Bitch moan bitch moan bitch moan bitch.

Oh no, Del Taco is using “bagged a hottie” as a double-entendre. Maybe next time, explain to your kid it means there is hot food in the bag that has said slogan on it and MOVE ON WITH YOUR FUCKING TERRIBLE LIFE. Go back to watching (shocker coming…) American Idol and getting excited listening to these fairy pop singers.

I don’t disagree with being mad about things that are not appropriate for kids in pop culture, but mainly I take issue to things like showing gore on primetime TV or parents who don’t read the fucking age rating on the video game box (NOT the video game itself). In fact, this woman has the same line of thinking that I do on quite a few things from the posts I scanned. It just seems like that anger is just taken out on everything, rather than on the stuff that matters. Don’t hate all of rap music for hurting your kids, hate that it is marketed to kids and on Top 40 stations. Rap is just fine for some older teenagers and adults who understand it. Rap is not fine for the 8 year old listening to the same radio station you are that also mixes in Colby Caillet.

Similarly, some hot fashions where women show off all their tits are appropriate for bars, night clubs, concerts, etc., but not for clothing stores (I agree here with her here).

What I think annoys me the most is the American-syndrome this woman has. Her ex took her kid to France and let her daughter drink some alcohol, and she is 15 years old. Well, I drank when I was 15 too, and younger at the dinner table on holidays I was allowed a glass of Chardonnay. Children should be raised with alcohol and learn how to handle it adequately by not over-drinking at the dinner table, rather than be thrown into college where booze flows freely and kids go nuts and do stupid shit like “Girls Gone Wild” (or really smart shit, as long as you don’t see your daughter while you are watching it). I intend to allow my kids to drink early on because I want them to know how to use it. I rarely get shit-faced anymore, but I do have a glass or two of wine multiple times a week or will head to a bar with coworkers and get loose. If I’m driving, I know how to monitor myself and when to stop, and often I’m the one who stays nearly sober to drive other people home because I can appreciate just a few beers and know that I need to have some water, go to the bathroom, etc. to come down a bit and be basically straight before getting behind the wheel.

It is this kind of overbearing and protecting your kids from EVERYTHING rather than teaching them appropriately or simply PAYING ATTENTION and straining out the truly bad things that is going to hurt this woman and her kids in the long run. There was a post she linked to about tips on how to maintain relations with your kids without screwing their social life up. For example, blocking MySpace is just stupid, but you can do parental controls and monitor how they use it. And that is great and SHOULD be used by parents, and I give her a bravo here. I just think she is going off the deep end on some things a little too much and her kids will not make critical mistakes that are necessary for development until it is too late. I can’t say for sure since I don’t know her, but bitching about Del Taco saying “bagged a hottie” is pretty sad. She also thought this would be along the same lines as “Eat my taco,” which actually would be a perfectly fine slogan in my opinion. There are nicknames for EVERYTHING out there. How could you be upset if Del Taco actually did say “Eat my taco” exactly? What if Burger King said “Eat my burger?” I’m sure somewhere someone uses “burger” as slang for something else.

By the way, does anyone else want to bet this woman doesn’t even give blowjobs to any man she is with? After reading this blog, it is not a shock at all to find out that she is divorced, most likely single, and upset that he has money to pay for things (like a limo for her daughter to a homecoming) which she does not.

Oh, and by the way, if you are so uptight that you blocked your 15-year-old, sophomore daughter from visiting “meez.com” because someone messaged her “I like to touch boobs” and “Can I borrow your vaginal cream?” then this outfit is not acceptable for homecoming either. Either way, if you block your teenage daughter over “boobs” and “vaginal cream” (the first of which she’ll hear every day in high school, the second of which she ought to know about by now), then you need to get her into a chastity belt that has a GPS locator on it until she is 35. That is absurd and I feel horrible for this girl’s daughter.

I do want to give props to the points about toilet-papering. My mom yelled at my step-dad for tearing it down one morning when my brother was supposed to wake up and see it before school. When did suburban American decide TP’ing was ok to take away from kids? By take away, I mean “make it about as cool as the guy who is at a restaurant with a bluetooth on his ear while eating with his family.”

There is a bigger theme here that screams about the ignorance of Americans and how they don’t bother to research, just shun everything at the slightest hint of them getting offended or disliking something. To just say “violent video games” are bad is ignorant at the highest level. Some of our great soldiers are trained using video games that are very similar (hell, the Army even funded America’s Army and made it free to play to give you an idea of what being in the army might be like). For adults, myself included, it is great stress relief even though I’m terrible at most first-person shooter games. Why is watching a movie like “Pearl Harbor” ok, but playing a game that lets you re-enact it to see what it was like and kill people not? The important thing is that the person playing it is mature enough to understand that it is a game, for entertainment value, and it does not condone doing things like this in real life.

By the way, as part of the “blogosphere,” if I had a Del Taco nearby like I did when I lived in Phoenix, I would immediately jump in my car, run down, and order their scrumptuous burger and some tacos and ask specifically for the “bagged a hottie” bag. I shant be participating in this woman’s boycott on Del Taco.

-Falaris