Yeah, whatever.

You shouldn’t have to thank people for doing their job. Thanks for feeding me mom, I would have died otherwise and you would have gone to prison.

Because white baby boomers are selfish, reactionary, ignorant, coddled, entitled canker sores who will have leached all of the resources from their parents, children, and grandchildren before they all shuffle off this mortal coil?

more evidence of your blind privilege: the fact that you can look at these issues as merely “political” and not “life threatening.” enjoy your cake.

Are you serious? It means that just because someone is your family doesn’t mean you should excuse their beliefs that put you in danger and don’t recognize you as a human. You didn’t get that? Fund the schools, people. 

Well said, Lana, and same here. I’ve in my experience, after decades apart these same people start slowly back in with micro-aggressions that quickly become macro-aggressions, and they use the attempt at reconciliation as an opportunity for them to beat on you and try to prove they were right all along. That shirt!…

If you consider this stuff bullshit, you’re either so privileged that you can afford not to pay attention or you’re wilfully ignoring it to the point of agreement. Skate on.

same. i havent had any meaningful contact with my mom in 8 years and my life is so much better because of it. the negative energy she brought into my life was not worth it anymore.

Oof, that’s the sound of someone who has had the privilege of a parent who hasn’t emotionally, physically, or sexually abused you until you had to take the socially unacceptable step of protecting yourself by distancing yourself from them. You don’t owe your parents your love, fidelity, and respect if they never…

The notion that adult children owe their parents anything other than regarding them openly and honestly is an absurd anachronism that should be dead by now. Children don’t choose to be born. They don’t choose their blood relatives. People don’t owe shit for a situation they didn’t accept or create.

The best thing we did was to cut out my in-laws. My daughter dreaded staying with them because of their shit. The election was the final straw. They haven’t seen their granddaughter in over 8 months. They fucking hate it and are trying everything (except repenting for being racist) to get back in our good graces. Nope.

Yuuuuup.

THIS.

Don’t blame the writer for your lack of reading comprehension. The term made perfect sense to me.

As the saying goes, “You are not required to set yourself on fire to keep other people warm.”

really? It’s that hard for you to understand poetic license and move from one phrase to the next? If it is true that blood is thicker than water (which is an idiom for crying out loud), then saying blood is *not* thicker than [insert item] is clearly referencing the idiom and playing with it. Don’t be thick (*ahem*…

“The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb.”

Hint: thicker = importance.

I had a coworker who cut her parents off right after the election. She’s white, a lesbian in an interracial marriage (her wife is Latina). Her parents voted for 45. She was like “No, we will not be coming to your house for Thanksgiving, and I see no need for us to speak further.” She has 3 or 4 siblings who are like…

The expression “blood is thicker than water” originally meant that the bond between comrades is stronger than family, as in bathing in the blood of your enemies is a pretty powerful bonding experience, and it has been bastardized into meaning the exact opposite.