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Most Americans Just Want Half a Chance
Here’s the stats to prove it.
He just wouldn’t shut up.
The other day, I was out walking with my 3-year-old when an older white gentlemen saw me and felt compelled to give me parenting advice. Without a mask, he crossed the threshold of his manicured lawn and started asking me all kinds of questions. (It was actually the second or third time in a month.) Is she playing sports yet? Can she swim? Am I reading to her? What am I feeding her? Am I saving up for college yet? What’s she doing home in the middle of the day? What am I doing home in the middle of the day? Us girls aren’t afraid of a little thunder and lightning, are we?
I picked up my kid and started carrying her, so we could get away from him. That’s when he started criticizing me. It wasn’t good for me to carry my toddler everywhere, he said. She needed to learn how to walk on her own, at the pace and gait of an adult.
Finally, he gave up.
A certain slice of the American population feels entitled to give the rest of us advice that’s completely detached from reality.
They want to believe we’re dumb, lazy, and entitled. If we’re not, then they’ll invent a fiction in their heads to justify their assumptions, and it emboldens them to treat us with callous indifference. They…
