Babysitters' Winter Vacation...with a RANTS AHEAD warning

[the1812overture]

Prologue through Chapter OH GOD NO MORE
Chapters 5 through Chapter Whine
Chapter 9 through 13, or something like thatSo I fell victim to this thing known as THE HOLIDAYS.  It was a jolly holly one.  My daughter only asked Santa for one thing, which was an American Girl doll only one year, and 2016 it wasn't.  I'm magical mommy, and tracked the doll

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[the1812overture]

After hearing people lose their shit over dumb shit, you get desensitized.

EXACTLY! And that's a huge part of the problem. When you hear stuff that isn't *ist called *ist all the time, the moment you hear something else called *ist, you just tune it out, which can be dangerous when something really is *ist. (I was called racist AND sexist for not liking Beyoncé's new album, and for thinking she's pretty overrated--she's a fine singer, but I don't think she's the greatest thing ever deserving of being called America's literal queen. It doesn't matter that my favorite bands are black Motown bands, and that I nearly hyperventilated with Wanye Morris gave me a rose in 2015. I'm still racist for not specifically being a fan of Beyoncé.)

Which Summer Camp book? Is that Camp Mohawk? I'll need to re-read it. The two incidents I can think of at Keep Out, Claudia, and a couple girls making faces in Hello, Mallory (I admit, though that those faces could just be a couple girls making dumb faces at each other just because rather than the result of Jessi being in the room, meaning that this one only counts because I'm stretching it.)

I've yelled at my daughter to get back inside when she's run out of the house to play with kids we already know and she didn't ask first if she can go out (unless he has homework or chores, I always say yes, but asking rather than telling makes sure she knows I heard her.)

There are a lot of art styles, even European, that I don't care for. I'm not a fan of Picasso. But there are some that are abstracts that I love, usually sculptures. I know a lot of people who outright hate the art types associated with their own cultures. I really don't get how disliking the aesthetics of another art form inherently makes someone racist.

I read Jessi's Prank MANY years ago, and on't remember that scene. I'll have to re-read it again. Holy shit, nose rings have been associated with MANY cultures in history, including white-European cultures!! Did she really think that Kristy, a 13-year-old, not wanting a NOSE RING meant racism?! Kristy doesn't even want earrings!! And how would Jessi's parents being home mean that someone isn't racist? That doesn't even make sense!!

I think Jessi must have been exposed to people who think everything is racist. Though Jessi grew up without experiencing racism (it supposedly wasn't until Stoneybrook that suddenly she's a target), her parents and grandparents are the right age to have gone through the Civil Rights era. If they harbor views that all white people are racist, then they may have taught her that, which would be wrong of them. But we never see them exhibiting any sort of racism. Since Jessi's pretty conceited, I think it just never passed through her head that there could be other reasons she didn't get cast as Peter Pan, or that her behavior might be why someone doesn't like her, or that someone just plain doesn't want body jewelry and it has nothing to do with race. I don't see Jessi with a nose ring.