She seems to be putting a lot of hope into that “we.” Seems like loads of people can tolerate it just fine when it’s not their kids and the bodies aren’t physically strewn about where they have to see them when going about their day.
It would be way more fun changing that first “I” into “we” and using the royal plural. Make it sound so insufferably smug that the folk whose blood pressure spikes when they read anything she says already start having aneurysms.
She seems to be putting a lot of hope into that “we.” Seems like loads of people can tolerate it just fine when it’s not their kids and the bodies aren’t physically strewn about where they have to see them when going about their day.
I think it’s the same aspirational ‘we’ we use to try to get kids to behave. “We don’t hit when we’re angry, we use our words.”
It would be way more fun changing that first “I” into “we” and using the royal plural. Make it sound so insufferably smug that the folk whose blood pressure spikes when they read anything she says already start having aneurysms.
One can tolerate backlash
Really? I’ll take your word for it, I’m a filthy peasant.
the royal “we”