What's in Connie's blindspot?
Jul. 2nd, 2016 11:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreadedcandiru2Of course, the realization that Molly is just supposed to endure taking crap from people because she isn't instantly wonderful about a stupid change in her life is sort of par for the course. After all, the whole move to Milborough was as well-thought out as the removal of Connie herself was. Greg did a stupid thing that probably messed up his career trajectory in order to avoid a boy that frightened him and Connie thought that she could work miracles by shoving wonderful things down Molly and Gayle's throats and that would make them instantly wonderful children who loved her better than the mother they were probably supposed to forget. In the words of probably about to become a cyborg detective Sterling Archer, that is so classic Connie.
This is because an outside observer would perceive Connie as being the perennial victim of her own unrealistic goals. After all, one of the first extended arcs had the needy, clingy idiot hare off to Montreal to fling herself at someone who just wasn't as in to her as she wanted and neeeeeeeded him to be and the collision with the reality that Phil will always sort of see her as an ex-girlfriend who's got too many issues to make any sort of relationship tenable made her saaaaaad while her current status is someone who's all disappointed that no one will let her be mother of the bride because Lawrence won't pretend to be straight just so she can be the center of attention. She lacks self-awareness so she doesn't know that her whole life is a series of self-induced crises that she willed upon herself by having eyes bigger than her stomack.
Said observer would also see Elly as being a terrible friend for not calling Connie on her own stupid crap but instead cheering her on as she destroyed herself. In this particular instance, Elly is aiding and abetting a folly by trying to pit the siblings against one another so that they might be normal and fight like scorpions. Sadly for her, Molly is too smart not to see what Elly is trying to do and manages to convince Gayle that the nice lady is not really her friend. This, of course, makes her an evil dark person because Elly is ENGLISH Canadian first and foremost and has the Anglo-Saxon tendency of having her feet planted firmly in the middle of the air while being able to see anything except that which is in front of her owing to a racial tendency towards fecal encephalopathy. There are no canny Scottish people in the strip using good old-fashioned common sense to save all those fatuous Sassenachs from themselves and the result is telling.
This is because an outside observer would perceive Connie as being the perennial victim of her own unrealistic goals. After all, one of the first extended arcs had the needy, clingy idiot hare off to Montreal to fling herself at someone who just wasn't as in to her as she wanted and neeeeeeeded him to be and the collision with the reality that Phil will always sort of see her as an ex-girlfriend who's got too many issues to make any sort of relationship tenable made her saaaaaad while her current status is someone who's all disappointed that no one will let her be mother of the bride because Lawrence won't pretend to be straight just so she can be the center of attention. She lacks self-awareness so she doesn't know that her whole life is a series of self-induced crises that she willed upon herself by having eyes bigger than her stomack.
Said observer would also see Elly as being a terrible friend for not calling Connie on her own stupid crap but instead cheering her on as she destroyed herself. In this particular instance, Elly is aiding and abetting a folly by trying to pit the siblings against one another so that they might be normal and fight like scorpions. Sadly for her, Molly is too smart not to see what Elly is trying to do and manages to convince Gayle that the nice lady is not really her friend. This, of course, makes her an evil dark person because Elly is ENGLISH Canadian first and foremost and has the Anglo-Saxon tendency of having her feet planted firmly in the middle of the air while being able to see anything except that which is in front of her owing to a racial tendency towards fecal encephalopathy. There are no canny Scottish people in the strip using good old-fashioned common sense to save all those fatuous Sassenachs from themselves and the result is telling.
