The following is more comprehensible if you know he uses 'hippie' interchangeably with 'liberal'.

[sethrak]

So last night Tom and I were watching Tim Allen's new sitcom, about a stereotypical manly man who works for a sporting goods company and has a wife with a career and three teenage daughters, one of whom got pregnant on senior prom night and now has a ridiculously cute little boy. The episode partly involved Tim running afoul of the daycare/preschool his grandson attends because he's fairly conservative and old-school and they're a progressive bordering on stereotypical hippie establishment. I highly disapproved of both Tim's character's behavior and of the school's primary teacher, and told Tom that as much as I like diversity and liberalism, I probably wouldn't have chosen this place for our boys.

His response was "Of course not, honey, you're not a hippie".

Me: "No, but I am a liberal."

Him: "Nah, you're not a hippie. For one thing you bathe regularly...."

Me: "Um, yeah, and so do most liberals."

Him, continuing: "No, no no, you smell nice, and stay clean, so you aren't a hippie, and besides, you can't possibly be a hippie, because you don't want to see a woman in the White House."

Me: ".......WHAT?!"

According to him, because I don't want to vote for any of the Republican female candidates out there, (or non-candidates like Sarah Palin) I clearly don't want women in the White House, and therefore am not a hippie or a liberal. I just think I am.

Silly me, choosing my vote based on political issues and ideology rather than the gender of the candidate. Clearly I should choose to vote for a woman even if her policies are completely antithetical to my own, would be appallingly anti-women's-rights, and are things that would immediately rule out a male candidate.

I know that sooner or later female candidates with whom I vehemently disagree will eventually make their way into the Oval Office, just as male candidates with whom I vehemently disagree already have. But I will be damned if I join the people who vote them in. And I will not listen to bullshit which states that feminism means women in office regardless of policy stances, because clearly feminism is all about man-hating and tokenism. Fuck. That. Noise.

For an educated and intelligent man, he can certainly act like an ignorant doofus sometimes.

But he's also capable of being a damn good daddy and husband, so I'll stop being annoyed with him eventually. He got his boss to let him out of the office a couple hours early yesterday so he could accompany me and the boys to the pediatric GI doctor. He's still being a great help with cleanup after their ongoing illnesses and general Zodling tending.

He just really frustrates me sometimes.

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[pinesandmaples]

I...uhhh...probably would have decked my partner at that point. You are clearly a better person than I.

[sethrak]

Fortunately, even if I were physically capable of decking him, I'm adverse to violence in most situations, and to partner violence in all cases but self-preservation.

I acknowledge he's enough to tempt a saint's patience, though.