Newsweek gets the headline of the week award as it ponders the possibility of an post-election baby boom:
Hope and euphoria, says University of Washington sociologist Pepper Schwartz, are a serious aphrodisiac. And voters under 30 went for Obama by a margin of 2 to 1. When you combine those two elements -- randy people of child-bearing age -- the likely result is what the online Urban Dictionary has already dubbed "Obama Babies": children "conceived after Obama was proclaimed President, by way of celebratory sex." "If the amount of alcohol, happy people and major functions on election night is any indication, I suspect we'll indeed see a boom," says 25-year-old Brandon Mendelson, a graduate student in Albany, N.Y., who says he changed his vote at the last minute because "I wanted to be able to tell our future children that we voted for Obama."
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amazingdrx Posted 12:43 pm
17 Nov 2008
http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog John Schneider, Northern Wisconsin
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Delay And Deny Posted 1:31 pm
17 Nov 2008
Unfortunately for bassinet manufacturers, these voters are the type of "young people" who fit the profile of Infantile Adult Syndrome. They would tend to prolong marriage and child birth as long as possible to keep alive the image of themselves as snowboarding hipsters. They live in one bedroom condos in Seattle's Belltown and call people "Sir" -- even if they're 37.
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Avelhingst Posted 2:53 pm
17 Nov 2008
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caniscandida Posted 5:11 pm
17 Nov 2008
- No doubt same-sex couples across the land were equally drunk and celebratory, post Obama's victory. That there should ensue a "baby boom," however, is highly unlikely. "Not that there is anything wrong with that!," of course, as Jerry Seinfeld's friends might say:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Outing.
On the other hand, the shameful victory of Proposition 8 in California, and of a few other significant expressions of homophobia elsewhere, had a way of stifling the euphoria.
Meanwhile, environmentalists (aka "los sen~ores ambientalistas") seem still not to have girded their cojones firmly enough, so as to request: "You young drunk happy people!, Please refrain from conceiving on these premises! Just think of the outcome!"
Chickens deserve our true friendship! So do fish! So do other sentient beings! Let us learn to be kind.
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