More "Wife Swap"

[judecorp]

I was about to start yet another journal entry with "Okay, so..." and then I realized that I do that far too often. You'd never know I was a smart kid back in the day because it sure doesn't show! Oh well.

Tonight's "Wife Swap" really blew me away. I mean, I don't even know what to say. I guess I live in a plastic kindness bubble where people just don't treat people that way, you know? Especially when she and her husband went on about how their spirituality was all about honoring people and caring for them. Gah. I just can't imagine.

I don't expect the whole world to agree with me but I don't expect the world to treat me like crap either. I have always been so shocked whenever anyone ever yelled anything at me out of a car window or treated me poorly in some way. And I still remember acutely how sad and hurt I felt when Ohio passed Issue One by such a large majority because it felt like a serious and personal smack in the face to me, since I'd devoted so much time and energy to serving my community there.

And I'm a pacifist, but by the gods, if anyone ever ever EVER spoke about my Jennifer that way I think I would claw their eyes out. (Or at least pout a lot and get really mad.)

Comments

[estrange.livejournal.com]

That lady was just awful. How could she live with herself and call herself a good person when she treats others that way? And why didn't her husband stand up and say anything? The lady (I can't remember her name) kept saying how she is in a "conservative republican Christian" household yet she's in a biracial marriage, which you'd think would make her more liberal. I mean don't you think she would have gone through some discrimination in her life from being in a biracial marriage? I'd expect she has and you'd think she learned to be more accepting from it but apparently not. That's just sad.

The things she said were horrible! And acting like her daughter was in harm because she was there! It's really sad. What is wrong with people?

I live in the same plastic kindness bubble as you.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

I know you do, that's why I like you so much!

You know what I thought was really tacky? The way she was always talking about how much money her husband makes, and how they buy the best of everything, and how good it is to be his wife because they are so rich. It really made me sick to my stomach. Why doesn't she take some of that money and her "Christian" beliefs and do something GOOD with it instead of buying fancy (girly) sleigh beds for her CHILDREN.