Bitin' Off Heads

[brigid]

1-27-2023

The punchline is that they're going to have sex.

The punchline is always that they're going to have sex, unless the punchline is that they are currently having sex or just had sex.

And once again McEldowney has managed to take a story line about small children and turn it into a punchline about how these two adults are going to fuck.

And I just... need to put this in context.

These two little girls invented a board game that they're really excited about and have been enjoying playing.

They tell their parents about it.

Their dad is excited to play it, in part because you get to scream "doom," and their mom keeps prompting him to be upset about the game for some reason.

They both sit down with the kids, around the board game, then they get up and leave.

They get up and they leave so they can talk about fucking.

I do not understand what Edda's objections to this game are, especially as she was a violent child AND this is extremely normal behavior for kids the age these girls are. I also don't know why she's leaning on Amos to "do something" or "say something" or whatever. She's a very opinionated person who has NEVER had an issue expressing her opinion before to the point that it's a defining trait of hers. It feels like we're veering into some gender essentialism here, some gender essentialism that was mostly lacking previously.

We came so close to seeing these two parent their kids, to seeing their kids as people. These kids made a fun sounding game. Their parents sat down to play with them. Their dad was excited to play with them. We came SO CLOSE to a STORY, to something HAPPENING.

And then veered away at the last second.

It's so incredibly frustrating.

It also makes me want to play Bitin' Off Hedz, which I haven't played in a good 20 years.