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E: (at the dinner table) Who are you going to the gym with?
B: Rapists! Who are going to rape me in the locker room! A lot of rapists! R, do you even know what rapists are?! You don't! I am going to the gym with RAPISTS!!
... and the translation from teenager speak is, I guess, is: I don't want to have to justify my relationships to you.
He's also making a statement about E's relationship with R here, too. E is very protective of R. I think she should be able to walk a block to the school bus stop herself and E thinks it's dangerous.
So this was actually an incredibly layered and astute commentary on the issues and dynamics in our family. B is trying to push back at what he views as E's interference in his independent social life. He's making fun of R for being an innocent and showing of his superior knowledge of the world. He is needling E for being overprotective of R. He's trying to drive a wedge between me and E in our dispute over R's independence.
If only he could be that perceptive and not scream R A P I S T at the dinner table.
B: Rapists! Who are going to rape me in the locker room! A lot of rapists! R, do you even know what rapists are?! You don't! I am going to the gym with RAPISTS!!
... and the translation from teenager speak is, I guess, is: I don't want to have to justify my relationships to you.
He's also making a statement about E's relationship with R here, too. E is very protective of R. I think she should be able to walk a block to the school bus stop herself and E thinks it's dangerous.
So this was actually an incredibly layered and astute commentary on the issues and dynamics in our family. B is trying to push back at what he views as E's interference in his independent social life. He's making fun of R for being an innocent and showing of his superior knowledge of the world. He is needling E for being overprotective of R. He's trying to drive a wedge between me and E in our dispute over R's independence.
If only he could be that perceptive and not scream R A P I S T at the dinner table.