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Brains Are Stupid (Mine More Than Most)
Oct. 28th, 2018 09:42 pmSo, a couple of friends and I have a tv date every Sunday, more or less. At the moment, we are watching "Community" which I really love. The acting is amazing. The plot lines are pretty stupid, and it is a sitcom with all the ills to which the genre is heir, but seriously, the acting is amazing. One of the episodes involves a family day, where the community college members invite their family. Donald Glover's character is forced into squiring around his grandmother. He says that she is evil. One of the other characters insists that this cannot be the case, and to prove her point, tells a slightly tasteless joke to gramma. Gramma tells her to get a switch.
This is all very predictable. Glover's character tells his friend she shouldn't do this, she insists, finds a suitable stick, and brings it to gramma. Gramma tells her to drop her pants and bend over her knee, which the character with some amazement does. I was expecting them to play this for laughs, and wasn't real happy about it. The first blow startles the victim, the second clearly hurts, and she starts to cry on the third blow.
At which point, I hear myself say, "This is not ok. This is not ok. MAKE IT STOP. I CAN'T STAND THIS. THIS HAS TO STOP. I'm sorry, I have to leave, I have to..." and I leave the room walk into the living room, stand staring at a blank wall and cry. After a while, I say, "I'm 56 years old. This is stupid." It takes me a while to stop crying.
It was embarrassing. My friends are wonderful people, and this will never be used to hurt or mock me. But it is still embarrassing. And it was such a shock. I was completely blindsided by my own brain. I referred to it as a flashback, but I'm not sure that's technically correct. I didn't suddenly relive a childhood experience. But I was utterly overwhelmed by an extreme distress, and taken completely by surprise.
Brains are really weird.
Donald Glover is a wonderful actor, and I need to look for the actor that plays Abed, because he is amazing. Glover has charm and charisma. The other guy has fucking range, and gorgeous timing. I will watch the rest of the series. But damn, that was a shock.
This is all very predictable. Glover's character tells his friend she shouldn't do this, she insists, finds a suitable stick, and brings it to gramma. Gramma tells her to drop her pants and bend over her knee, which the character with some amazement does. I was expecting them to play this for laughs, and wasn't real happy about it. The first blow startles the victim, the second clearly hurts, and she starts to cry on the third blow.
At which point, I hear myself say, "This is not ok. This is not ok. MAKE IT STOP. I CAN'T STAND THIS. THIS HAS TO STOP. I'm sorry, I have to leave, I have to..." and I leave the room walk into the living room, stand staring at a blank wall and cry. After a while, I say, "I'm 56 years old. This is stupid." It takes me a while to stop crying.
It was embarrassing. My friends are wonderful people, and this will never be used to hurt or mock me. But it is still embarrassing. And it was such a shock. I was completely blindsided by my own brain. I referred to it as a flashback, but I'm not sure that's technically correct. I didn't suddenly relive a childhood experience. But I was utterly overwhelmed by an extreme distress, and taken completely by surprise.
Brains are really weird.
Donald Glover is a wonderful actor, and I need to look for the actor that plays Abed, because he is amazing. Glover has charm and charisma. The other guy has fucking range, and gorgeous timing. I will watch the rest of the series. But damn, that was a shock.
