[ SECRET POST #2023 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2023 ⌋

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

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Notes:

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 2 - posted twice ].
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Comments

[valenciapilgrim]

I agree with your comments, Checkerblob. The tone of the show is much more *mocking* towards bigotry. But I think that one of the biggest keys to Michael's character is not that he is (or WAS, I haven't watched the show too recently but I seem to remember him growing at least somewhat as a person) a bigot, but that he's just so damn CLUELESS about human nature. That's what ultimately leads him to make these ridiculous comments that are gross and bigoted. As you pointed out, he thought that some sexist comments were going to help him connect with the warehouse guys - he thinks that's what they wanted to hear. But then he just ends up looking like twice the ass: Once because he's being a sexist pig and once because they can tell he doesn't really believe what he's saying - he's just trying to suck up to them.

I've known people like Michael, and I HATED them. And yet, his complete and total lack of any kind of rudder is what makes him *human*. Don't get me wrong - he's totally gross - but can't we all relate to that at least a little bit? Wishing that some group of people in your life liked you more, but feeling like you just have no fucking clue what in the hell they want from you? The point of the show is watching him make tiny gains in the tact /decency department...and then watching him totally screw it all up and make it worse, and THEN watching his co-workers show that they are good human beings by being kind to him even though he doesn't really deserve it (except for the fact that he's still a human being and all human beings deserve some basic level of kindness). He's a deeply flawed character - that's the point. That's what makes him, and thus the show, interesting (to some people). I love Jim and Pam too, but they are the ones that you are supposed to love. It's easy to love them.