21st-Century Relationships?

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That’s what @Instapundit might call this story. On the other hand, some people might call it . . . RAAAAACISM!

White Lesbian Sues Sperm Bank
After Having Black Baby
. . . Jennifer Cramblett and Amanda Zinkon, a White couple living in Ohio selected sperm from a White male provided by the Midwest Sperm Bank. Cramblett used the sperm to become impregnated with her first child, but just months before little Payton arrived in August of 2012 Cramblett received a communication from the donor bank informing her she had been given the wrong sperm.
Her baby would be Black.
Unsurprisingly Cramblett is suing the sperm bank for “wrongful birth and breach of warranty.”

From the lawsuit:

One of Jennifer’s biggest fears is the life experiences Payton will undergo, not only in her all-white community, but in her all-white, and often unconsciously insensitive, family. Despite her family’s attempts to accept her homosexuality, they have not been capable of truly embracing Jennifer for who she is. They do not converse with her about her gender preference, and encourage her not to “look different,” signaling their disapproval of her lesbianism. Though compelled to repress her individuality amongst family members, Payton’s differences are irrepressible, and Jennifer does not want Payton to feel stigmatized or unrecognized. . . .
Jennifer’s stress and anxiety intensify when she envisions Payton entering an all-white school. Ironically, Jennifer and Amanda moved to Uniontown from racially diverse Akron, because the schools were better and to be closer to family. Jennifer is well aware of the child psychology research and literature correlating intolerance and racism with reduced academic and psychological well-being of biracial children.

Dude, that’s not a tort complaint. That’s a reality TV scenario. You’re telling me the Bravo network didn’t set up this “accident”?

You know somewhere a Women’s Studies professor is trying to figure out a way to blame this on the heteronormative patriarchy.

 

61 comments

  2. ‘Tis a bit presumptuous of the lesbians here to declare the child a “girl” just because she (obviously) looks like one, I should think…

  4. Can’t fix crazy and I wouldn’t be the least surprised to find that this “stunt” is deliberate on someone’s part.

  5. There is a piece of advice, a piece of wisdom, that had been passed down for many, many generations in the civilized world. It’s a piece of advice that even ditzy blondes can remember: Avoid the groyd.

  6. “Ironically, Jennifer and Amanda moved to Uniontown from racially diverse Akron, because the schools were better and to be closer to family.”

    And because Akron had too many black people.

  7. I think these ladies are deliberately mis-characterizing their town’s racial animus for the leverage it gives their claim. But what do I know.

  10. , , , in. . . her . . . often unconsciously insensitive, family. (Emphasis Added).

    That prepositional phrase would be good for about 60 minutes worth of deposition questions, especially when combined with the next subordinate clause: “Despite her family’s attempts to accept her homosexuality . . .”

    What she’s conceding in the complaint is that her family is trying to be decent but in her mind, they’ve not done enough. In other words, her damages are in her own head.

    And, N.B. the commodification of a human life. This child is nothing more than an accessory to her life; the child is not a human being worthy of love and respect, but merely a piece of property delivered with the wrong “upholstery.” And if the child is a female, where’s the “war on women” hashtag when we need it?

  14. “Though compelled to repress her individuality amongst family members, Payton’s differences are irrepressible…”

    Uh-oh, there goes the sexual deviance is the new black meme.

  15. An app on my mobile sends me alerts on developments in gay marriage, but it never sends me links to the best ones—like this one!

  18. Does this mean that the black man who donated the sperm will now be arrested for rape?

    These situations confuse me so much.

  19. Sounds like the kid’s life will simply be too hard to live through.

    Better call in Richard Dawkins to put her down. (It’s for the kid’s own good, of course.)

  20. It’s funny that my wife and I were never at risk of getting a baby from an unexpected racial background. What could be possibly different in these relationships that are apparently equal to ours in all ways?

  21. ding ding ding ding ding

    Give the fellow a prize.

    I’m increasingly coming to the opinion that ultra-liberals are so fired up about white-privilege and racism because they live in a cess-pool of snobby snots and they think that’s how the normal working-class thinks… but with cheaper shoes and poor haircuts. I grew up, not only in a lily-white region, but as white as it’s possible to get without being albino (come to think of it, there was a family with two albino girls that went to my school… so in their own grades, something like 1:40 albinos.

    30 years ago the biracial black girl was voted prom queen at the private boarding school I had a job at right in the middle of all that blinding white. She thought that was remarkable. And it probably was 30 YEARS AGO. But even 30 years ago, 30 YEARS, all the young people thought that racism was stupid stuff grown-ups did.

    It just blows my mind. Where do these people live that they don’t have a neighbor who is black or at the least Korean or Iranian or something? Oh, right… Uniontown.

  22. I’m thinking that it’s certainly possible that they moved there because of the probable percentage of the population that would not embrace the lesbian lifestyle.

    Two women, looking for reasons to file lawsuits to force others to “celebrate” their sinful life choices. And look, they’ve already found a “reason” to start, because…riddle me this, Batman…when is a tort not a tort?

  23. Oh my gosh, don’t get me started.

    First of all, when you decide to have cup-a-soup children, you have no idea what you’re getting; not really. How well do sperm banks screen their prospective donors? I’m guessing not extensively, because what sort of man does this…potentially “fathering” children and having no interest as to who or where they are? And who or what their mother(s) is/are? Who knows what recessive genes these donors are bringing to the…uh…table?

    And what’s more, they get test tubes of babies by mail? Is that how it works? Mail order babies? And then what? They rip open the package and…do…what? Cue the turkey baster jokes…3…2…1.

  25. Is there money and possible notoriety in it? Are we living in total depraved times?

    Nah. Couldn’t be deliberate. What are you saying, Adobe, that some, oh, television network, perhaps, would possibly conspire to ruin the lives of innocent people just to make a buck? Oh come on…what would be the odds of that?

  26. I think that you’re overestimating the self-awareness here. These two wanted to have a white baby in a white neighborhood, and now they’re scrambling to register their disappointment and make some money without giving themselves away as racists.

  29. It’s general principle in IT that cabled data transfers are more reliable and secure. No surprise it holds true for bio data cables.

  30. Sorry for hogging the comments, but this one is juicier the more you dig. Item 7 of the lawsuit states right up front as a ‘Fact Common to All Claims’ that Jennifer Cramblett…is a lesbian.

    My first thought is “why does this matter,” but, of course it matters. It’s all that matters. Reading the paragraph quoted above (also from the lawsuit) about poor ol’ Jennifer’s fears, it’s all about her… With homosexuals it’s always about them…they are all freaking narcissists.

  31. Possibly, but you know, when you’re talking about people who represent…I’ll generously say 3% of the population…in other words, abnormal people, they are subject to think, do, or say literally anything.

  32. If these lesbians came off as overtly racist at the fertility clinic, then perhaps someone deliberately switched turkey basters on the couple out of spite…

  33. Hahahaha! These days, there is absolutely nothing that would surprise me. Nothing.

    There was a time when pictures of donkeys with tongues hanging out of their mouths would surprise me, but now I’m all, “Yeah, I know, right?”

    If I were watching the news and I saw live footage of alien spaceships landing on the White House lawn, I’d sigh and start flipping channels to see what else was on. And I don’t even have a TV.

  35. I want to say Whitey McWhiteville. And let me just add that I’d like to live in a place actually called that. Just to PO Jesse Jackson and the SPLC.

  43. Employing “Ye Olde Kaitlyn Hunt Defence”, I should think—though I really doubt we’re going to see this tribe’s gleaming visage on the home page at The Advocate web site for eight straight continuous months!

  45. This is dizzying. I’m just glad I was conceived in the 60s when we treated homosexuality with psychiatry, not matrimony, and we treated racism with MLK instead of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.

  46. They wanted a little white girl because that’s what they prefer sexually. White women are the preferred hump for all perverts except gay men. Luckily for the perverts white women don’t seem to mind.

  47. A couple in Arizona(?) pretended to launch their son in an aluminium balloon to attempting to get another TV show. Is this couples attorny attached to an agent or talent company?
    I wrote in another thread that it’s impossible to write parody anymore perhaps the time has come wherein it’s almost as difficult to write farce?

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  49. Have they done a DNA test yet? That seems to be the next step. There are other ways for a woman to get pregnant besides using a turkey baster. Saying there was a mix-up at the sperm clinic would be a rather convenient excuse and then the thing would snowball from there.

  50. I read somewhere that she’s only suing for 50 grand. Doesn’t seem like very much, all things considered. She must not have a Jew lawyer.

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