Illusion of Control
No spankings this week for me. I'm on time, and on my best behaviour (relative to the PMR standard of behaviour though). I actually wanted to share a funny link this week that I got sent - Straw Feminists - a hilarious take on the Straw Man argument technique. The comic is a hilarious depiction of the notion that all feminists are ball breaking ( Read more... )
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One thing I have always appreciated about CH's characters is that they are flawed. There's a little secret out there that I would like to share, no one is perfect! Does anyone really have a perfect life? No one is infallible.
Excellent point about how 'good' Mr.Cataliades' life is since he apparently has all the answers on how to deal with telepathy. I for one would be so disappointed if Mr.C shows up in the last book and teaches Sookie how to perfectly control her telepathy. (Who knows, perhaps he'll always be on the run and unable to stop by for a sandwich and telepathy101 lessons...)
Disabilities don't just disappear over night. Sookie does what the rest of us have to do, deal with it and live life. I think she does a pretty darn good job!
Thanks for the post!
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Oh shush. I am perfect. :D But yeah - it's easy to say from the luxury of our couches that Sookie should do blah blah blah, but it doesn't work that way. She has so many bigger badder consequences than someone else who fucks up something simple.
Lol - he'll eat her out of house and home with his love of ham. :D Mr. Cataliades doesn't live free of problems, so I'm not sure why looking at him anyone would think he can tell Sookie how to live a sedate life. He's constantly running around in the thick of trouble.
She does - and she does a brilliant job considering she's still sane.
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Lol at finding it hard to sit still. It would totally cheapen it to give her a solution that would lead to her doing everything perfectly. Of course, it's pretty perfect for the whole telepath organised attacks, like on Donald Callaway. And yeah - I would hate the ending where she was living with Eric because of luuuurve and ignoring all those fine human men who don't have killer colleagues who wouldn't beat her up.
They are meant to be self-protective, but I also think it's a mistake to just assume that you can do everything because you think so - particularly when it leads to bashing Sookie. And I can take criticism of Sookie - but when that's all there seems to be of her, then that pretty much sucks.
I haven't - but I can totally empathise. I fangirl Peter Dinklage. Pity he's married...and that I'm married. I'd run away with him and his charisma. :D We had a guy with dwarfism at my high school, and he was really popular with the girls, but he certainly got his fair share of rude stares.
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Sookie is doing extremely well under the circumstances. She is hearing everything people is saying - which is a lot of BS, probably - and yet functioning. She is dealing with monsters and yet surviving. She is poor, lonely and has (or at least, had) crappy friends and yet she is nice to other people.
What more could anyone expect? IMO she`s Super-Sookie already.
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Lol - at this rate, I'll post once a year. :D
I don't think people with disabilities always feel like the disability is foremost. But there are times when they need consideration from the rest of us, and that means that when we ignore those disabilities, they just don't get it.
I agree with you that Sookie (and you) have been shaped by experiences - and if the telepathy disappeared tomorrow, she wouldn't know what to do with herself. She wouldn't instantly become Suzy Homemaker, that's for sure.
I also think that at the heart of your argument about it being indivisible from the person, there's really the kernel of truth - that we should accept people as they are - the good parts and the bad parts. It's unfortunate that Sookie usually isn't *allowed* to have bad parts. Everyone wants to erase them.
Oh yes - the straw feminist drives me around the bend.
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Some people learn and get better from suffering, som don´t, some get worse, but even if you become a better and less prejudicedf person more understanding of others, it does not mean that you reach perfect at once ... You may also easily see flaws in others, but not all your own.
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I don't think there's anything better about people who've been through suffering. They just become their true selves. Everything else gets stripped away when they're dealing with the tough shit. There's no real transformative quality to hardships, but we like to tell ourselves it's good for us, to make us all feel better.
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This spring the second oart of at Really good trilogy came out(?) in Sweden, I know it's been sold abroad, an is ready for hollywood, in the hope it will be the next "Hunger Games" ... In this part Eld" (Fire) has a character who was really nasty, and always on the top of the bullies, pushing people and hurting them, making life hell for schoolmates, (she has been nasty the whole first part), and now she has to change and starts to see what otthers see in her, something really painful, and ... it was Really good.
The author is called Mats Strandberg, really two people, "The Engelsfors-trilogy", first part "The Circle", Pick it upp if yyou find the time ...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Circle-Hammer-Sara-Elfgren/dp/0099568535
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I've bookmarked it, but I have so many things on my reading list, it could be nigh on 10 years until I get to it. :D
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