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[quote=Anonymous]Nope - not going to flame.  These people are asses and your husband is TOTALLY wrong for not standing up for you.  It's amazing how stupid stereotypes get imbedded really early.  Epic in-law fail.  Epic DH fail.

For the record, I was always the 'cheerful stupid' child in the opinion of my grandparents on my dad's side.  I knew this by age three (it didn't help that I was left handed like my mom- just to give you a further indication of what these people were like).

I won't bang on about the fact that it now appears I am not as dim-witted as they thought (I am still mostly cheerful FYI) but no one close to me will ever put my kids in a box and try and keep them there.  And if my husband bought into that kind of "me against/more preferred than you" toxic muck I would visit upon him something dire.  You cannot change your in-laws but I hope to hell you can impress on your husband how wrong his buying into this is for your family dynamic.

Sorry if I sound strident (maybe that's the intellectually inadequate bit coming out) but you do need to deal with this.  It's not just a phrase or a moniker, it's a power issue that needs to be addressed.  Strong respected women grow strong respectable boys.  Disrespected women have far greater challenges.  Put your foot down OP.[/quote]

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