Being Misunderstood

When one writes a blog, there always is the chance of being quoted by someone else. This has happened to me three times--that I know of. A part of my "review" of my laptop was quoted by someone else commenting on the computer industry. There was a link--okay, so it actually wasn't a quote--on the Washington Post site listing me as "Who's Blogging" when I quoted an article they had about Warren Buffet. Now, today, I find that I have been quoted here.

I don't usually care what is said about me--I HAVE had some less than welcome comments posted to me in the past--but I felt I needed to address this article, if for nothing more than my own piece of mind. When I read the article, I came away thinking "what an ass--how could she think that 'buying' children is funny?" Then I realized I was thinking this about myself after reading my quote in this article. And THEN I thought--about the person who had written this--GET A LIFE! I was STRICTLY commenting on the celebrity aspect of adopting (read that as 'buying'--in a lot of cases) children from other countries. (And, frankly, it is my total disdain for Brangelina that caused me to comment in the first place. I NEVER said anything about Meg Ryan and her newly adopted daughter.) I in no way even thought about the horrors of baby-trafficking--as I am sure the person who wrote the original article in the LA Times never did.

Sarcasm is lost on a lot of people--even more so on the web. I KNOW people feel my sarcasm when they hear me, I guess it isn't always apparent in the written form. So, for whatever it is worth--all sincerity, no sarcasm intended--I apologize if I offended anyone when I commented the way I did. I feel for people who cannot have children, who are having difficulties adopting, etc, etc, and I didn't mean to offend.

And I still, TOTALLY, believe there is more to do with publicity than wanting to be a good person in a lot of these celebrity 'baby-buying' deals. So there.