MR,
Nowhere in the article do I claim that my parents had a rule against male guests. They in fact did not. The entire point of the essay was that my discomfort with bringing someone home was entirely a product of my own neurosis, not any parental rule. Thanks for reading.
--CM
08/31 |
Call me old-fashioned, but I don't think that parents have a duty to provide a comfortable environment for the sex lives of their mooching adult children. When I finished undergrad 5 years ago, I moved back in with my parents for 6 months afterwards, where I did indeed pay rent and utilities (although at half the cost of what I would have paid out on my own). It was clear from the outset that I was not permitted to have male guests spend the night. That's fine - as long as I lived in their house, I abided by their rules.
The author's parents were under no obligation to feed and house their daughter after she had presumably already been equipped with the skills necessary to support herself. (If she wasted her time in college, whose fault is that?) Her resentment at the particular nature of their generosity is childish and self-absorbed. I'm upset that Nerve would choose such a bubbleheaded whiner as indicative of my generation.
--MR
10/17 |
Words have been used very politely and in moderate measures to bring most normal but unspoken situations to life ....where one can actually picture situations we are all put though at some point of time in our lives...a must read for fellow browsers on the site
Regards
satish
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--JS
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