Apparently, pregnancy is a fact of life these days.
Granted, it’s a glaring example of that scourge of sound-bite journalism, the Ill-Defined Antecedent. Nonetheless, this quote from this article is instructive:
“As long as Midge is married, I don’t have a problem with it,” said Kristin Morris from Newport News. “It’s a fact of life these days.”
Since the first “it” is a reference to Midge’s (inexplicably controversial) pregnancy, and reading the second “it” as referring only to that specific blessed event (“Midge’s pregnancy is a fact of life these days”) is a wee bit psychotic, one is left with the assumption that what Kristin Morris of Newport News (who doesn’t, we should repeat, have a problem with married dolls having children) wanted to say was, “Pregnancy is a fact of life these days.” —One could, perhaps, make a further assumption or two: perhaps she meant “Children aged six and up being aware of pregnancy as a concept is a fact of life these days.”
Nonetheless: doesn’t it make you want to grab one of these upset parents, these frowningly concerned ministers, grab them by the shoulder, perhaps (not too threateningly), look them in the eyes, and say, quite forcefully, “You know—your generation did not invent sex.”
—via Ignatz
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