Forrest
2008-02-21 07:18:50
My aging mother has spent a lifetime attacking men in front of me and my brother. She sat at our dinner table last week and launched into a tirade about a pregnant fourteen year old girl, and how unfair it was that the fourteen year old father was just able to walk away “scott free.” In her world, the girl was a hero, the boy a villain.
“So, you’re angry at a child for acting like a child?” I said. “Do you want him to quit school and get a job? Mybe be thrown in jail as a deadbeat dad?”
The whole thing was so contrived and apropos of nothing.
I grew up with this abuse from the time I can remember..
