Someone posted that question on Park Slope Parents this morning, which I interpreted as an attempt to make fun of the Is there a Park Slope in Boston? thread on Park Slope Parents.
The headline was followed by this:
I
checked
the
archives
and
can’t
find
any
neighborhood
quite
like
Park
Slope
in
Iraq.
They
all
seem
to
have
drawbacks…The
streets
of
Baghdad
are
too
bumpy
for
our
Mountain
Buggy,
Mosul
doesn’t
seem
to
have
a
Red
Hot
equivalent,
and
Basrah
isn’t
getting
a
Trader
Joes
until
2062
(according
to
their
webpage).
Any
help
would
be
appreciated.
I’m guessing the writer was trying to make a point, like, hey, there’s a war going on and 54 people were killed and 123 wounded in terror attacks yesterday in Baghdad. Let’s not be quite so myopic about our lives here in Park Slope.
Do you think that’s what the writer intended?
Do you think it was just silly and in bad taste.
The comment seems to have annoyed at least one person who said he found it to be in incredibly bad taste and is surprised that the moderators allowed it. He makes the point that there are doubtless people on the listserve, who have friends and relatives serving in Iraq.
Bad taste? Potent sarcasm? An attempt to put things into perspective. I contacted the person who wrote it for a comment. Will be interested to hear more from her.
Besides tasteless I found the post rather condescending towards the original poster. After all, it was a legit question, a member of the community seeking advise just to be belittled by another member of the community. Besides, more superficial questions have been posted on PSP, but it wouldn’t dawn on me to leave a sarcastic response to it because a)I don’t have the time, and b) I have more important issues to worry about.