Thanksgiving

[prodigy]

Let's find some other day and reason to give thanks in the United States.

Comments

[impersona]

My reasons for hating Thanksgiving are predominantly personal - I've had some pretty bad Thanksgivings in my time, in part because I've been a vegetarian since I was 3 and I had family members who took great offense to my choice. So I've come to associate the holiday with a lot of stress (not this year, Kol, Fyre, and I are having a par-tay).

Other than that, it's exactly as you say, if they could take the pilgrims/natives playing nice away as the centerpiece myth, then having a day to spend with your family is awesome.

I am kinda really shocked that your school went with the whitewashed play after teaching you so much about actual Indian history. da fuck.

[prodigy]

Oh God, family vegetarian guilt. Yeah, I don't have a cohesive enough family to have any traditions, but I've had quite a few awkward, cold-silence-filled Thanksgivings with my dad's mostly-estranged family in Portland, whom I don't see more than once every few years. Aside from that, the rest of my family is Korean so Thanksgiving isn't such a big deal, but we observe American holidays now and then. This year we're getting takeout from a restaurant, just the four of us. Not really a clan here.

Holidays are hell of awkward in general for people with families that largely don't get along.