Currently in limited cinematic release in United Kingdom and Ireland after visiting a number of movie festivals throughout the world earlier this year and winning awards is movie drama DRAGONFLY with Brenda Blethyn and Andrea Riseborough in the lead roles. Paul Andrew Williams both wrote and directed the film in which Brenda plays neglected pensioner Elsie who finds an unexpected ally in her younger neighbour Colleen. Over time, a friendship grows but Elsie's resentful, guilt-ridden son stirs up tensions bringing shocking consequences. Jason Watkins also stars in the movie as Elsie's son.
Maybe daddy dearest shouldn't have abandoned the family so mama had to raise him on her own? She probably had to work multiple jobs to afford to keep him alive while daddy was off whoring around, so son got raised by himself. If dad stepped up and raised a real man, poor lady probably wouldn't have had to deal with such a little shit later in her later years.
We don't know daddy' story, maybe he died, or wasn't even informed, the fact she worked all day long does not excuse bad parenting, because she was the one who chose with whom she would make the baby. Mamas often love to use excuses for their bad choices.
While I can agree to a small extent on what you're saying, we're the product of our environment. If she had to work to support them (knowing the fact that women make considerably less than men, so she probably had multiple jobs), he was influenced more by his peers than her. You can't parent when you're forced to be away just to survive. That's not an excuse, that's a fact. Add in the psychological aspect of abandonment (probably stemming from an absentee father) that made him act crazy with his mother and the neighbor becoming friends, he probably thought she'd abandon him too.
Mom could have very well thought she was partnering with an upstanding male, but got the wool pulled over her eyes. Maybe dad did a switch like some men do and love bomb at first then turn into real assholes once settled down. Maybe child was the product of rape, even marital rape (which happens way more than you'd think. The discussions I've had with my own circle of women have left me feeling quite disgusted with men and how they respond when told no from their wives) so I feel like you've made excuses for an absent father (death being the ONLY excuse on why he wasn't a presence in this boy's life) and put the full blame on the mother for him turning out how he did. This is why we're seeing a shift in feminism and a rise in the male loneliness epidemic. Women are tired of carrying the weight and expectations that males have placed on them for centuries, then belittle them every chance they get. I'm kind of proud of our daughters for finally waking up and saying "no more." Men need to start being held accountable, especially when it comes to their offspring.
And women need to be held accountable for their choices, the world does not circle around them as they seem to think while coming up with excuses for their poor life choices as they always like to be forgiven for everything and justified. Male loneliness epidemic is not here because women want that but because men do not trust women anymore and are sick of them being so toxic all the time while it is men who break their backs in wars, mines, factories, fields, construction....
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A little bit horrorico too beside being poetico :)
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DeleteNothing worse than a crazy neighbor! Poor old lady probably had a shitty life dealing with a nutso son like that.
ReplyDeleteHe probably would not have been a nutso if she was a good mother, admittedly LOL
DeleteMaybe daddy dearest shouldn't have abandoned the family so mama had to raise him on her own? She probably had to work multiple jobs to afford to keep him alive while daddy was off whoring around, so son got raised by himself. If dad stepped up and raised a real man, poor lady probably wouldn't have had to deal with such a little shit later in her later years.
DeleteWe don't know daddy' story, maybe he died, or wasn't even informed, the fact she worked all day long does not excuse bad parenting, because she was the one who chose with whom she would make the baby. Mamas often love to use excuses for their bad choices.
DeleteWhile I can agree to a small extent on what you're saying, we're the product of our environment. If she had to work to support them (knowing the fact that women make considerably less than men, so she probably had multiple jobs), he was influenced more by his peers than her. You can't parent when you're forced to be away just to survive. That's not an excuse, that's a fact. Add in the psychological aspect of abandonment (probably stemming from an absentee father) that made him act crazy with his mother and the neighbor becoming friends, he probably thought she'd abandon him too.
DeleteMom could have very well thought she was partnering with an upstanding male, but got the wool pulled over her eyes. Maybe dad did a switch like some men do and love bomb at first then turn into real assholes once settled down. Maybe child was the product of rape, even marital rape (which happens way more than you'd think. The discussions I've had with my own circle of women have left me feeling quite disgusted with men and how they respond when told no from their wives) so I feel like you've made excuses for an absent father (death being the ONLY excuse on why he wasn't a presence in this boy's life) and put the full blame on the mother for him turning out how he did. This is why we're seeing a shift in feminism and a rise in the male loneliness epidemic. Women are tired of carrying the weight and expectations that males have placed on them for centuries, then belittle them every chance they get. I'm kind of proud of our daughters for finally waking up and saying "no more." Men need to start being held accountable, especially when it comes to their offspring.
And women need to be held accountable for their choices, the world does not circle around them as they seem to think while coming up with excuses for their poor life choices as they always like to be forgiven for everything and justified. Male loneliness epidemic is not here because women want that but because men do not trust women anymore and are sick of them being so toxic all the time while it is men who break their backs in wars, mines, factories, fields, construction....
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