I expected most of the rest, to be honest

Me: [reading the GoT wiki because I want to see what everyone is freaking out about] "WHAT?!"

PMC: "Hm?"

Me: "[Spoiler] became monarch."

PMC: "WHAT?!"

(I know why)

Why is there a Wikipedia article titled "Misogyny in Rap Music" but not an equivalent for the equally sexist country or pop?

Sigh...

I wish the Bad Adviser was still doing her thing, because I would love to hear her take on the "my kids are mad because I'm sleeping with my stepson" letter in Dear Prudence.

The things I think about late at night

I spit the A word at my parents once while we were in the car. What you did to me was abuse! They laughed me off.

It took years to understand why they did that. On a fundamental level, humans need to believe that they're good people, that they do the right thing. Abuse is so far out of the realm of "good behavior" that admitting that you committed it breaks your psyche.

It takes a lot of courage to admit that you were abusive.

I took the high road and didn't, ultimately

For many years, I had this persistent fantasy - to buy a copy of the DSM, highlight and annotate it to point out which of my family members have what symptoms, and then throw it in my mother's face the next time she insisted that everyone in our family is "normal", that we can't possibly be crazy.

Grumble grumble

Interestingly, I've gotten more shit from vegans for my [gasp] consumption of eggs, honey, and dairy, than from omnivores for not eating meat. And vegans are definitely not the majority in this country!

It's been much more peaceful

Actually, the only omnivore that got on my case for my diet was my grandmother. And in her case, it definitely wasn't anything about vegetarianism - she would have screamed at me just as much if I'd announced that I was eating nothing but rare steaks for the rest of my life. It was about control and making me feel bad.

She straight-up stopped speaking to me about anything except my diet, yelling about how I was going to slowly starve to death. I weighed "be constantly harangued about diet" vs "have father grumble about how I'm a bad grandchild for not talking to her" and decided to cut her off.