Thank you, I wholly agree that parents should not be defended when they genuinely suck and are abusive. The type of people you describe who say "they're your parents dude" are the type of commenters I was afraid of getting. There's a double standard here: if you saw somebody on the street who was doing something dumb, like wearing a mask, you might call them out on it, or at least think "wow that person is dumb." However, if I write about my parents doing dumb things, some people will say that my parents should be forgiven.. for no other reason than the fact that they're parents. Double standard. All those vaxxtards that people here hate on.. many of those vaxxtards are parents, who force their kids to get vaccinated.

As for your mother.. I bet the situation you described isn't all that uncommon, where the parent leans on the fact that people in society tend to blindly defend the parent, no matter the abuse that's secretly occurring. I've done a lot of research on abusive parents over the past couple years and have tried seeking support for it online. If it's any reassurance, I want you to know that there are a lot of people out there who see through the tricks that abusive parents have up their sleeves, like your mother seems to have - a lot of people out there who don't blindly defend the parents and realize that covert abuse might be happening within the household.

I've been on reddit to help me through this parental trauma, but I posted here on .win for this particular issue because reddit is of course a leftist propaganda platform. And to anyone who reads this and thinks I'm an undercover redditor trying to break up peoples' relationships with their parents - no, I think that's an absolutely evil thing to do - it's just that shitty parents do really exist, and in great abundance.