If a boy is mad, he's just having a bad day...
but if a girl is mad she's instantly on her period?



Oh yes. I went there.


So this rant is about parents. Why is it that if you apologize to them they continue to be snarky and rude and like to still make you feel like a bad person and act like Saint *insert parental figure name* who is being a martyr and are being unreasonably persecuted by their wicked children (and this, mind you, is considered completely acceptable behavior on the parent in question's part), but if they apologize and you are still even the tiniest bit frustrated with them (which apparently is considered blatantly socially unacceptable) you're a bad daughter who never forgives and you're a horrible tyrant of a child who never shows any gratitude to them despite the fact that they gave you "THE GIFT OF LIFE YOU UNGRATEFUL CHILD!!!" (despite the fact that A) as adults, they are considered more experienced and should be making fewer mistakes by now, and B) we never even asked for this marvelous "gift" but instead were the consequence of them being irresponsible and not having protected sex, or if protected, insufficiently so)?

Yes, the so-called "gift" of life. Living in this hellhole ratrace dog-eat-dog world where the concern for one's fellow man has dissolved and the only three people that matter to anyone are me, myself, and I. Excuse me for not writing a formal thank you note.

One could say I'm exaggerating.

One could say I'm not.


The point is, parents need to stop being fuckwits. Whether it's picking pointless little fights with your child to take out your anger on someone smaller and weaker who you apparently are too weak to win a legitimate argument with or being angry with your child for getting a B+ in English instead of an A+ and telling her grandmother that she is unteachable and her older sister is so much better and is perfect and wonderful in every way, it has to stop parents!

If you're wondering, I am the teensiest bit upset with my parents. Nothing I can't handle