#17 Hating their parents
January 22, 2008 by clander
This topic ties into a number of other posts, but there is no denying that white people hate their parents. What is amazing, is that as a white parent, there is nothing you can do to prevent this.
If you are a strict parent who makes your kid have a curfew, do homework, and not smoke weed - then you are almost guaranteed to have them scream at you, write poems about how much they hate you, relate to songs by bands from Orange County and Florida.
Eventually, they forgive you and thank you for the tough upbringing, but still resent you because their high school experience wasn’t a carbon copy of the OC or My So Called Life.
On the other hand, if you are a super laid back parent who lets your kid go to parties, drink in the house, and you smoke weed together, you are only delaying the hatred. Because these kids eventually end up doing something stupid with their life - dropping out of university, trying to become a painter, or spending time in a Thai prison. At which point, they hate YOU for being too lax and not caring enough.
But take note that this hatred can be used for gain. White people love to talk about how much they hate their parents, so if you are in a situation where you need to gain a white person’s trust, ask them about their parents. But under no circumstances should you try to one up them, regardless of whether or not you were an orphan, abused, or watched your parents get shot. If you bring this up, the white person will never talk to you about their problems again, and you will be unable to gain their trust.
This is amazing. And so true. And will immediately be forwarded to every white person I know.
I pooped my pants
OHHHHHHHHHHH NOEESSSS!!!!!!!
I hate people who hate their parents. You wouldn’t exist without them, just like you wouldn’t exist without Me.
http://stuffgodhates.wordpress.com/
I’m at a lose for words. Do you have any special thoughts on San Francisco? I feel like I have tapped into the Matrix.
Keep up the good work my brother.
white people like to correct spelling mistakes… it’s loss, not lose
But of course, that was the plan. To parent a white child you have to instill the rule that that they WILL leave home at 18 and never return home other than at major holidays or when they had successfully produced more white children. Once the white kids have gone the white parents have the opportunity to “find themselves” or a younger wife (for white fathers) or arts and bitterness (for white mothers). To achieve this you have to make sure they completely hate you at 18 and can’t wait to leave home but… the plan doesn’t seem to work. How do you explain Boomerang white kids who come back and mess up white parents plans. Remember this works both ways… white parents don’t want their children to mess up their plans
Do you know my parents? I swear I think they schemed just to make sure I didn’t want to stay beyond my 18th birthday. Then, when they kicked me out, they called it “TOUGH LOVE”. As if!
I am only recently realizing that people don’t have to leave home at 18 and become so independent that they essentially turn their back on their parents. Only since settling down in a small town do I see that plenty of families have been here for three and four generations. There are extended families in rural America where kids move away, returning only at holidays! In my family, people moved away as far back as I can count: me from my parents in Seattle, my parents from theirs in California, my grandparents from theirs in Arkansas, and my great-grandparents from theirs in North Carolina. Before that, my knowledge stops, but at some point, someone left England and someone else left Holland and someone else left Belgium and here I stand today, on the shores of the Pacific with rain falling on me.
Also, in my family, the generations are very long - this is the great white middle class lie of waiting to reproduce until you are thirty or older.
Seeing families who are all in one place, and who are grandparents by the time they are 35 or 36, rather than first time parents, is really a wonder to me. These children in these families have great-great grandparents who are alive at the same time as they are! The eighth graders where I teach write their grandparent parent reports about people who were born in 1966! And here I am with a toddler and I was born just in 1969! About the grandfather born in 1966, he is white, grew up in the area, married right out of high school, and he is laughing at all of us who have toddlers at the age of 38.
your description about your family history up to where you are now is quite moving, i know what you mean about the severing of ties in white urban families, i am trying to be different by creating a different home atmosphere and telling the kids they can live with us as long as they want, and hopefully they might want to, we’ll see
Best of luck with your young family
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Damn, yall got parents?!
I just got one!?! Poppa was a ROLLING STONE!
For real!!!
White people like divorce! (It lets them hire lawyers.)
White people like putting their kids on pills to make them less hyper.
White people like therapy and psychoanalysis.
Uh, Bullshit. I love my parents. Always have. Thanks for generalising, though.
Anyway, amusing blog.
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“Uh, Bullshit. I love my parents. Always have. Thanks for generalising, though.
Anyway, amusing blog.”
Right there with you, never had a problem with my parents.
So white I glow in the dark, but I love my parents and loved my grandparents. But a surprising number of these entries are uncomfortably spot on. Unearned White Privilege #287: the ability to believe, without ever consciously thinking about it, that you can’t be stereotyped.
So white I glow in the dark, but I love my parents and loved my grandparents. But a surprising number of these entries are uncomfortably spot on. Unearned White Privilege #287: the ability to believe, without ever consciously thinking about it, that you can’t be stereotyped.
I love my parents, but hate my mother. Sometimes I wish I was an Italian or Black man with an automatic sense of reverence for my dear mama, but as a white woman it was written in the stars that I would forever hate her.
My dad, however, pays for my car insurance and gives me treats and money every time I see him, so I will always be daddy’s little girl. I think it’s worth making the distinction between white guys and white chicks on this one. But as a general rule, you’re totally right that white people hate their parents.
…because I LOVE your mother.
I love my parents, but, then again, I was raised by wolves in Siberia.
“’Uh, Bullshit. I love my parents. Always have. Thanks for generalising, though.
Anyway, amusing blog.’
Right there with you, never had a problem with my parents.”
You guys must not have dropped out of college, tried to become a painter or spent time in a Thai prison yet.
This post, like many others, is more about “rich white people” than white people altogether. I hate my dad, and love my mom, and it has nothing to do with the petulant rich kid bullshit.
Of course, then again, I listen to NPR, watch indie films and am in love with everything Apple comes out with. So, yeah – Harden’s a honkey.
i ought to forward this to my damn sister.
And you won’t because she’s in a Thai prison?
I was just coming to the conclusion, at 36, that hating my parents was becoming boring and trite. And now I can see that it is also just sooooooo white. Thanks for getting my pale white ass out of this twenty year slump!
Funny blog! Thanks!
“My dad, however, pays for my car insurance and gives me treats and money every time I see him, so I will always be daddy’s little girl.”
white people favor the parent that spoils them with material goods, because they feel it makes up for their neglect during their childhood years.
Actually, most white people who hate their parents never had any truly bad experiences with them. The ones that do usually claim to forgive them because they accepted Christ, only to go back on crystal meth a month later. But then again, white people love irony.
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aren’t i funny and clever!!!
don’t you dare call me a racist!!!
Lighten up, there’s nothing inherently racist here, just some funny observations! Obviously, these observations are not true of all white people, but you have to admit that a lot of them ring true. We should all be able to laugh at ourselves sometimes.
whoever wrote this is a fool.
I’m white and I love my parents. Will you accept me as a friend now?
Thank you for reminding me how much I loved my mother before she passed away two years ago.
-White person who does not hate her remaining parent, thank you very much.
I hate my mother for tearing apart the family and half-way ruining my life. I’m fine with my father, though.
I love my parents without reservation but I am fully aware of how unusual that is. I had a disgustingly well-adjusted family life, really.
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Actually, most white people who hate their parents never had any truly bad experiences with them. The ones that do usually claim to forgive them because they accepted Christ, only to go back on crystal meth a month later. But then again, white people love irony.
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Tough talking nonsense straight from an experienced liar. I’m pretty sure what you mean by that is “did their parents try to kill them” because that would be, you know, bad. Anything short of that is just one of lifes little things.
I remember the words of one Indian woman in a college paper:
“I listen to my friends with amazement as they talk about the “terrible twos” as if they expected emotional independence from a helpless baby.”
That pretty much sums it up.
Milestones for White Child:
Age 0.5:
Achieves emotional independence.
Age 5(boys, especially in the South):
Has mastered the ways of war, and can beat three or four older boys in single combat. Either that or he learns to be beat on, or to join groups for “mutual protection”.
“Only Wusses Run To Parents”-Kid in Supernatural, a TV show
Age 5
Learns Disipline, to avoid forced drugging, and has an iron clad sense of self-worth(boys and girls)
This will allow him/her to survive “School” where crazed women can take out whatever emotional problems they have on helpless children with no intervention from the parents. Except of course the parents Coming Down Hard on the problem, the child.
Age 12-14:
In many cases, learns how to lie continuously, because parents have adopted an American Justice way of upbringing. You know, where first time marijuana offenders go to jail. This is because biting your child like a rabid animal is fun. After all, the child can’t fight back, right?
One girl I went to high school with paid a speeding ticket herself, because she didn’t want to deal with the “discipline”, read insane, ridiciliously harsh punishment, of her insane parents. Later, her wonderful upbringing caused her to completely crack up.
Age 16:
Learns to Pay His Own Way. He is now a Man, without Inheritance or Support from his family. Pretty much a uniquely modern American invention, pretty much not present anywhere else.
Yeah, I can see how the strategy of Elegant Minimalism, except where rabid biting is concerned, might cause hatred.
Kicking and starving a dog will also have much the same effect.
Are you implying that no non-white people hate their parents?
I am one the fortunate ones who always felt love and not hate for my parents, but I know what you are speaking of. I’ve seen it so much from talking to others as they give me the shpeal on how crap their parents were.
Love the blog!!
“I hate my mother…My dad, however, pays for my car insurance and gives me treats and money every time I see him, so I will always be daddy’s little girl.”
You should immediately consider a career in prostitution. You seem to have the mindset down to a tee.
LOL!!!
Southern white people LOVE their parents. LOVE LOVE LOVE.
It appears that white people like to deny their inherit whiteness. I’m like, 3/4 white, and I know I definitely went through a stage in my life when I absolutely loathed my mother. Of course, then I went to art school, survived off of carrots and black coffee for two months and learned how cruel and cold the world could be.
picture is perfect
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It appears that white people like to deny their inherit whiteness. I’m like, 3/4 white, and I know I definitely went through a stage in my life when I absolutely loathed my mother. Of course, then I went to art school, survived off of carrots and black coffee for two months and learned how cruel and cold the world could be.
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Life can be especially hard when your mother cares more about the Sisterhood than her own child and doesn’t bother to teach you even the basics of cooking. Naturally, you didn’t bother to learn, because mommy has throughly programmed you to be dependent on women for cooking.
Even an idiot can cook relatively good meals for himself, teaching himself. Of course, the failure of your mother to teach you basic life skills is one of “lifes little things”.
A Real Man can Reinvent EVERYTHING from the ground up. And he WANTS TO. Being Immortal, if he takes ten years to learn everything he should have been taught by his parents, then he still has hundreds of years of normal life to look forward to. Or maybe not.
If you were really going in for the kill, you would have expanded this to explain how “White Girls who hate their Parents” = “Great Opportunity for Black Guys to Get Laid”.
But, that might have been off-putting and uncomfortable for the white readers that seem to be your bread and butter.
Ignore the haters. I think this is funny.
Damn after reading a bunch of these I must not be white even though my skin is as pastey as can be because I love my parents and think they are awesome and never hated them, not even in high school.
[...] #17 Hating their parents: “This topic ties into a number of other posts, but there is no denying that white people hate their parents. What is amazing, is that as a white parent, there is nothing you can do to prevent this.” [...]
I’m white and I love my parents and my parents love their parents.
I bet you’re sure that IF your daddy wasn’t in jail/ decided to stick around / didn’t get shot in that gang fight he would have been great, huh?
So u want a medal??????
I know this site is supposed to be a joke but this post is overstepping the mark. Without my parents I would be/have nothing.
I have to say you can’t designate this topic as a whites only post.
Teenagers only maybe.
hahahahaha. sooo true! I am one of the spoiled little rich kids that hated my parents for not letting me throw parties every night.
The picture is hilarious!
It’s funnier than whole damn essay accompanying it.
I’ve often found that people who have EVERY GOOD REASON to hate their parents (gay people, kids of alcoholics) actually hate them less than those who don’t. They seem to be more forgiving of their parents’ failures.
White people love having enlarged egos and thinking this blog is attacking them personally. This stuff is comedy, c’mon! But yes, I am white and I only resent my father.
I’m yet to read one of these blogs that are about white peoples love of therapists yet (though I’m sure I just haven’t gotten to it yet) but am I the only one who finds that anyone who has been to a therapist’s capacity to blame everything on their parents is magnified by ten fold?
Definite connection there…
This usually is by white kids having rich parents, than the kids become commies, protest, wear che guevara shirts, get arrested at a protest, move and live in squalor in the mountains of Peru and when there’s no more money, call mom and dad to bail you out with Western Union. lol
I HATE my parents!!
This is a topic that I’m frequently marveled about.
It seems to be a legitimate syndrome in which white people blame their parents for their own misery, dysfunctions, failures, etc.
It’s always struck me as quite peculiar.
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I hope that one of these entries will deal with white kids who cuss their parents.
I was 30 years old before I could even cuss while in the _same room_ as my mother, but so many of these white kids actually cuss their parents, to their face, and by name!
Stunning.
LOL good, so i’m not the only one…i got screamed on for saying “what the hell”! maybe i’ll take another chance on that one when i’m 30!
another thing white people like is how black people etc generalize us like this. i have parents who were very strict and yet i still dont hate them. just because were not black and live on wellfare does’t mean we have a hard life.
p.s. one thing white people like is to see black people serve them food and having there mom flip the burgers and there sons hand them to us.
No one can ruin your life. It’s your life, you can do with it whatever you decide or choose.
This whole website has hit the nail on the head. White people! Quit being so defensive! We’ve been found out!
I can’t stand my mom!
Buckethead is white, yet he loves his parents.
I’m Mexican, yet I resent mine heavily but ultimately don’t give a fuck because once they die I’m free, one down one to go.
Oh, except my mom managed to re-marry and have an unexpected child when I was 16 because she was under the impression of being barren, so yeah, they have managed to fuck me over after they’re dead.
Man, I resent them.
But I never cussed or even yelled at them, nor did I tell them that I hated them, that kind of stuff was out of the question more because I had a sense of severity on the issues we had than because of the repercussions of such defiance, something which white kids seem to be completely devoid of.
I live in whats known as “the more affluent area of Tucson, AZ”, and if there’s one thing that gets me raging its this topic.
Here’s an observation of daily life for Oro Valley kids. We’ll use models called ‘Sage’ and ‘Madison’.
Sage or Madison usually wake up in their master suite size bedrooms, walls of course covered with emo bands and way too many pictures of them and their friends making an odd face and throwing up the peace sign like they’re Mary-Kate Olson. Once they get dressed in their pre-torn jeans they argue mom and dad to let them borrow the car to get to their overly funded private schools. Here they lament about being depressed and misunderstood while eating sushi and texting on Blackberries purchased by their medicated parents.
Once home from school they look for rebellious things to do to pass the time. Much like the movie “Thirteen”. More often then not tweens are dropped off at the local mall by dad, but not before suckering the bastard into giving them $200 dollars. Once achieved they roll their eyes and slam the door. Hating your parents is sooo cool.
While in the mall they meet up with their ”torn” friends and talk about underground hip-hop and how they’re going to decorate their apartments once they move out of mom and pops. They then like to find the movie theatre I’m in and open up their cell phones to text with the fucking LCD light glowing away.
Long story short- These little bastards don’t have a damn thing to complain about. Life is sooooo hard what with your parents buying you a car as soon as you turn 16, paying your college tuition, room/board, cell phone bills, and virtually everything short of toilet paper, which the kid buys with the money he/she grudgeingly forks over with money earned from their part-time jobs at Starbucks that they’re at only because “its the right thing to do”. These kids go to Europe as soon as they graduate (or even before, for that matter) and say they came back “a more cultured person”. They also develop drug/drinking addictions until they are forced into rehab. This is usually pre-planned. Rich white kids love a marred past and street cred. They sell their prescription drugs and do nothing with their degree’s which were practically purchased for them until they ABSOLUTELY have to.
Fuck little rich white kids who complain. Send ‘em too the other side off town, the one where I grew up poor, unsafe and had to actually work, and they’d be crawling back to mommy and daddy in no time.
Also, I happen to appreciate my parents and don’t blame them for anything in my life. They did their best and happened to be flawed, but made me who I am today.
P.S.- How did I get to the “more affluent part of Tucson, Arizona”?
And why am I complaining?
A. Not my choice, personally. We moved here for the husbands job.
B. I complain because I’ve had enough of being cut-off and tailed by 16 year olds in BMW’s as I curse them all to hell in my used ‘99 Hyundai Elantra purchased at a shaddy mexican mans “used car yard”.
maybe you could help them by telling them not to by or sell the drugs, what do you think. growing up rich is fun. growing up is good too. http://www.drugrehabreferral.com/
Amanda, please leave the lengthy replys to people who have something witty or interesting to say.
I mean replies… ok nevermind… I can’t seem to contribute something intelligent either.
StuffWhitePeopleLike- Being ‘witty and intelligent’.
My husband is always complaining about how much he doesn’t like his Dad, and every few months they just stop speaking….I didn’t get it before but this post helped! Really!