You make him jealous!
Or at least that is the lesson you would have learned if you had read the comic For Better or For Worse over the past week or two.
Elizabeth has an emotionally abusive ex, Warren, who cheated on her with her best friend and made her travel to the Canada outback to visit them before they told her.
So she gets back with Anthony, the “nice guy” she dated all through high school.
Fast forward to some time later, and despite being together constantly and vague statements from Anthony to string Elizabeth along, no marriage proposal.
Then one night Warren shows up out of the blue, wanting Elizabeth to take him back. The phone rings and inexplicably, Warren feels it is his place to answer Elizabeth’s house phone. Of course it’s Anthony calling.
Elizabeth later explains that nothing funny was going on, and Anthony believes her. But still, he must have been threatened out of his comfy, “let’s coast like this forever” reverie because THE VERY NEXT DAY he and Elizabeth are engaged.
Isn’t that such a lovely lesson for our young ladies? “Make him jealous if you want to snare him!” and “Men only want a toy when they see another man wanting to play with it, like every creature with a Y chromosome has the psyche of a two year old at the toybox screaming ‘mine! mine!’”
OK, I think the latter point is actually true. But still…
Oh, and I LOVE how Anthony and Elizabeth leave the prospect of getting married UP TO ANTHONY’S DAUGHTER TO HAVE THE FINAL SAY. Yeah, let’s leave the major life decisions up to the toddlers in the house! (Sad thing is that many of today’s kids are truly being raised this way.)
“If it’s OK with you…” !?!?
Anthony’s daughter Francie is a spoiled little obnoxious brat that gets away with saying the rudest things and has been raised to think she is the center of the universe, getting her way at every turn. Even though she is fictional, it annoys me that the comic author is portraying this child’s behavior as being cute and funny.
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This is so wrong on so many levels. I so agree with you.
Mmmm, sounds like a pretty realistic comic strip to me, based on the kids I see out in the community these days … :neutral:
Ugh. And double ugh.
Speaking of asking kids for permission, that does seem to be the trend. I even see it on House Hunters on HGTV. “What do you think Suzie, should we buy this house?” Cut to Suzie who is five.
God what happened to people to make them this way with their kids?! Did they not get enough attention and now are smothering their kids? I don’t understand how sheltering and foam-padding your child’s entire life is beneficial to them.
I’m finding this a lot in advertising as well.
Children who make their parents look foolish, and everyone laughs (except me) because the kid is so clever.
You’re right.
Many kids are being raised this way.
Maybe the advertisers are right…maybe mum and dad really are jackasses, because any adult who lets a kid make a major life decision is a jackass.
That’s just silly. When my husband and I got engaged, we both told his young kids and explained that nothing would change. We didn’t ask them for permission to get married. It’s no wonder children these days are growing up with a heightened sense of entitlement.
I don’t know if that fosters feelings of entitlement or horrible feelings of way too much responsibility? Either way it’s just plain wrong.