Your biofather's choices don't reflect on who you are as a person. They reflect on who HE is as a person. Which is, by and large, a selfish, short-sighted jerkface. He has his moments of goodness, sure, but then broken clocks are right twice a day, too, and in the case of clocks, it isn't Time that has something wrong with it, just the busted clock.
You get to call him on his faults. It's calling a spade a spade.
Sigh. *hugs so much* You always seem to say the things that somehow this fits several of the situations that happened in my day. Today it's no less true, about things both written and not written about here.
*snugs you more* Did you read Ces' post about Puerarchy? (It really should be Paedarchy, per comments, but whatev.) This idea really resonates for me when I see men behaving like eight-year-old boys. They just never got back to the place where they stop seeing women as things and return to seeing them as people. Developmental psych can be powerful stuff -- especially when you look at its failings.
Another part of why I'm loving the Discworld books is how centrally he places the theme of (paraphrasing) "The fundamental sin is treating people as things. All the other sins stem from that." Plus, it's so brilliant when a male writer makes the effort to GET women characters. It's proof that they CAN when they try to, just too damned few male authors bother.
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You get to call him on his faults. It's calling a spade a spade.
*hugs you hard*
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Another part of why I'm loving the Discworld books is how centrally he places the theme of (paraphrasing) "The fundamental sin is treating people as things. All the other sins stem from that." Plus, it's so brilliant when a male writer makes the effort to GET women characters. It's proof that they CAN when they try to, just too damned few male authors bother.
*snugs more*
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The twins are back from Hondurous.
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