Clay Aiken to be a Daddy! — Page 3

I know it's not what you meant, Addy, and it's nothing personal, but I don't really think that just because some of us like it up the butt means we have to approve of every last bit of lunacy out there. Besides, what they've done is totally legal, and no states are out there trying to enact laws to prevent this from happening. Who is the laugh really on?

For those of us who do things society doesn't accept, we're often derided for the detrimental effect we'll have on the "children." As was already pointed out before, I'm not sure a parent who'll be a senior citizen long before this kid gets out of grade school is necessarily in the best interests of the child.

No one tried to rally us behind those polygamists. The expectation of moral equivalency simply because two different things happen to fall out of the expectation of "normal" isn't fair.

Clay Aiken is a freakshow. He sold his soul to American Idol and its spoils, so much so that he feels he's got to be an 30 year old eunuch in the public eye. He's cagey to the point that its laughable, yet he doesn't seem to get the joke. Now he's inseminated some middle-aged woman with a dude's name. It's a little funny, at least to me. But it's schaudenfraude, I guess, because he really skeeves me out.

Pregnant at fifty - there's more artificial going on than the insemination.

I dunno. A guy fathers a child at eighty and he's virile. I'm sure that there is an age for motherhood where even I draw the line, but I don't think fifty is it. Yes, it's a higher risk pregnancy, but aren't many these days?

I just don't really see the problem here. A woman-man-woman baring his/her pregnant belly on the front of the Star is a publicity stunt.

Maybe this really IS just friendship, even if the denizens of BWW don't approve of the individuals involved.

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Cut to 9 months time to discover Clay coming round having fainted on the delivery room floor....

Clay - 'eww what was that thing...?'

Midwife - 'Your Child!'

Clay - 'No that thing it came out of'

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So many things ran through my head at once:

Closet Cases are so whacky.

He's going to have a baby? Wow, he's not showing a bit yet.

Some people should not duplicate - Clay is one of them.

Clay: If you want to do something nice for the kid when he's born - come out , be yourself and set a good example for your kid.

I really don't think it's the issue that they are doing something society doesn't accept. It is the rather unusual individual components of this particular case that are most amusing. But as I said before, I have seen the stress and difficulties of a child being raised by parents 50 years older than themselves and I stand by what I said.

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Don't tell me our Addy is a Claymate!

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I didn't see it as condescending at all. That's not really Addy's style. I don't particularly agree with her in this instance, but I don't think she was condescending anyone.

It is the rather unusual individual components of this particular case that are most amusing.

Matt said what I was trying to say there, with a lot more clarity and simplicity than I can muster.

I adore Addy and I get what she's saying. I just wanted to clarify that I'm not being totally flippant about the situation.

I dont like your condescending tone!

LOL That's a little pot/kettle, wouldn't you say?

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Wow. If the child is--God forbid--stillborn will there be a funeral with a glass coffin so TMZ and all the celebrity gawkers can see whether or not it looked like Clay?

Don't groan--Jean Seberg had to do it when her stillborn baby was rumored to be fathered by a Black Panthers leader.

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