This world, in many ways supports hypocrisy. For example, people are told that they cannot speak ill of the dead so at a funeral, the eulogy usually sounds like a résumé for a Nobel Prize nominee. You go to a funeral for one of these so-called dons and all you hear is how great he was and how he helped this person and how he saved that person. There is no mention of how many people he killed, or had killed or how much drugs he sold to innocent kids who go on to become addicts. Yeah, the world teaches people how to become hypocrites.

Like, you will never hear someone say that a baby is ugly, at least not out loud. Looking at the baby and keeping the appropriate distance, you'll most likely hear someone say "Hey there." Followed by something like "Who do you look like, mommy or daddy?" You'll never hear the usual, 'He's so cute' because that would be a barefaced lie.

Genetic mould

Babies generally are cute. Their little eyes, noses and mouths and their little fingers and toes make them look like little dolls. But while dolls are made from a mould, they are usually all cute. Babies on the other hand, are 'manufactured' from their parents' genes and sometimes those genes were not meant to procreate.

It's like everybody knows that oil and water don't mix, that milk and orange juice don't go well together and that combining sodium and water has very explosive consequences. Like-wise, some genes do not combine well and end in horrific results.

How many of you watch the Maury Show now on the new channel The CW, the end result of the merging of UPN and The WB, which by the way, is turning out to be a beautiful thing. Ever seen those DNA shows where some nasty-looking women get as many as a dozen men tested to see who their baby daddies are? Take a look at some of those kids. They're tragic, frightening even! But, you're not allowed to say so and that sucks.

It sucks because people expect you to lie. I know every parent sees their child, (especially their baby, as being beautiful) but that's partly because they don't have a choice. It's not like they can take the kid back to the hospital and say this is not mine, or I don't want it anymore.Okay, they can, but they'd probably be sent to prison, but parents really don't have that choice. So they have to 'pretend' that the kid is cute until they become immune to the ugliness or hope that the child grows out of it. Of course, if the parents themselves are ugly, they can't jolly well expect a kid looking like Denzel.

Cringe-worthy

The thing is I don't believe I should be forced to hold back my feelings when someone shows me a child that makes me wince with discomfort and then asks me if I want to hold it. Hell no!

If the child looks like Freddy Krueger, I don't want to be so intimate with it. I prefer to be given the option to say "I'd rather not, if you don't mind." And if I am asked why, I also should have the right to say "I don't wanna be holding no ugly baby, that's why!"

And why shouldn't I? It's not my fault.

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