I don’t expect people to wave at me because I don’t look a certain way or dress in the latest upper-middle-class styles. In my experience, THAT’s who receives the friendly waves. I mind my own business and avoid eye contact so I at least don’t get the mean glare reserved for those who aren’t wearing stylish clothing…

I’ll get off my high horse when the elitists who look down on me for murdering a vowel now and then (I’m Southern) stop calling me uneducated on that account.  I defy them to catch me in a usage error.  

These two are just spelling differences rather than pronunciation differences, but I see “reign it in” and “social cache” a lot...when it’s supposed to be “rein it in” and “cachet.”  

Here’s one I seem to hear a lot:  “gourmand” in place of “gourmet.”  I was taught that “gourmand” meant “someone who eats a lot,” rather than someone who is discriminating about ingredients, cooking, taste etc.  

Boxing Helena 

Anyone remember _In the Company of Men?_   There was a big debate when it came out about whether there really were men like that.  Roger Ebert said “Of course there are...I know them!”  (Two guys plotted on purpose to date and then dump and emotionally hurt a blind woman on purpose to take out their revenge on other…

The QAnon Casualties subreddit is full of marriages and families that have recently broken up because a previously perfectly normal family member got into QAnon and next thing you know they’re convinced JFK Jr. is alive and teaming up with Trump to save children who are being harvested from tunnels etc. etc. just like…

And another thing! (me again!) There’s a stereotype that the schools in the Deep South in working-class areas are no good. That wasn’t true in my era (the 1970's) in my state (South Carolina) I got a good education. We could opt out of P.E. starting in third grade and substitute French and violin. Our French teachers…

One of my favorite teachers was a homeroom teacher in junior high who made us keep up with current events and gave us trivia questions each day on current events!  That’s how I’ll always remember the speaker of the house was Carl Albert!  (in the 70's)

What? I haven’t. I never needed to. That may sound like a brag but it’s really a grudge. See, I’m a working-class woman from the Deep South. And I aced standardized tests. Every time. I was a National Merit scholar (full-ride scholarship to the institution of my choice, although I’m not sure if those are full-ride…

At least Lee Atwater, when facing death, was somewhat repentant for his vile and hateful political tricks.  I hear tell it was because he was afraid of going to Hell. 

Some of the most conservative meanies I know are Gen. X’ers  

I don’t post about this on R_A because there’s no reason to, and it kinda sounds self-congratulatory at a time like this, but my husband is being a sweetie-pie and a half through all this.  He’s not perfect, but neither am I... but he’s actually surprising me (so far) on how much of a sweetie pie he’s being.  I gave…

I know you don’t think we exist, but I’m 63 and my husband is 74 and we’re both Bernie voters.  

I’ll see your John Cusack and raise you an Annie Potts in Pretty in Pink.  

Yeah, in 1986 men were waving that Newsweek article around to put us in our place...the one projecting that a woman not married by 40 was more likely to be killed by terrorists than to marry. At the same time, they had “Fatal Attraction” to taunt us with, as well.

That would be “Bobos” 

Also, a lot of the harm Boomers are being excoriated for is actually perpetrated by Don Draper’s generation.  One generation between Greatest and Boomers.  Not that there aren’t plenty of conservative Boomers, but there are also plenty of conservative people older than Boomers, who parrot the ideas attributed to…

Isn’t she Oprah’s buddy?  Learned from the best. 

I’m on