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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What exactly is your problem with this? And what is a classically attractive family? Are we talking about race, gender, weight, clothing, what?

Use your words precisely. Don't leave us hanging and guessing.[/quote]

He says like a Norman Rockwell painting; classically all-American. He thinks these days it’s so uncommon for attractive young people to have a bunch of kids that it is compliment-worthy when you see it. I think he’s yearning for more grandkids and this is his outlet. But it’s still a little forward, to me.[/quote]

Wow. He just owns his racism, doesn't he? What an awful person. Tell him he's racist until he pays for an equal number of Black, Hispanic, Asian, Arab, multi-racial families and generally not Scandinavian-white families.[/quote]

Eh. Paying for a black family and making some kind of compliment like this is just asking for an issue. Especially if the guy is what we all sort of assume. It’s going to come off like “oh hey look, a black family where the father is still around! Let me buy them a lunch.”

I think the compliment is nice. Who cares if it’s deployed in a racist way (assuming he’s not like criticizing or antagonizing non “nice looking families”)? It’s still adding to the overall joy and kindness in the universe.

The paying, while well meaning, is a little odd. But if it’s done silently and you’re gone before the recipients know, I don’t think it’s creepy. (Admit I’ve done this—secretly paid things for other people—because it makes me feel good. Though I don’t just do it for looking like a nice family.) [/quote]

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