I'm sorry you had the fight, but go you for fighting the battle. I don't think I like the men in Sven's family. Why would you want them to like you? You don't fit into their idea of women, thankfully, and I hope it stays that way.
I also don't like that Sven thinks you should be pushed under in the first place. What's wrong with happily floating around? You can agree to disagree, right?
I love the idea of arguing with you being like a cork in water. Because that cork always wins. : )
I have a hard time being patient with people who don't get feminism or racism (and other isms) too. You've lived in the world, right? You're an adult? You can read, and you've listened to our cultural conversation on this issue even a little? How can you be so ignorant as to believe that's acceptable?I'm not as angry about it, though. I tend to say something. But move on. But that's at work and in the world, where I feel more and more respected (and respectful, weirdly enough). Family members, it's just super frustrating. When we all meet up at my grandmother's house, I sit at what I've started to think of as the 'allies' table, and avoid the table where I will hear Trump supporters and racist comments about how lazy poor (meaning black) people are. And how everyone should stop complaining and get jobs
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I also don't like that Sven thinks you should be pushed under in the first place. What's wrong with happily floating around? You can agree to disagree, right?
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I have a hard time being patient with people who don't get feminism or racism (and other isms) too. You've lived in the world, right? You're an adult? You can read, and you've listened to our cultural conversation on this issue even a little? How can you be so ignorant as to believe that's acceptable?I'm not as angry about it, though. I tend to say something. But move on. But that's at work and in the world, where I feel more and more respected (and respectful, weirdly enough). Family members, it's just super frustrating. When we all meet up at my grandmother's house, I sit at what I've started to think of as the 'allies' table, and avoid the table where I will hear Trump supporters and racist comments about how lazy poor (meaning black) people are. And how everyone should stop complaining and get jobs ( ... )
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