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Of course, Deanna isn't the only person put in the strip to tell us that Elly's ways are always right. As the Please-please-pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease-Love-Anthony letter tells us, he's pretty much the reward Liz received for finally admitting that she should be sensible and never do anything that scares her gutless imbecile parents. This need to reward John and Elly for a lifetime of boomer asshattery would be repellent enough in and of itself were Liz to be a desirable marriage partner. Given how damaged a person she is, it's next to impossible to contemplate the Settlepocalypse without vomiting in terror.

To start with, Liz is somewhat passive and tends to react to stress by curling up into the fetal position. While she might tell herself that she's a strong person who's in control of her life, history teaches us that she simply drifts through life subconsciously expecting to be rescued from anything that might possibly scare her or expose her to anxiety or even to having to make a decision for herself.

This is because Liz hasn't got any sort of courage in her. Much as Elly wasted her life being afraid of humiliation and failure, Liz tends to be incapacitated by most situations she encounters and can only do things when she wills herself into a comforting unawareness of her surroundings. Sadly, reality can only be kept at bay for only so long. This leads us to the last major personality flaw.

Said defect is her terror of being caught out and punished. From the time she tried to yell "I LITTLE!!!!" in an attempt to not accept the consequences that were only to be suffered by ugly brothers and sisters who breathe her air with her permission to her calling the Evil Career Woman an ice machine because the poor fool tried to get someone who thinks she deserves a free pass to be a jerk because everyone haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaates her, Liz tries very hard to not see that she is mostly to blame for her problems.

Good thing for her that Anthony doesn't actually see her for who she is. Since he wants a passive idiot who will do any stupid thing in a doomed effort to please her parents, she's found the douchenozzle she deserves to marry for being an imbecile.

Date: 2013-10-28 01:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kefkaownsall.livejournal.com
To be fair Elly punishes Nizzie for no reason

Date: 2013-10-28 02:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dreadedcandiru2.livejournal.com
Elly thinks that there's a reason so obvious, it doesn't need to be explained. Said reason only makes sense if you're crazy, stupid and immature.

Date: 2013-10-29 01:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] princessgos.livejournal.com
So I'm reading this weeks Sunday Foob, and it's the traditional Holloween "Ellie makes an elaborate costume that her ungrateful brat doesn't appreciate" strip, this time a Sherlock Holmes outfit.

For Crying Out Loud, Woman! Mike isn't up for the lead in Hound of the Baskervilles! He's a little boy who wants to dress up as a superhero and get candy, just like all his friends!
Edited Date: 2013-10-29 01:39 am (UTC)

Date: 2013-10-29 06:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dreadedcandiru2.livejournal.com
Lynn isn't capable of seeing that. What she does see is that she wants to express herself and her horrible child wants to take her freedom of expression away from her. His freedom to be what he wants is not only irrelevant, it must come at her expense.

Date: 2013-10-29 03:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] princessgos.livejournal.com
She really is a total narcissist, isn't she?

The fact that any kid wearing that outfit would be teased mercilessly completely escapes her.
Edited Date: 2013-10-29 03:07 pm (UTC)

Date: 2013-10-29 05:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dreadedcandiru2.livejournal.com
Of course it does. The Pattersons's habit of never associating their behaviour with how their children are treated comes from Lynn's blind spot about that.

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