Just a little (link) love: settling turmoil edition
November 16, 2017
Does Disney pay its fair share to the City of Anaheim?
A Japanese company called Family Romance hires out actors to play all kinds of roles and I had to wonder if this was real?? For the most part it seems harmless but some examples are horrifying. He’s playing a fake parent to a girl who has no idea he’s not her actual father. I’m reeling from revelations about my actual father and am imagining how incensed I would be to have been deceived at this level growing up. And I don’t understand renting an infant to present a grandchild to your parent. Isn’t the jig going to be up when you walk in still fully pregnant?? The fourth trimester doesn’t leave you THAT bloated.
Working mothers and their daughters talk: Ting added a bit of humor: “One of her main ambitions in life is to get paid more than my dad. It’s kind of mean, but what she was saying is that she wants to be respected as much as everyone else.” (that’s me!)
Doesn’t anyone feel like a cartoon villain when they talk like this?: “You’re all going to lose your heads over this!”
What’s your splurge? Donna asks. I haven’t splurged exactly, we’ve just been buying necessities. Oh, food. I bought Brie last month and it’s heavenly. We had to buy a bed and mattress for our guest room – we already have about 14 days of guests planned for the next three months. Possibly more.
I saw that Atlantic article pop up on The Billfold and it freaked me out mightily. That poor little girl not only is being constantly lied to by the adults in her life, but in the meantime thinks she has this absent father who barely wants to spend any time with her because of this other family he has to take care of but doesn’t introduce her to. So much emotional trauma for so little payoff.
RIGHT. And how traumatized will she be to learn that her “father” was a stranger paid to pretend to care about her? Trust issues for LIFETIMES.
I don’t even want to read that article about the faux family members. It sounds too distressing. But what did you decide about the guest room bed?
It was distressing!
We decided to go with a new frame and mattress from Amazon which was strangely cheaper than used from Craiglist for once.
Thanks for the shout-out, ma’am. As for the Family Romance…Ack! Trust issues 4-ever.
SO MUCH THERAPY.
WHAT THE!!!
After visiting Japan, I tell people that going there is the closest they’ll ever get to visiting another planet. It is as modern (more modern?), safe (safer?), clean (cleaner?), people are super kind and helpful (kinder? more helpful?), and as beautiful as anywhere in the Western world, but nearly everything else about it was completely alien to me, down to their pillows. I absolutely loved it, and everyone I met there, but there are definitely some traditions and parts of their culture which are more than a little messed up.
Case in point. That poor, poor child. And the dying person that thought they’d seen their grandchild before succumbing to death… My heart breaks for both of them.
There’s definitely a sense of alienness for those aspects that I can’t quite make sense of – which I have with most cultures where something specific seems so WRONG. Like lying this much to your own child. OMG.
[…] Revanche thinks this guy’s ongoing gig– pretending to be the father of a young lady at the behest of her mother— is kind of horrifying. And I completely agree! Also, if you’re supposed to be stealthily pretending to be another person, why have your face and real name published in a major publication? […]