Argh.

[apocalypsos]

It wouldn't be my family if a gathering of relatives didn't end in the sort of conversation where, using today's example, my mom's cousin announces that she's never ever EVER experienced anything remotely resembling sexism and her husband equates the BET Awards to the Ku Klux Klan.

It's no wonder so many of these end with me pretending to look at a watch and shouting, "Oh, look at the time! LOOK, I SAID. It's progressive-feminists-have-to-go-home o'clock!"

Comments

[caias.livejournal.com]

You should get SuperBoy to punch your mom's cousin in the uterus so hard that she goes back in time. Say, 1830... she'll know sexism then.

[hiddenw.livejournal.com]

I remember trying to explain the concept of 'white privilege' to this conservative Republican girl who was a friend of my brother-in-law. She wasn't buying it because racism doesn't exist anymore. Post-racial world, baby!

I usually resort to alcohol in such situations, but I was already at a bar and it wasn't helping any.

[lilacsigil.livejournal.com]

Better than "punch-you-in-your-ignorant-face o'clock".

[beanarie.livejournal.com]

Haha that's similar to a chat I had with a friend who seems to think he knows how to "fix" Africa, yet doesn't want to acknowledge Europe's role in breaking it. Oh, people.

[budclare.livejournal.com]

Oh, I like that one.