Comments on: Babies?

By: KittKatt

KittKatt — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:45:54 +0000

HMTY- you carried/incubated your sister’s daughter? Cool.

By: Cranky Old Mission Guy

Cranky Old Mission Guy — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 19:25:01 +0000

OK, Ariel, I’ll bite. Frankly, I’m an old guy, and I have no young friends to ask about this, but I am not seeing any increase whatsoever in the number of baby strollers and parental-baby-fondlers on the street recently. Of course, I don’t get out on the street in the daytime all that often.

For my part, my childhood was such that I would never consider reliving the experience, and especially through a new creation of my loins.

In answer to your question about (presumably ‘sorta like us’) people making babies in the Mission… I would guess “Yes,” followed by, “Until they get fed-up with the realities of living here, when they’ll move to the suburbs like all the Latin-American families that used to live in my building.”

By: Ariel Dovas

Ariel Dovas — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:01:28 +0000

Wow, you seem like a really fun person to have a conversation with. But I guess I’m just trolling again.

By: kylem

kylem — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:36:34 +0000

Then don’t get all victimy when people lash out at you. You’re trolling, plain and simple.

By: kylem

kylem — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:35:06 +0000

How I am supposed to control another human being if you can’t even control yourself?

By: GG

GG — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 23:40:25 +0000

So you’re a jerk, and you’re raising your kid to be a jerk too? Sounds like she’ll fit right in with the public pee-ers and loud, vomiting drunks at 3am once she hits 17. Everybody wins!

By: Ariel Dovas

Ariel Dovas — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 21:14:28 +0000

kylem – I see that it got people riled up. This is not a new discussion, people always talk about Noe Valley as being the baby neighborhood, and the Mission as being the hipster neighborhood, I was just wondering what people thought about the hipsters having babies. I appreciate that people joined in to discuss it.

COMG – Dorky or pithy? Seriously, I don’t have any kind of grand thesis statement here, I was just wondering aloud. I addressed the demographic in the post as well, though maybe I wasn’t clear enough (?). Of course there are babies here. There are straight people in the Castro as well. There are white people in Chinatown. I was asking a broader question.

By: Cranky Old Mission Guy

Cranky Old Mission Guy — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 21:02:10 +0000

It’s a topic-opener that is probably ruined, right near the beginning, by the sentence, “Are babies coming to the Mission?” That’s just about the most dorky way imaginable of asking the question that you really wanted to ask: ‘Is another generation of Young Americans (who can afford to buy and discard car seats) now ready and willing to repopulate our neighborhood with its own offspring, and what will that mean to the neighborhood?

As other readers have pointed out, Latin and Asian Americans around here have never had to have a serious discussion about this.

By: Cranky Old Mission Guy

Cranky Old Mission Guy — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 20:45:02 +0000

Way to sidetrack the issue, Sweet T. Yes it was, though probably not on the television you viewed it from.

By: kylem

kylem — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 18:42:18 +0000

Skinheads would disagree with you.

By: kylem

kylem — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 18:41:24 +0000

Then I’m teaching my kid to have a fucking breakdown every time she’s in Pi Bar or La Taqueria. Or any where else I see you and your ironic mustache.

By: kylem

kylem — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 18:38:37 +0000

Ariel, you started an inflammatory conversation. And you should have known it would be as much considering how much opposition the hipsters in the mission have against kids and families in their neighborhood. It’s like asking if black people are really coming to your country club.

By: E

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 03:31:49 +0000

I think Rupert, the first poster, set a tone you didn’t intend.

By: Fabiana O.

Fabiana O. — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 07:57:17 +0000

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By: Cranky Old Mission Guy

Cranky Old Mission Guy — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 22:14:06 +0000

Aint gonna happen.