My note to him: "I have adopted the word demagogue in your honor on Wordnik. You are the perfect embodiment of the word and I could think of no better way to honor you. A Proud American, R. Boston"

This is a thing of beauty.

The person I want to say it to told me, "Yes. I can see you are full of love," in response to me explaining that I was calling out her internalized misogyny

What an ass.

I should try getting out of the house more often (said the introvert coming out of a year of depression that primarily manifested as a desire to curl up inside and avoid humanity as much as possible).

You are Not Alone. I'm going to an early T'day dinner this evening at a friend's house and I Don't Wanna. Friend is becoming somewhat annoying, drinking too much, and other attendees are strangers to me, so I'm hoping to be able to cut out early. Or, you know, maybe it'll be fun. But I expect we'll just talk politics and rant all night.

I'm going to an early T'day dinner this evening at a friend's house and I Don't Wanna. Friend is becoming somewhat annoying, drinking too much, and other attendees are strangers to me, so I'm hoping to be able to cut out early.

That sounds Not Fun in ways that go beyond introversion! Fingers crossed it's more fun than expected.

Oh, good, so I'm not just being a crazy hermit for not wanting to do this!

Ugh, gotta go dye my hair so I look presentable.

I'm flying to Michigan this afternoon. Not sure how this is going to work out. I may donate to the NAACP for every racist thing people say in my presence, after I give them hell for it.

Friend is becoming somewhat annoying, drinking too much, and other attendees are strangers to me, so I'm hoping to be able to cut out early.

Man, sometimes I cancel plans with people I really like just because I can't manage it. This situation sounds like a recipe for awful.

So my sister & BIL's party went off pretty well, although I may have ordered way too much food. OTOH the food didn't go to waste: we sent a lot home with my niece's friends who did a lot of the work, and I got a nice pile of goat cheese and about a pound of leftover salumi. NOM.

Got in a dog walk, and now it's raining while I sit here and do some online banking. What did we do before we were able to apply for lines of credit while sitting on the couch?

Today would be a good day to make bread, but I don't really have anywhere to put it. Maybe I'll make pastry for Thanksgiving pie.

I'm starting to get concerned about some of the messages ltc is getting from her grandparents now that her language skills are improving. Not sure what I should do about it.

Just keep talking to her, I think.

Are they using specific words you don't like, sj, or is it more a message/tone issue? I feel like specific words are a lot easier to ask someone to not use (be they curse words or derogatory language). But tone and message are of course much harder.

Meara, both. I guess I really don't want to get into it with them. So is it okay just to reinforce in private that that is not what Mommy feels or language I find appropriate? I'm particular sensitive to gender normative and other such language at this moment in time and I'm worried eshe is going to start internalizing messages that I don't want her to internalize.

Not a parent, but I would say so. You'll be her primary influence for a few years yet.