Saturday, 24 August 2024
The one where John forgets that Elly can't laugh at her own folly any more than he can.
Synopsis: It's another one of those things where it runs a panel too long. That's because John is a damn communist who can't not ruin a nice moment with a withering put-down.
Summary: Johnny Jumped-Up doesn't think that Elly's hurt feelings are funny....they're ( Read more... )
Trash Bag Johnny has always had a great big problem: the self-defeating idea that the feelings of other people are a great big joke:
while he himself is a real person with real feelings:
so must never be laughed at. There is no doubt in my mind that his treating Patsy O'Connor the same shabby way that he treats Elly got his stupid ass dumped and the jabbering dupe is still trying to figure out why.
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John did not like being laughed at. Rod Johnston, on the other hand, had to get used to it coming on a regular basis.
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He also had to get used to reading the strip to see what 'nothing' was. The reason Elly/Lynn never told her husband to his face what he'd done wrong
is the sneaking fear that it actually was nothing. You might think that a woman who threw a tantrum about buying eyeglasses in bulk without calming down, apologizing or asking forgiveness has no shame but she's trying to suppress the ultimate fungus person: herself:
One would expect that her conscience is telling her that Rod might have any idea what he did and might not even have done it.....but she can't back down or she'll just get bulldozed.
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He also had to get used to reading the strip to see what 'nothing' was.
The classic part of Rod Johnston's Suddenly Silver essay was that bit. He was a man in fear of his wife.
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The best way to avoid being seen as lazy, useless and stupid is to not be lazy, useless and stupid. Last month, my sister overheard a remark praising her younger sibling and she responded "everyone's always praising her, and everyone thinks I'm a bum." I told her that my definition of a bum is someone who lives off someone else their entire life, and if the shoe fits, she seems to enjoy wearing it.
Elly is desperate to be seen as an equal partner in this relationship despite the fact that she never lived up to her side of the bargain beyond being fertile. She didn't keep a clean house, she didn't raise decent kids, she didn't provide nice meals, and above all she acted as if she was doing her husband and children an enormous favor simply by existing. The reason her marriage lasted is because her husband was ready to double-down on his bid for the title of King of the Simps, even to the point of buying her a business she could retire from 15 minutes later.
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