my mom and all of her friends are all anti-vax conspiracy wackos, it's so fucking tiring
My mom told me a few months ago that it isn’t fair to call landlords leeches because leeches can’t help sucking blood. I got her to vote for Bernie in the last primary. Most of the time she doesn’t want to talk politics, though.
I think it's just that generation. Imagine being married to a boomer man, that would be enough to drive you crazy.
My mom and I went on a collective rant about how liberal folks we know mistake having the right opinions and consuming the right products for political action and how too much lib id pol (versus like a well-thought out intersectionalism) puts a veil between you and anyone who isn’t exactly like you and prevents solidarity across race, culture, and gender lines.
We then veered into wondering how Robin DiAngelo gets through a conversation with any person of color without having her brain explode.
My dad just kinda sat there in silence.
I'm a 41 year old white woman, and while I'm medically diagnosed as some brand of crazy, I promise I'm not an anti-vax conspiracy weirdo...
My mom likes to knit and go on a rant about how climate change activists should act more radically, what's the point if all you're doing is shouting a few slogans every Friday, at least chain yourself to the local factory until your demands are met. She's way less lib than most of my friends my age, I'm v proud.
Just made me think. Is astrology the gateway drug to anti-vax?
My aunt is so fucking cool, she got on some news headlines for what she does too. Dont want to doxx myself tho, so i wont say more.
Although she would never use the label, my (white, middle-aged) mom is a socialist and radicalizes more every day.
A lot of the older women in my family are into alternative medicine of some kind, maybe because doctors don't listen to women. One of my relatives died of untreated cancer because she didn't trust western medicine.
