But hereâs the thing. Award show ratings have been in the crapper for years even before the pandemic. The Oscars ratings immediately skyrocketed in the later half of the show after the clip of Will Smith slapping Chris Rock went viral. Something has to give with award shows ballooning production values. These arenât exactly charity galas.
Twitter is real.
Twitter is people speaking without consequences.
Twitter is people being themselves.
Chapelle is a man with a well-documented history of bigotry and transphobia.
Heâs real too, unfortunately.
Weâve been slipping it into food at the Fox commissary since January 6th.
Keep it quiet.
This is beyond heartbreaking.
Sheâs welcome to stay in my couch. For what thatâs worth.
So many parents who think that raising children is about them.
âWhy wonât it do what I want!?â
Every one of those parents are assholes.
Unfortunately, their parents were probably assholes too, and so on back down the line.
Which is a very sad thing throughout.
I have a goodly number of aunts, and the one on my maternal side is kind of one of these parents⌠one of my cousins stopped talking to her for a few years and the other has been struggling with drug addiction⌠she just seems to think that both are just doing that to hurt her and that she can âfixâ it with âtough loveâ BS. I struggle not to point out that she often put her partners ahead of her kids (she has horrible taste in men⌠the last one died after their divorce of brain cancer, and we were all very pleased with that outcome).
All the other aunts kick ass, though and seem to have great relationships with their various kiddos.
That is so toxic and infuriating.
I feel for those kids. It must be so hard for them. I hope they can get out soon.
Absolutely disgusting.
An aunt on my maternal side is also one of these parents. My cousin gave her own mother the nickname âLuciferâ. I donât know all they issues between them, but the big incident was when my cousin decided to change her major and schools. My aunt wasnât happy about that, so she contacted the new school and unenrolled my cousin prior to the start of the semester.
That is messed up and shouldnât be possible. Colleges should not allow parents to have that kind of access. Unless âLuciferâ pretended to be your cousin.
One of the many reasons I no longer speak to my parents is this kind of self-centered toxicity. My entire life was about them. Bad things or mistakes were attacks on them by me. My struggles with mental illness was just fuel for my motherâs martyr complex. Every thing I achieved was because of them.
I got out before I had a kid. It is a source of sadness but absolutely necessary, even more so now that I have a child to protect
I shudder to think of the hell that wouldâve ensued if I wasnât cisgender and straight.
I was at college at the time and this occurred in Georgia, so I heard the story second hand from other family members, so details are probably off. My aunt and uncle weâre paying tuition, so maybe she cancelled the check or something. In the end my asshole(for other reasons) of an uncle was able to sort everything out and my cousin got to attend but she didnât speak to her mother for years.
Thatâs probably the case. I know in the case of GSU, they make you jump through hoops if you want access to your kidâs records. Mine had to sign off on it (and not like we care, as we trust her, but it made sense to be able to see the financial stuff, as weâre paying).
