Over Forty and Loving It!

I'm probably making a bad situation worse, but you know me. I can't keep my mouth shut to save my life.

Every time I hear the name Jon, Kate, or Gosslin my stomach sinks to the lowest common denominator and I feel like hurling. Granted, my digestive system hates me anyway, but this subject really gets the juices flowing.

First of all, let me say Jon is the epitome of what a man should NOT be. I never watched this show until my daughter dragged me into it last year when I spent the summer with her. I screamed and kicked the whole way. I was not disappointed. The kids were cute; the parents a train wreck waiting to happen. The writing was already on the wall. I could see the seeds already about to sprout.

He was whiny, he was lazy, and he was, and continues to be, a doosh bag. There, I said it.

Although I didn't much like her on a personal basis, and I questioned some of her decisions, my sympathies lay with Kate simply because mothering eight children is a momentous undertaking. I don't blame them for taking on the show, because how else in this economy are you going to support a family that size? And yes, she was on fertility drugs or whatever, but I'm sure she never expected to carry six kids to term. Having eight children (nine, if you count Jon, and I do) in the household takes a fortitude I'm not sure I could muster. Of course she was like a drill sargent -- think of the logistics alone!

Since the blow-out and Jon's chasing younger meat, I still sympathize with Kate. The nightmare has happened. Now she's a single mom and not only does she have to manage all those kids, she has to earn a living. Do I think she should ditch the show and go back to nursing? Sometimes. But once you cross the Rubicon it's rather difficult to go back, and I'm sure a nurse's salary doesn't go as far as one would think when you factor in eight children. And Jon continues to whine he can't find a job in his field -- but I highly doubt he's really seriously pursing it, at any rate. Too much fun to be had with a younger girlfriend and Hollywood parties to attend, dontcha know.

What i find especially reprehensible is the total disrespect Jon shows to the mother of his children. That disgusts me on a level that's hard to describe. Not that Kate has acted any better -- she needs to take the higher road, stay off the morning shows crying about her situation and keep her mouth shut. Difficult? Well, hell yes. But it doesn't do her children any good to hear the two of them bash each other right and left, and if you think those kids don't know the vitriol that's bubbling you're crazy. I read that Jon took the kids to see the sister and brother-in-law against Kate's wishes, and their betrayal of Kate (shame on you, brother! SHAME SHAME SHAME! A little pissed that you didn't get a piece of the money train? Hmmm. Accepting Jon like that smacks of scum pooling together) is just atrocious.

ONE of them has to stop the madness.

As far as the show goes, I don't believe it is so toxic to those children. C'mon. It's not like they're required to rehearse or learn lines or put in 20 hour days, for pete's sake. They run around like kids do and camera people film them. This production crew has been there since they were born! and are a surrogate family for these kids -- I think it does more harm to the kids by cutting them totally out of the picture than good. Jon is just full of sour grapes because Kate seems to be more popular (although they're both not popular in that sense, if you get me) and because his manhood took a hit. Which is funny, because the dude never had a manhood to start with.

He needs to shut up. She needs to shut up. If they put as much effort into their kids as they do skewering each other in the media, there wouldn't be anything for us common folk to read about. And actually, I'm okay with that.