Here's a really funny thing I've noticed....

You can't read this for as long as we all have without noticing that Elly, Michael and Liz seem to be refugees from a hysteria ward. The slightest upset and the three of them just plain flat out lose it and throw a childish temper fit. We contrast them with April who usually responds to life's little reverses with the occasional rueful sigh. The Emo Brigade hang a lampshade on their insane ignorance by referring to her as a walking tantrum. This is because they do not see things around them as they really are. Like a lot of closed-minded dumb people, they have firmly held opinions about how groups are SUPPOSSED to behave in a given situation. Teenaged girls are 'supposed' to be spoiled princesses who screech their way through life and, by gum, that's how they insist on seeing her. They and Daddy Asshat shut their eyes, minds and hearts to any behavior that would invalidate their empty-headed stereotype while jumping with both feet on anything that seems to confirm it.