Okay, mini rant time
So I’m seeing some commercials these days for the “modern family sedan”. The commercials show things like daughters asking their mothers about how their sex life is with her latest boyfriend etc. apparently these things are to be celebrated by our culture. Hurray! Dysfunction! my mother is fornicating and i want to hear about it! That makes us normal! That is such a sad statement on society it isn’t even funny. When did we get to the point where we were all so messed up that we had to be messed up to be normal. Function in families is an oddity, an embarrassment, a sign of being in the past. Its ridiculous. I’m actually shy of my parents being in love after 25 years, of our quiet country existence, the morality deeply entrenched in me and the peaceful family environment in which I was raised (not to say that my parents or my home life are perfect…they’re both far from it). Why am I shy of these things? b/c its just not normal anymore. When my friends talk about their parents fighting or their parent’s splitting up with each other, I can’t empathize. Maybe I don’t want to say anything b/c I don’t want them to feel bad about being ‘dysfunctional’… or maybe dysfunction is to the point that I am ashamed of functionality b/c it is such an oddity. So what’s a girl to do? I shouldn’t strive for dysfunction simply to fit in or hide how stable my home life is just to avoid embarrassment ….i like functional families, I always want one. I don’t want any of this modern family nonsense. And I don’t want any of this modern family sedan nonsense. Its like you’re trying to sell a product b/c it doesn't work. That’s just stupid.
