Saturday, 14 September 2024
The one where we're reminded the only joy Elly allows herself is bellowing about how no one cares.
Synopsis: After praising herself for other people's accomplishments, Elly brags about how enjoyable it is to feel under the gun all the time.
Summary: All success is due to Elly's being indispensable. All failure is due to no one listening to Elly. ( Read more... )
Strips like this one are not only predicated on her confusing pointless busywork that nobody expects of her with productive effort:
but also by the belief that child-rearing is demeaning and degrading:
because when she pictures motherhood, she sees a world where other people are allowed to come and go as they please while she is trapped and forgotten and taken for granted:
because she doesn't see immediate rewards. Hell, she makes a point of not 'actually' realizing her children can overhear her defeated sounding whining that they'll only ever really appreciate her twenty years after she dies.
What is lost on this fragile dolt is that people do expect her to know things about her children and say cruel and hurtful things about how her smug ignorance makes her an unsympathetic failure. What they don't know is that Lynn has gone on record as saying that it is cruel and unfair of people who clearly hate her and want her to suffer to know things about her children because she did know them all her life.
The interesting thing is that the man who predicted the creation of the sports utility vehicle believed that suburbs like Milborough were designed to drive the Mary Drones of the world batty by cutting them off from community and stimulation. Maybe it's not all her fault that the Mary Drone jabbing her finger in the air is ausgespielt.
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Elly will do absolutely nothing of value with all this free time she now has. Nothing at all. But she's FREE FREE FREE to look in the mirror and tell herself that she's FREE. And we are supposed to relate- why, exactly?
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We aren't emotionally stunted child women who hate evil, conflict causing men for passing an unfair law that makes it a crime to throw children off an overpass. We're not supposed to.
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John, your wife wants a volunteer job because that's the kind of job she can do or NOT do as she pleases, and from which she can't be fired. Your wife is kind of useless. Figure it out.
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I've been fired from volunteer work.
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Interesting. Me too. In my case, the guy for whom I was volunteering just decided he would rather do it himself than explain to me how he wanted it done.
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Figuring out that she's useless means admitting that he is a poor judge of character.
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Knock it off with the French, Elly, you're no Morticia and John's no Gomez.
Strips 2 and 3 prove she has no sanity.
Strip #4. Not only the usual missing question marks but John lied "I didn't exactly mean it like that" (yes, you did, John! yes, you did!)* and then immediately copped to lying "but what else would you call it"
Strip #5 Is April choking??!!
*please read that mentally in Samuel L. Jackson's voice
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The jolly jumper gave her a wedgie.
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It looks like she's choking.
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