For a lot of people during the holidays, entire turkey and
ham dinners are really just side items to be served with the main course of
family problems that never seem to end. People have also used the word
"family " and "family friendly" to exclude people with
gender problems or single people. The word "family" is a loaded word
for a lot of people, with a lot of implications, which makes it even more
embarrassing for there to be a new trend of organizations unrightfully referring
to members or customers as "family."
Obama did it several times with America, referring to our country as one
big family, and I have recently gotten multiple emails from random retail
stores referring to their customers as family members. The college I went to a long time ago in
South Carolina also tried to call all the alumni family in a survey, and I have
to say that even though I feel a lot of love for a lot of strangers and hope
that everyone can be adopted as God's children, I find it insultingly
presumptuous and inexcusable when anyone, but especially someone just trying to
get my money, assumes that kind of role with me. I actually find it abusive in more than just
a philosophical way, and I know that many people have deep and very mainstream
religious beliefs that require them not to ever refer to people that way so
flippantly. And this might sound stupid,
but what about divorced people who shop at the same store. Who does some jerk marketer think they are to
remarry those people. People think I am
being a persnickety grammar snob or just a snob, but there are some really bad
people doing really bad things in almost every part of society and this world,
and they are not my family. Standing in the same line with someone at the
grocery store does not mean I am so much as their second cousin fifty thousand
times removed, and for both the commies and the capitalists to try to foist
that on me for no other reason but to take everyone's inheritance, including the
safety and security of the country, is reason for me to disown everyone.
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