go see your family more oftne the rest of the year instead of GC sheeping it at 3x airline fares

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3806355&forum_id=2#34752565)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3806355&forum_id=2#34752699)

-mom

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3806355&forum_id=2#34752734)

I always enjoy the company of friends more for this reason.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3806355&forum_id=2#34752675)

Do people hate their families so much that they need to recreate the holiday with people they can actually tolerate?

In all honesty, this is an almost purely social media driven “holiday.” It’s like running a marathon - no one would attend a Friendsgiving if they couldn’t post about it on Instagram Facebook etc

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3806355&forum_id=2#34752657)

I haven't been home for Thanksgiving in half a decade and have no family in D.C., so doing it with friends is the only way I can celebrate the holiday at all.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3806355&forum_id=2#37221439)

"Friendsgiving" just screams of the prolonged adolescence overeducated libs are in - an event where the number of people with roommates outnumbers the number of people with kids by 10x1.

"Omg should I invite my new BOYFRIEND to friendsgiving hehe"

--Like you're fucking 35 you're too old to have a fucking boyfriend.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3806355&forum_id=2#37221483)

XO: You must have children by 30

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3806355&forum_id=2#37221529)

It's not the preparation of the food that makes it popular, its the co-opting of a family holiday to an event geared towards friends so that 30-somethings can play adult and regale each other with their marathon training schedules and tales from their latest trip to Prague.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3806355&forum_id=2#37221546)

What's the difference between a dinner party and "an event geared towards friends so that 30-somethings can play adult"?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3806355&forum_id=2#37221567)

If you don't know the difference, I can't help you.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3806355&forum_id=2#37221587)

Or are people playing video games, eating Doritos, mixing drinks, and making fun of someone at the dinner for being a dumbass?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3806355&forum_id=2#37221658)

It's not co opting shit if you also attend family Thanksgiving. It's not playing adult either whatever that means. JFC, sorry your friends suck and you would prefer hanging out with Aunt Ginny and Uncle Marv.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3806355&forum_id=2#37222482)

if it was called a dinner party, the very flakiness of our current culture would likely hollow out the event

nevermind the fact that our culture is so isolating and that millennials are increasingly okay with avoidant behaviors that deteriorate relationships - having a context for closeness is really what this is about at its foundation (yes, even for those Instagram bitches who tag their 16 friends in some photo)

poasters ITT are vastly overstating the shallowness of the "friendsgiving" holiday

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3806355&forum_id=2#37224694)

Only xo could dislike getting together with friends you love to enjoy some good food and drink.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3806355&forum_id=2#37222150)

What we hate is the continued destruction of traditional families and customs.

Shitlibs will run thousands of articles in the lead up to Thanksgiving about how awful your “racist” uncle is, why your conservative cousin should be fired, why your parents are assholes, and that football on Thanksgiving is on the wrong side of history. They do this to purposefully erode and destroy a tradition that was/is popular with the white christian american family.

Then enter “Friendsgiving.” You dont need “family” says shitlib culture. Blood and tribe are old, antiquated, racists concepts. Move to the city and forget about your parents, uncles, cousins, and grandparents. Dont go home when you can get drunk with your besties and watch Handmaidens Tale marathons!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3806355&forum_id=2#37223900)

Thanksgiving is a nice holiday to spend with family. Not sure what the issue is with that. It's not like saying Thanksgiving should generally be for families means you don't have friends or don't like spending time with them.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3806355&forum_id=2#37223918)

Further to BlueSmoke's point, it's not like xo is saying people shouldn't hang out with old friends the night before Thanksgiving. That's a pretty common thing to do.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3806355&forum_id=2#37223957)

"But we're defenthing the thamily!" the autist who protests literally everything which is somewhat of a trend lisped.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3806355&forum_id=2#37224160)

the last two I was invited to attend had an excel spreadsheet and a lot of instructions, so that's when I decided the holiday had jumped the shark

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3806355&forum_id=2#37224258)

duh me

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3806355&forum_id=2#37224737)

nothing wrong with friendsgiving but thank god that the people i know aren't the types who would keep a shared google spreadsheet for everything (but i know some who would!)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3806355&forum_id=2#37224738)

reason it's so popular is because rootless millennials live far from their families of birth and none of them can breed on their own so they cobble together "friends" to try and fill the void

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3806355&forum_id=2#37224741)