Sunday, July 29, 2012

HELLO, Predator much?

I don't think anybody in the world reads this, which is fine, but I have two things I want to get off my chest and I'm not going back to Facebook for it. 1. Why am I the only person who thinks that a married 41 year old, in a position of power over a 22 year-old woman, sleeping with her, is a predator. He's old enough to be her goddamned father! (I work in family planning, trust me on this.) I don't know any of these people and I 90% don't care, but that 10% wants to whap him upside the head. And then young Pattinson, although more gently, for not seeing the power issues. She was 17 when she met Pattinson, he was 21. This is not a ridiculous age gap, but it requires some understanding on his part. I wish her a peaceful heart and good luck. This will all be fine in the end. If it is not yet fine, it is not yet the end. But she should get herself to a good therapist for a bit. Such behavior is understandable in 22 year-olds but not something she should be carrying forward. 2. The Central African Republic may, as Matt Lauer said in the commentary have 80 spoken languages, but I doubt it. 80 dialects, maybe, but closer to a dozen languages. And it does have the truly wonderful gift of a national trade language, Sangho. It made me mad to have the only detail of that country be a "gee whiz aren't Africans funny" bit. 3. And while I'm at it, a third thing, who was the tall skinny guy at Buckingham Palace with HM and Bond???

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