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From the archives, still limping over here (a year and a half later, I know, I know, but I’m almost done!)…
The grody husband and his mom who wanted the author to get rid of her girl fetus.
Gil, the sister’s fiance who’s using an alias.
“My roommate won’t use enough cabinet space!”
“My boss expects me to do my job!”
I sound like Joe’s sister — “the bitchy one” — and my advice sucks.
I’ve (re-)discovered a few things over the course of the recent Days Of Rage. Some of them are great!
I found it while researching a murder (…this is a sentence I have more frequent use for than most), the true story of a neighborhood legend from my childhood. I grew up in a leafy, …
You can use the Wayback Machine to view the Chicks With Antlers site from a few years ago:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.chickswithantlers.com/
The site runner spoke specifically of sexual abuse/rape survivors, but also defined the term more generally (from the Intro page, at http://web.archive.org/web/20010228105446/http://www.chickswithantlers.com/intro.html ):
“But what’s a “Chick With Antlers”? Well, it’s a term a friend of mine uses to describe a woman who has some kind of emotional history that is bound to affect their relationship, should they have one. I think it is hilarious, and I don’t take it as an insult.”
Yeah, I’ve got to say, the chain mail answer is hard to beat for pure aggravation. I think “Ren-faire douchebag” is at least as necessary as “HM/WB.”
https://tomatonation.com/?p=910
Well, I commented that I thought the letter from the woman whose husband walked out of the ultrasound because it was a girl was fake. Guess I’m eating my words. I was at a party this afternoon, and was told that exact story by a woman. Amazingly, she seemed to be laughing about the memory and just reminded him that it was his fault. And she seemed to think that SHE had been the tactless one, because she a made a smart remark when he was upset. Even more amazingly, they are still married and she’s now pregnant with their third attempt at a boy.
Y’know, I long to be parent, and as a gay man, my chances are limited, at least not without going through a load of shit and nearly bankrupting myself. But that asshole walks away when he gets the news that he’s going to have a healthy baby girl, AND then gets to try again. Makes me want to punch something.
To further support CTs story, I was talking to a woman not two days ago whose daughter is pregnant with a girl. When the fiance found out, he sat in a corner and cried, and his whole family went through a “grieving” process because they felt a boy should be born first. However, no abortions were suggested.
In terms of the whole “tradition” of boys being born first…it may just be that that’s the way it’s turned out. I mean, you got a 50/50 shot of a boy being born first, more if the men in this family happen to have more boy making spermies than girl making ones. So it may just be a coincidence that this douchebag family has decided was their fate.