Long story, but I was reading an email from Ann Coulter the other day. In it, she
was mourning the death of her mom, whom she referred to as "Mother."
She also brought up her dad, or as she put it, "Father." Of course I
thought, "Sure, that sounds about right." This hate-mongering, sexist
xenophobe with obvious attachment issues had to have been raised in an
emotionally cold home, one in which the parents were referred to in the
distancing and overly formal monikers: Mother and Father.
Ahhh,
but my colleagues here corrected me. More than one of us at
Strollerderby calls the parentals "Mother" or "Father." The Mother and
Daddy combo, it was determined, is decidedly Southern.
So now I'm wondering what other people call their mom and dad.
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