I chose 'other' before reading the explanation, and was going to suggest A, coin toss, B, coin toss (everyone gets their preferred choice once a month, plus a 50/50 chance of their preferred choice two other times a month, no one is assured their least favourite option more than once a month.)
Then I read the explanation, and I'm now going with WTF. I don't know how much you hate oatmeal, but if it's as much as I hate cheese, well, if my family had insisted we all eat a cheese breakfast three Sundays a month, then I would have skipped breakfast three Sundays a month.
And something about 'the point was sharing a single meal' as a symbol of family togetherness, at the expense of the person who dislikes that food, really rubs me the wrong way. Instead of saying "because we're a family, we share a meal," it becomes "because we're a family, we make Ysobel eat something she doesn't like so as not to inconvenience people".
I just don't get why letting you have a tub of yoghurt and a banana or something would have spoiled their family tradition, if the point of it was to celebrate the family they had, not some hypothetical focus group family.
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Date: 2014-02-19 10:23 am (UTC)Then I read the explanation, and I'm now going with WTF. I don't know how much you hate oatmeal, but if it's as much as I hate cheese, well, if my family had insisted we all eat a cheese breakfast three Sundays a month, then I would have skipped breakfast three Sundays a month.
And something about 'the point was sharing a single meal' as a symbol of family togetherness, at the expense of the person who dislikes that food, really rubs me the wrong way. Instead of saying "because we're a family, we share a meal," it becomes "because we're a family, we make Ysobel eat something she doesn't like so as not to inconvenience people".
I just don't get why letting you have a tub of yoghurt and a banana or something would have spoiled their family tradition, if the point of it was to celebrate the family they had, not some hypothetical focus group family.