On Phil and Georgia’s childlessness

[dreadedcandiru2]

Another thing about Elly that clearly seems to have alienated Georgia is the fact that she made no secret of her desire to revel in their confusion and hurt feelings. Knowing that the only time that Elly smiled and meant it when she was either volunteering derogatory information, anticipating something unpleasant or nursing an obsolete old grudge was almost as annoying as her unsubtle hints that their doing anything that she wouldn’t do is evil, bad and needs to be set to rights so that a vengeful, hostile, wilful, sullen, entitled and dumber-than-shit little brat stuffed in the body of a dimwitted little wifey can get her jollies avenging herself against an unfair little brother who ‘won’ their childhood. Having to listen to Elly rant about how the two of them are evilly failing society by evilly refusing to have the children that they probably couldn’t and shouldn’t raise coupled with her clearly getting off imagining how miserable, angry and confused the two of them would be seems to have given Georgia a measure of incentive to put distance between her and her insane moron of a sister-in-law. Back home in Montréal, she could at least count on her family to protect her from the maniac with the horse-bun, said freak’s horrible family and the clingy, mannish virago Phil is ‘supposed’ to have ‘done right by’.

I suppose that this would be overkill but it seems to me that watching Elly and her friends deal with their children is also a good reason to not have kids of her own. What she sees when she looks at Mike and Lizzie are two apathetic, slug-like losers being treated like supervillains by a hysterical clod and since she wants to avoid going insane raising members of a family who clearly have a mental defect that prevents them from listening, wants not to create dumb, lazy, entitled idiot children of her own.

Comments

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

I like to imagine Georgia had exes of her own that Phil had to awkwardly encounter at concerts and the like; she had to have a life outside the strip, after all.

I also imagine her making an ultimatum after first meeting the Pattersons that if Phil ever wanted kids they'd adopt, to avoid the risk of passing those genes on further than needed.

[dreadedcandiru2.livejournal.com]

She probably did. What's more, most of them made Phil feel rather insecure. The problem is that where she was supposed to ignore his whining about Connie, she was probably also supposed to apologize for having a past that didn't include him in it.

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

Ah, Phil doesn't need to feel insecure. Georgia likes him enough to deal with the hell that is a smoker going through withdrawal rather than leaving him for a non-smoker.

[dreadedcandiru2.livejournal.com]

Not that the dumb bastard ever displayed a hint of gratitude for her going above and beyond.

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

Eh, John Cheese on Cracked has left me more sympathetic for anyone attempting to quit smoking. Think of it like having to pull out your own toenails with pliers in order to ensure you live another decade; sure, the long-term benefit might be worth it, but the short-term pain will leave you resenting whoever advised you to do it.

[dreadedcandiru2.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough, this is one of the few things Lynn got right. We not only have Phil angsting because he had to kick the habit, we saw how nastily he treated the people around him.