Posted by Racer on May 12, 2006, at 18:55:09
In reply to Re: I can't stand this!, posted by Emily Elizabeth on May 12, 2006, at 0:10:40
My husband is not going to like you now -- because, after what you wrote, from now on, I will say "We have OUR period!" LoL
Honestly -- I am laughing, alone in the room, and probably looking very silly.
You're right, it is a place where "we" probably isn't as appropriate as "I." Probably part of my psychopathology, though: *I* don't matter, but *we* do. I have had horrible experiences, and complained about them only because "what if they do it to someone else?"
For that matter, when I started classes again, I was told TWICE that I shouldn't take any maths -- "there are nice English classes, or History, and we're sure you'd like those more." I'm forty-{mumble} years old, fer cryin' out loud! If I want to take ELEMENTARY ALGEBRA -- which I have taken before, passed, gotten an A, gone on from there to take Statistics -- I think it's OK to let me try. The head of the math department told me he had no confidence I could do it, and wanted me to take ARITHMATIC! And you wanna know what I told the female advisor I complained about it to? "Now, you know, it's one thing if they do this to me, but what if they do the same thing to a 17 year old girl?" Doh!
And no, it didn't sound snotty. Thanks for taking the time to write it.
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