Of course, the gateway to horse ownership stems from a predictable source: Elly defining "getting along well with children" to mean "banishing them from her eyes, ears and thoughts lest fear of what they might do paralyze her mind":
Patterson talking to a toddler: "How would you like to own my rabbit?"
Actual human talking to a toddler: "I'm going to give you my rabbit."
The Pattersons are actually pretty typical pet owners in my opinion- people who acquire animals accidentally (by not being responsible and getting their pets fixed) or impulsively (because they are "cute") and without clue one about how to actually take care of them, or any interest in doing so.
Now, the thing is that not only is Mr B an excuse for a boring psycho to bellow that no one really loves or appreciates her because all they see is this thing without feelings made to be exploited:
fridge-ready glurge is right. The only thing less miraculous than birth is death. It would be miraculous if living creatures just randomly popped into existence, and even moreso if they were perpetually living with infinite lifespans. Elly just likes to keep her kids ignorant. Tomorrow she'll be telling us how gawd paints the leaves.
None of these kids can discover their passion in college, because that would mean they were inspired by someone other than their parents. Never mind that we don't see any of these parents ever, EVER sharing their interests (assuming they even have any) with their kids. Michael wants to be a writer because he can read his mother's thought-bubbles that she mourns her decision to drop out of school Because She Would Have Been the Bestest Writer Ever if not for Fate. Liz becomes a teacher but it's not because of her inspiring teachers, it's because Lynn's head is firmly jammed up the a$$ of the 1950s and sees teaching as a perfectly acceptable Placeholder Job for an umarried woman until she can move on to her true profession of Mother and Wife and Housekeeper. April loves animals because her parents begrudgingly lovingly indulged her with animals when she was a kid, not because she learned about animals on her own or at school. Everything that needed to happen to these kids, whether it be choosing careers or life partners, was done
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Because the alternative is admitting that John and Elly don't deserve the deference they demand. John is an emotionally absent child who refuses to interact with his kids unless he can amuse himself and Elly resents the life she craved. What adds insult to injury is that Elly is pretty much a Mobile Imbecile Designed For Discouragement. When she's not being a smug git about her flip book,
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"I'll be darned if I know why"? did John just turn into Jimmy Stewart??
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Unlike Elly, John prefers not to curse around his children. Elly is all *&^%*&^ around the kids.
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Of course, the gateway to horse ownership stems from a predictable source: Elly defining "getting along well with children" to mean "banishing them from her eyes, ears and thoughts lest fear of what they might do paralyze her mind":
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Patterson talking to a toddler: "How would you like to own my rabbit?"
Actual human talking to a toddler: "I'm going to give you my rabbit."
The Pattersons are actually pretty typical pet owners in my opinion- people who acquire animals accidentally (by not being responsible and getting their pets fixed) or impulsively (because they are "cute") and without clue one about how to actually take care of them, or any interest in doing so.
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And yet, when things go sour like they always do, they look for someone to blame for their woes.
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Person 1: "You try raising three kids and having a dog and a cat to take care of."
Me: "No."
Person 1's head explodes.
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Now, the thing is that not only is Mr B an excuse for a boring psycho to bellow that no one really loves or appreciates her because all they see is this thing without feelings made to be exploited:
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fridge-ready glurge is right. The only thing less miraculous than birth is death. It would be miraculous if living creatures just randomly popped into existence, and even moreso if they were perpetually living with infinite lifespans. Elly just likes to keep her kids ignorant. Tomorrow she'll be telling us how gawd paints the leaves.
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Keeping kids astonishingly ignorant 'preserves their innocence'; it's why chocolate_frapp thinks she's a God-botherer.
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it's more complicated than that.
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None of these kids can discover their passion in college, because that would mean they were inspired by someone other than their parents. Never mind that we don't see any of these parents ever, EVER sharing their interests (assuming they even have any) with their kids. Michael wants to be a writer because he can read his mother's thought-bubbles that she mourns her decision to drop out of school Because She Would Have Been the Bestest Writer Ever if not for Fate. Liz becomes a teacher but it's not because of her inspiring teachers, it's because Lynn's head is firmly jammed up the a$$ of the 1950s and sees teaching as a perfectly acceptable Placeholder Job for an umarried woman until she can move on to her true profession of Mother and Wife and Housekeeper. April loves animals because her parents begrudgingly lovingly indulged her with animals when she was a kid, not because she learned about animals on her own or at school. Everything that needed to happen to these kids, whether it be choosing careers or life partners, was done ( ... )
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Because the alternative is admitting that John and Elly don't deserve the deference they demand. John is an emotionally absent child who refuses to interact with his kids unless he can amuse himself and Elly resents the life she craved. What adds insult to injury is that Elly is pretty much a Mobile Imbecile Designed For Discouragement. When she's not being a smug git about her flip book,
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that one panel is one of the more extreme cases of weird arm shit. Michael looks like a busted marionette.
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We should alert thee proper authorities, then:
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