[ SECRET POST #3998 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3998 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I don't watch the show, but here's my life:

molested as a child

miscarriage at 19

a couple of chronic illnesses which, while they wouldn't have directly killed me, have made me wish I was dead at certain points in my life

ended up alone after a relationship of several years (and that I was thinking was heading toward marriage) flamed out

took care of my grandmother during the last several years of her life, while her marbles were slipping away, and finally had to tell the doctors to stop trying CPR (after they ignored the fucking DNR in the first place)

And yet, despite all of that, I'm not a dick. Occasionally sarcastic, and I can get impatient and sometimes downright rude when I'm having a bad pain day. But despite everything, I've managed to be a decent human being; I'm not deliberately cruel and even when I fall short of my ideals, at least I have them to fall short of.

I'm so sick of the whole "asshole with a traumatic backstory that somehow makes their assholery okay (and people who call them on their horrible behavior or just walk away rather than putting up with it are treated by the narrative like they're the horrible ones)" trope.

Apparently I have a lot to say about a secret for a TV show I don't even watch.

[(Anonymous)]

One of my favorite gags on Scrubs was when Elliot asked Jordan why she was so awful and she told her that her parents were really mean, and Elliot was using that to excuse her behavior to people until Jordan finally admitted that her parents were great and she’s just an asshole for no reason.

The US in general has a bit of a tragedy fetish. It’s not a new thing, but the shift from “tragedy makes you a better person” to “tragedy makes your assholery okay” is a little troublesome. I mean, neither one of those is correct. At the end of the day, tragedy makes you sad. But at least the first trope invokes the desire to become a better person instead of the desire to be an asshole and get away with it.

[philstar22]

In this case, though, I don't personally think she's obnoxious or an asshole. I'm not really sure what other people are getting at. Sorry you went through all of that, though.