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One can only marvel.
You consider her your friend? And you know she likes Oprah? And…you still sit there and make snide remarks?
My husband is my best friend. He likes listening to Hank Williams on Deezer. And it wouldn’t OCCUR to me to sit here at the adjoining computer and make snide remarks about Hank Williams and that peculiarly nasal baritone–because he is my friend, and I want him to be happy. And it would make him sad to hear me making snide remarks about something he enjoys. And because he’s my friend, I don’t want him to be sad, I want him to be happy. And so when “Take These Chains From My Heart” starts up for the fourth time in an evening, I zip the lip, put on *my * headphones and go over to Youtube and learn how to fillet fish.
How do you think your friend feels, deep down inside, under that Politeness Face she puts on every day, when you make snide remarks about something she enjoys?
You’re kidding, right?
My daughter is a total Buffy freak; it’s All Buffy All The Time at our house. And any word of criticism of the ABATT agenda at our house, even said with a loving, joking parental smile, elicits fury, and a few well-chosen remarks about Star Trek (directed at me) or Hank Williams (at Dad).
Normal people get huffy when someone criticizes them, or their TV-viewing choices, or their hairstyle, or their dog, even in a supposedly joking way, because even a joking remark criticizing your dog is still criticism. What universe do you live in, that people don’t get mad at implied criticism?
And–you’re not talking about a “single joke” here, a one-shot deal. You’re not talking about my daughter making a single joke about William Shatner. You’re talking about my daughter sitting here and making non-stop snide remarks about William Shatner while I’m trying to watch Wrath of Khan. And you think I’m gonna sit here and take it? Fuck no. She’s gonna get the cold stare, and the “don’t you have homework or something?” Because I, unlike your supervisor, have no compunctions about telling someone when they’re behaving like an asshole.
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It was a joke. really. Now can we refocus on the topic at hand?
But your curiously detailed explanation aside, to get pissed at a jab about your favorite TV character, unless there is some evident deep seeded venom riding along, is silly.