Posted by Declan on February 4, 2007, at 19:11:30
In reply to Re: Yes, I am the weakest link. Goodbye. (Sob), posted by Phillipa on February 4, 2007, at 18:28:23
Hey PJ, I know about them from my kids who would drag me to Ricky Lake and the worse one (I forget who) and beg me to watch with them, which I did.
On one show (obviously scipted) there was this really obese man who may or may not have been justifying sex with a family member (it hardly matters) and he took his shirt off and held his manboobs and juggled them around and started to sing 'Don't you think I'm sexy?' (or something), and this started me thinking about shame and how we handle it over time. 100 years ago people accepted shame and now they demand to be freed from it. At the same time standards change so that humiliation becomes more common. Respect, so often mentioned, is so often denied.
You know that standard kid thing, really just a joke we share around here. You cut yourself shaving (badly) and the kid says 'What's that?' and you say 'I cut myself shaving' and the kid says 'You suck', and you both laugh because it is a joke about the denial of mutuality.
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