By taking the time to make your comment, and making us take time away from thinking about grandma... you are indeed taking something away from the grandmothers. A discussion about a marginalized group is always having something taken away from it when people bring in comments about the non-marginalized group.
Yes, absolutely.
(An open letter from Ms. So Pale She's Almost Translucent to my fellow European-Americans: could you all please stop with the "but what about white people?" questions in situations like the one above? It's not like we as a group have been historically underrepresented.)
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Date: 2007-10-30 06:15 pm (UTC)Yes, absolutely.
(An open letter from Ms. So Pale She's Almost Translucent to my fellow European-Americans: could you all please stop with the "but what about white people?" questions in situations like the one above? It's not like we as a group have been historically underrepresented.)