chapotraphouse

not an argument but im avoiding calling certain family members. im still mad about what she said about my mom.

Sometimes I wish my family had political beliefs beyond local politicians they like or don't like. Not very often but sometimes.

My parents were a bit confused by my choice of having a lasagna for dinner instead of turkey or ham, but i'm also an entire flight away from them so

Not an argument but my leftist dad has been obnoxious since he came to Taiwan. He's never forgiven them for aiding Guatemala's right-wing dictators. So he keeps making jokes about Taiwan being the rebellious province of China in front of my wife's family. Thankfully she's the only one in her family that can speak fluent Spanish and just chuckles at them.

I have heard people complimenting Biden over vague ideals way too much. Also, someone got a RBG mug.

My nearest family aren’t very chuddy and I’m the one that gets the most heated out of em so they’re cowed it isn’t really an issue at mine. Interesting to see all these examples.

Only one who can be a bit off is nan who has Alzheimer’s but somewhat strange beliefs. She loves the Somali, Kurdish and Iranian immigrants she interacts with but hisses about Finns.

Bill Maher-loving aunt: "Hamas just needs to stop." 🤮

Pretty bad one for pre-christmas get together. Grandma fear mongered about fent, dad and uncle were talking completely about chud politics and how the abortion rights protection referendum would allow abortion up to the date of birth, and sister started ranting about trans people.

We were at a restaurant, so I just announced that the food was making me sick and waited it out in the car.

Not an argument, but good lord Charlie Brown Christmas is incredibly misogynistic

I just sat at home all day because most of my family caught Covid.

Avoided extended family entirely this year. My partner and I hung out at home for the holidays, with Christmas movies on in the background and cookies in the oven. It was wonderful and relaxing without the social obligations and expectations.

Of course we got a little bit of the guilt trip, but we got COVID 2 weeks ago and that put a real damper on everything. Between social anxiety and still feeling like dogshit, we didn’t let the guilt get to us.

Fuck everyone, do what you want!

I won't be having any familial conversations this year, but I imagine it would go like, "of course COVID is 'back', it's an election year "

explaining to my family that the reason i dont wear a wedding ring isnt because im a slut but because im not into consumerist rocks that cost 20k usd. im a fucking communist how do they not comprehend this ive said it a billion times. these same people will complain about shit like hijabs

also, despite them being christian, they were bewildered that i spend so much time helping homeless people. theyre so profit brained that jesus would lynch them for calling themselves christian

None to report this year, but mostly because my brothers and I played videogames all day. Very rare indeed.

No political arguments. Had a good laugh about the westerners foolishly locking their own cargo ships out of the red sea while China and Russia benefit.

I’m lucky to live in a family of turbo libs, but the casual ableism and transphobia is almost impressive at times

The type of people to give you all the affirmations while shedding tears as they lead you into the gas chambers tbh

I actually had an OK-ish chat with my dad about transness...he's a huge contrarian and a pedant which makes talking about many things quite annoying, but thankfully he is not on social media at all so he is not completely pilled in any one direction. Once I introduced the phrase "decoupling sex and gender" he was able to at least grasp that, so.....baby steps. But who knows where we'll be at next year.