SassyMummy
08-10-2010, 19:58
Ah MIL... you know when generalise about single mothers/people who don't drive... you're talking about me too, right?
I might not be a single mother anymore... but I was.
I'm not a *****. I don't want to scam the government and keep popping out kids. I didn't trick any man into impregnating me. I am not like the "single mothers" you seem to talk about a lot.
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She does this ALL THE TIME. She'll generalise everyone, and say it TO me as if I'll go, "Yep, yep, of course!" and agree... but does she forget that she's just talking about ME too? Of course if this is mentioned I'll get a, "Oh, not you... the rest of them."
Yeah... because I'm the ONLY good "one" out there. All the "rest of them," are ferals. :rolleyes:
The other day, she was telling me about some woman who locked her keys in the car. MIL told me that if she hadn't been busy, she'd have gone over to the bus stop to ask one of the people waiting for a bus to help... suggesting that all people who take public transport know how to break into cars! WTF?
I don't drive. I'm learning, but god knows how long that will take, and how long before I get a car. I wouldn't have the slightest clue as to how to break into a car. It insulted me to hear her say that.
She also seems to think I share her bigotted views.
Apparently ALL Asian women who marry white men are gold-diggers. Even the woman who married my father. She doesn't know either my father or his wife very well, but his wife seems lovely to me. She doesn't seem like some horrible b*tch out to steal Dad's money (he doesn't have heaps anyway... lol).
And that gay couple expecting several babies (4 or 5, I can't remember). She told me about it then added, "I don't agree with it, of course."
I'm not a bigot. In fact, I'm probably one of the most un-biggotted people she knows, so why say this? And why assume such things about single parents and those who don't drive? I am not the ONLY person who fits these categories, or have at one point, who isn't some horrible scam-artist. How can she not see that I am not the exception?
What makes this worse, is that she had her first baby at 16 - surely, after becomming a mother so young, she knows that sometimes stereotypes are just a load of garbage? SURELY she knows that?
God she irritates me sometimes... but then others, she is lovely.
Luckily I am a white Australian though, or I fear she may not be so nice to me... :hair:
I might not be a single mother anymore... but I was.
I'm not a *****. I don't want to scam the government and keep popping out kids. I didn't trick any man into impregnating me. I am not like the "single mothers" you seem to talk about a lot.
...
She does this ALL THE TIME. She'll generalise everyone, and say it TO me as if I'll go, "Yep, yep, of course!" and agree... but does she forget that she's just talking about ME too? Of course if this is mentioned I'll get a, "Oh, not you... the rest of them."
Yeah... because I'm the ONLY good "one" out there. All the "rest of them," are ferals. :rolleyes:
The other day, she was telling me about some woman who locked her keys in the car. MIL told me that if she hadn't been busy, she'd have gone over to the bus stop to ask one of the people waiting for a bus to help... suggesting that all people who take public transport know how to break into cars! WTF?
I don't drive. I'm learning, but god knows how long that will take, and how long before I get a car. I wouldn't have the slightest clue as to how to break into a car. It insulted me to hear her say that.
She also seems to think I share her bigotted views.
Apparently ALL Asian women who marry white men are gold-diggers. Even the woman who married my father. She doesn't know either my father or his wife very well, but his wife seems lovely to me. She doesn't seem like some horrible b*tch out to steal Dad's money (he doesn't have heaps anyway... lol).
And that gay couple expecting several babies (4 or 5, I can't remember). She told me about it then added, "I don't agree with it, of course."
I'm not a bigot. In fact, I'm probably one of the most un-biggotted people she knows, so why say this? And why assume such things about single parents and those who don't drive? I am not the ONLY person who fits these categories, or have at one point, who isn't some horrible scam-artist. How can she not see that I am not the exception?
What makes this worse, is that she had her first baby at 16 - surely, after becomming a mother so young, she knows that sometimes stereotypes are just a load of garbage? SURELY she knows that?
God she irritates me sometimes... but then others, she is lovely.
Luckily I am a white Australian though, or I fear she may not be so nice to me... :hair: