A) you are just sitting in a chair, thinking about how guilty you feel, instead of doing something productive while there are no kids around allegedly preventing you from doing something productive?
B) that your husband is paying for daycare for apparently no reason at all except that you need time to sit in a chair and feel guilty about it?
"Daycare is a fact of life..." for double-income families. Like "children are a fact of life..." for people who choose to have them. Once again, we have Elly pretending to have no agency. Sorry, but no. Your husband makes plenty of money for you to be a SAHM. Your kid is in daycare not out of necessity, but because you're a miserable lazy brat. Just OWN IT.
Admitting that she's the sort of idiot we see on the cover of the second pre-Patterson collection:
who sees a child as a superior form of doll means that she's why her life is chaos. She might suffer something that's only a defeat to the dishonest and have to apologize.
I love that cover- "mom" and "dad" being twee with each other while their baby bawls its head off in the distance. Stop congratulating each other on being mammals and get to work comforting your offspring, you numbties!
That's the thing: Elly thinks that her pointless busywork and succession of hobby jobs is something vital. She writes a column nobody cares about in a paper nobody reads, she was the library mule, she got talked into being the comedy relief in a political protest and she's about to run a hobby business into the ground. What's lost on her is that despite her belief that she's still invisible, people will be scaring children by telling them that The Dentist's Crazy Wife will be coming to get them if they misbehave for generations to come.
apparently she's decided to compromise by sitting inert and being useful to neither her child nor her community in any way whatsoever. Realizing this would no doubt result in another round of inert contemplation- while remaining perfectly still on that chair, of course.
Which leaves us with a problem. When she dies, who will actually notice? About the only thing that would make people that pay attention is the fact that the neighborhood is suddenly a less oppressive place to be.
I'm sure she likes to think that either she'll never die, or when she does people will lick her memory up and down like they do now that she's still alive, telling her that she's "ageless" and that she turned Lilliput's into a "legacy" and is the go-to person for parental advice. What she doesn't get is that silly lickspittles like that quickly move on to another person to brown-nose when their original focus is out of sight.
Which means that Carol will tell Connie and Deanna that her ass is for sitting, not kissing. It's a good thing that time travel is impossible. Showing Elly a world five years after she died would probably be a horrible let-down...and not because her screwy and gloomy prediction that her family would only start to appreciate her after she died came true. People will be in therapy to undo the damage her inertia caused and wondering why she never sought the help she needed.
Since her imagination does not function and she wants to make the family look worse off than it should actually be, we are not watching a Canadian content Carol Brady bounce off of Alice!
ever notice Alice never cleaned like a real maid? the closest she got was flicking a feather duster at a piece of already spotless furniture while cracking some joke. (She was shown cooking frequently, but that's not a maid's job, that's a cook's job.) Have you ever seen how dirty a real life bathroom or kitchen gets when nine people have been using it, especially if six of them are kids?
And here is the alleged irony:
that ignores the history of the strip:
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Why do you feel guilty, Elly? Is it because
A) you are just sitting in a chair, thinking about how guilty you feel, instead of doing something productive while there are no kids around allegedly preventing you from doing something productive?
B) that your husband is paying for daycare for apparently no reason at all except that you need time to sit in a chair and feel guilty about it?
"Daycare is a fact of life..." for double-income families. Like "children are a fact of life..." for people who choose to have them. Once again, we have Elly pretending to have no agency. Sorry, but no. Your husband makes plenty of money for you to be a SAHM. Your kid is in daycare not out of necessity, but because you're a miserable lazy brat. Just OWN IT.
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Admitting that she's the sort of idiot we see on the cover of the second pre-Patterson collection:
who sees a child as a superior form of doll means that she's why her life is chaos. She might suffer something that's only a defeat to the dishonest and have to apologize.
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I love that cover- "mom" and "dad" being twee with each other while their baby bawls its head off in the distance. Stop congratulating each other on being mammals and get to work comforting your offspring, you numbties!
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It's Teen Mom at twenty-eight. Mom and Dad don't have the guts or gear for the long haul.
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They look like teenagers starring in an ill-conceived 90s comedy-drama.
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"If I'm off doing something constructive, I feel guilty for not being home!"
How would you know? When have you ever tried that?
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That's the thing: Elly thinks that her pointless busywork and succession of hobby jobs is something vital. She writes a column nobody cares about in a paper nobody reads, she was the library mule, she got talked into being the comedy relief in a political protest and she's about to run a hobby business into the ground. What's lost on her is that despite her belief that she's still invisible, people will be scaring children by telling them that The Dentist's Crazy Wife will be coming to get them if they misbehave for generations to come.
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apparently she's decided to compromise by sitting inert and being useful to neither her child nor her community in any way whatsoever. Realizing this would no doubt result in another round of inert contemplation- while remaining perfectly still on that chair, of course.
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I'm sure she likes to think that either she'll never die, or when she does people will lick her memory up and down like they do now that she's still alive, telling her that she's "ageless" and that she turned Lilliput's into a "legacy" and is the go-to person for parental advice. What she doesn't get is that silly lickspittles like that quickly move on to another person to brown-nose when their original focus is out of sight.
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Which means that Carol will tell Connie and Deanna that her ass is for sitting, not kissing. It's a good thing that time travel is impossible. Showing Elly a world five years after she died would probably be a horrible let-down...and not because her screwy and gloomy prediction that her family would only start to appreciate her after she died came true. People will be in therapy to undo the damage her inertia caused and wondering why she never sought the help she needed.
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Everyone will notice how much quieter, less stressful and less expensive life is. Nothing of value will be lost.
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"Daycare is a fact of life..." for double-income families.
In one of her biographies, Lynn told the story about how she as a single mother qualified for daycare paid for by the government.
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ever notice Alice never cleaned like a real maid? the closest she got was flicking a feather duster at a piece of already spotless furniture while cracking some joke. (She was shown cooking frequently, but that's not a maid's job, that's a cook's job.) Have you ever seen how dirty a real life bathroom or kitchen gets when nine people have been using it, especially if six of them are kids?
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