@spencer_askew It’s a tension thing. When it’s done WELL, the audience is allowed to understand without being required to approve. Poor versions collapse into special pleading or aestheticized cruelty. And those poor versions are the extreme majority.
My 74 father-in-law sat down with a bottle and told me the TRUTH.
Our mothers' generation were doing the SAME shit. The only difference is there was no Instagram to record it.
He left his first wife - cheating.
Second wife - cheating.
And the CRAZIEST one - his ex-wife cheated on him, left him, gave ANOTHER man his son.
He only found out because her own cousin snitched and said "that kid with your ex-wife's new man looks just like you."
He went and saw the kid. His blood. Another man raising his son thinking it's his.
This is 51 years ago years ago. No phones. No social media.
They were cheating with neighbors, with bosses. The only way you caught them was if you came home unannounced or a neighbor told you.
So don't give me this "women back then were loyal" fantasy. They were just better at HIDING it.
Modern women are not worse. Their cheating is just TELEVISED.
“They came here legally and assimilated”
Actually they scammed their way hear to live in ethnic enclaves where they erected statues to foreign gods
“Well, nevertheless…”
No. Fuck you. You're not going to rewrite history and pretend like you weren't celebrating it the minute it happened. We didn't forget something we all saw with our own eyes a year ago. You're not gaslighting anyone on this one, you disgusting, shameless liar.