You've given enough thanks.

Top of the food chain, ma!

 

HA! The daughter's boyfriend says that in private to me all the time. Exactly word for word, as he calls me Ma. Only in private, though. We respect her choice, just like she does ours.

The reality truly is that the shit I have heard people say to her over the last 13 years is truly despicable. Not just what they say but the actions. The majority of the vegetarians in this world really do just go on about their business quietly and let others do the same.

 

When we were in high school, my buddy went to pick his date up for the prom (her prom, I think). They had a limo, and he had already been drinking.

The mom of his date is a family friend, very serious, and was concerned about drinking.

My buddy tells her, "everyone has their vices. Even people with no vice, that's their vice."

Just thinking about it now makes me laugh. But, it's a pretty good, and true, line.

 

I'd never thought of it, but I guess people can be asses to anybody whose eating habits are outside the norm.

And I'm going to take notes on the non-confrontational way that discussion was handled. I'm sure I'll forget to read them and do what I always do instead, but I thought it was well done.

 

my daughter, 14, has been a vegetarian for a year now. she doesn't say shit about it ... just lives her life. yet it's amazing to me some of the shit people - my family - will say to her because she won't sit down and eat a fucking steak. it's ridiculous.
i've gotten to the point to where i'm just rude as hell in defending her. at her age, it's her age what she eats or doesn't eat. i can see how vegetarians get attitudes.

 

Thank you! My daughter turned vegetarian at the age of 10. People really and truly expected me to shove and force meat down her throat. We took her to the doctor regularly to have her levels of stuff checked out (whatever it is that meat does for us) and she learned early through the doctors how to supplement her diet and keep healthy.

I say, if they are healthy, let them have at it.

 

Jeez. People and their fucking value judgments.

Can you get someone fired for not eating a steak? [/crossthread]

 

I have a vegetarian friend who had to go on a statin, because her cholesterol level went sky high from all the cheese she eats.

 

I'm sure that is how I would respond, too. I know. Such a shock that I would respond rudely to something.

That's why I was impressed. I knew from reading elsewhere that her daughter was a vegetarian, but she responded much more reasonably than I did to the comments about vegetarians.

 

^^^ Proving my point.

 

So people can't joke?