Yeah, I was oddly relieved and stress free with the confirmation. You get constantly told you're just imagining things/being alarmist enough, you start wondering. It's a relief to be able to point to at least one source of concrete facts.

And I've gotten ALL these excuses and then some (don't forget the 'well, we just didn't get to see the girls talking about THEM that way' one I also got). Including the blaming John. Which. Huh. Just No. Somehow, I can't see John doing that. I tend to cite the way the boys addressed him as an indication that he's probably not going to take that kind of disrespectful language about anyone. Considering he seemed to venerate Mary (plus Ellen and Missouri both would've whapped him one). It's just highly unlikely.

Also completely beside the point, but I just can't resist picking up for John. Perhaps next he'll get blamed for the fall of the Roman Empire and reality television?