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Mar. 28th, 2018 12:28 pmAs I do every morning, I check the notifications on my phone that I received while I was sleeping. Now that I'm "kinda" back on Facebook, I hit a FB notification and ended up scrolling Facebook for a good while. One after another, the posts on my feed began to make me feel uneasy and angry. Nothing out of the ordinary. Just the insane bullshit that has now become the norm.
And then there was the Roseanne thing. The reboot premiered last night, so that has been a trending topic. And it seems my friends are torn about it all.
I was never a Roseanne fan to begin with. I found her crass and annoying. Any redeeming quality on that show might have been found in Dan or Darlene. Roseanne seemed to normalize "white trash" and anti-intellectualism. Now that I am grown and have had therapy, I recognize some of those characterizations in my own family. Perhaps not on the surface, but under the layers that aren't so transparent.
Not being a fan of a show that has been getting a lot of hype isn't what has been bothering me. What bothers me is Roseanne, the person. For the last few years, she has been a horrible human being. I'm not just talking about her being a Trump supporter. I'm talking about Roseanne being a hate-filled racist who has continuously spewed her nonsense as well as damaging conspiracy theories. That is, until the reboot of her show came along.
To put it plainly, Roseanne Barr is a total cunt.
And because she is who she is, what she has said and done, I have become quite conflicted when my friends - who share the same values as I do - are praising this hag's show. I'm definitely disappointed.
A friend tweeted during the airing that it was "painful" and seemed "kind of forced," so naturally I wanted to look. Only five minutes told me all I needed to know. Unfunny sarcasm (the worst sarcasm) while trying to be two things at once.
Granted, it was the first episode, and those are usually kind of lame. That and my bias as well as my higher standards for entertainment, I think it's safe to say that I won't become a fan anytime in the future.
And as far as my friends who have put their values aside for a few lame laughs, I'm still processing that mess.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit avoiding Facebook.
And then there was the Roseanne thing. The reboot premiered last night, so that has been a trending topic. And it seems my friends are torn about it all.
I was never a Roseanne fan to begin with. I found her crass and annoying. Any redeeming quality on that show might have been found in Dan or Darlene. Roseanne seemed to normalize "white trash" and anti-intellectualism. Now that I am grown and have had therapy, I recognize some of those characterizations in my own family. Perhaps not on the surface, but under the layers that aren't so transparent.
Not being a fan of a show that has been getting a lot of hype isn't what has been bothering me. What bothers me is Roseanne, the person. For the last few years, she has been a horrible human being. I'm not just talking about her being a Trump supporter. I'm talking about Roseanne being a hate-filled racist who has continuously spewed her nonsense as well as damaging conspiracy theories. That is, until the reboot of her show came along.
To put it plainly, Roseanne Barr is a total cunt.
And because she is who she is, what she has said and done, I have become quite conflicted when my friends - who share the same values as I do - are praising this hag's show. I'm definitely disappointed.
A friend tweeted during the airing that it was "painful" and seemed "kind of forced," so naturally I wanted to look. Only five minutes told me all I needed to know. Unfunny sarcasm (the worst sarcasm) while trying to be two things at once.
Granted, it was the first episode, and those are usually kind of lame. That and my bias as well as my higher standards for entertainment, I think it's safe to say that I won't become a fan anytime in the future.
And as far as my friends who have put their values aside for a few lame laughs, I'm still processing that mess.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit avoiding Facebook.
