Just when it was cute and fun to be a pirate, the headlines go and ruin it. Shouldn't we be able to come up with a different name for these modern pirates? I don't know - burglars, smugglers, kidnappers, sea criminals - something that I don't typically encourage Sophia to pretend to BE.
Now I have to endure an inner battle each time she puts on the pirate hat and eye patch (and this probably happens more here than with most 2-year-old girls). Should I really be encouraging her to pretend to be someone who ransacks ships and holds people for ransom? Probably not. It was one thing when I could pretend she was just a harmless 19th century pirate. Their pillaging, etc. was far enough in the past that it could be distorted and softened with images of Johnny Depp and, yes, Errol Flynn. But it will take some pretty serious casting to make these current characters into lovable but messy pranksters.
Just saying.
I guess we could always ask that she pretend to be a wall street banker, but then she would also be guilty of looting, burglarizing, and general badness.
ReplyDeleteIf it makes you feel better they call themselves {a href="http://www.alternet.org/audits/136288/we%27re_being_lied_to_about_pirates/"}Volnteer Coastgaurd of Somalia{/a}.
ReplyDeleteanyway, they call themselves the volunteer coastgaurd of somalia.
ReplyDeletehere is the link
http://www.alternet.org/audits/136288/we%27re_being_lied_to_about_pirates/
apparently you can't imbed links in comments, sorry.
Well, that does make me feel better because it's not catchy at all.
ReplyDeleteErick brings up an excellent point....maybe we better stick to the eye-patch and parrot
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