I was sitting at my computer once, listening to something on my headphones, just minding my own business, when there was suddenly a sharp *PING* in my right ear where my headphone was. At the same time, I felt something smack me in the side of the head.
I’m not going to sugar coat it. It hurt.
I whirled around to see what just happened and there stood my son Matthew, smiling and holding a wiffle ball bat.
He had just beaned me with it.
Turns out, his mother encouraged him to come hit me with it. She didn’t tell him to hit me in the head with it, but as much wrestling as we do, he just figured it was fair play.
See, families do this thing called “rough housing.” At least my family does.
So do Pam and Tim Tebow. In their Superbowl ad for Focus on the Family, Tim spears his mom on camera, for laughs:
It’s fun. But the President of the National Organization of Women sees it as domestic violence:
NOW president Terry O’Neill said it glorified violence against women. “I am blown away at the celebration of the violence against women in it,” she said. “That’s what comes across to me even more strongly than the anti-abortion message. I myself am a survivor of domestic violence, and I don’t find it charming. I think CBS should be ashamed of itself.”
I guess when you are too busy advocating the destruction of unborn babies, you really don’t have time to have a close family, like the Tebows clearly do.
According to O’Neill’s standards, I am a dsily victim of domestic violence. I am a survivor too. And I say lighten up.
