.
She should not resign or be fired. Democraps, and blacks in particular, talk crap all the time and respect nothing and that’s ok, well, Liz said the truth and should be commended for it. B. Hussein Obamba dissed entire nation and doesn’t think, even remotely, of resigning.
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CODA
And so it goes for what in our world, might seem a passing funeral of one person’s poor judgment… but also dedicatedly remembering we were going to build together ‘the shining city on the hill” … an Eden-like ‘world without end’ that we would strive to build/ to return to in care and regard for all souls. Most of us can still see the decency of that city plan, and we still strive to build it… even though some make it harder for those of us intent to keep to the plan. Yet ever more so, not despite, but because of the blows to, and the ravages of –our own broken hearts, we shoulder the hod of adobe earth, we drag the canvas bucket, we climb the rungs… no matter the weathers. Let’s.