Review: I Hated the Mother . . . Wish There Had Been Recognition of the Hate in the Request
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 17, 2014
The mother asks Jesse not to bring his partner of 4 years to the house for Christmas Eve.  She waited until they arrived from Pittsburgh to drop this bomb and doesn't seem to care about the destruction she is wielding.  She seems clueless and homophobic.  While the rest of the story is decent, I wished the author had addressed this more clearly.  Either Sam (the new son), Jesse or his partner should have told her how base and homophobic this was.  I would have liked to have seen them leave.  I felt let down because nothing came of what was the most important part of the story . . . that people think others are homophobic like them AND that homophobic comes in many fashions.Imagine if a mother asked her son not to bring his girlfriend of 4 years to the family Christmas Eve dinner, just in case someone takes offense.  That would be a tear in the relationship b/t mother and son and mother and girlfriend.  Things like that just don't disappear.  You remember that you're not welcome.  You would hesitate to trust that person again.I enjoyed the story.  Light and entertaining.  But the author let me down by not having Jesse or Devin address the harm the mother did.  Shame on her for thinking this would be all right!