Posts by Emma Hart
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I'm on the other side of both those debates with Emma and Megan.
I am aware that part of my problem with Pascalle is that she reminds me of an ex-girlfriend.
That aside, I do still value smart/cunning/bastardly over nice. In general. My partner and close friends manage to be smart AND nice.
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Has everyone forgotten that Judd's marriage to Monica ended after he had an affair with the wife of a criminal? This was pre-Cheryl.
He's no saint!
Monica was horrible. Cheryl is great. Cheryl is nicer, overall, than Pascalle. Ergo, I think, audience sympathy was with him before and against him now, despite Cheryl's reaction to Tama's death.
Crying is a given. But nobody better be killing Hayden bloody Peters.
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Let me, as the fourth child of a beneficiary, give this one more go.
How is it "punishment" for parents if society says it will only pay for say 3 children as others have suggested upthread? We can certainly agree its punishment for the children involved, but that's exactly what Working for Families does already and I don't see a widespread clamour amongst society to overturn it
Okay, deeply opposed to the way WFF discriminates against children on the basis of their parents' source of income.
And I'm going to be repeating things people have already said.
What if you have two children, and then twins? What if you don't have absolute concrete control over your reproduction, like the people we know whose third, fourth and fifth children were conceived while they were using increasingly severe contraceptive methods, including the one conceived after the vasectomy? What if you have four children while you don't need state support, and then become ill or disabled, or have one spouse die?
These aren't niggly little details that could be worked out in implementation, they're reasons such a process could never be implemented without injustice.
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Pascalle is always going to be dumb as a stump, but she's got an emotional intelligence that's easy to miss.
Yeah, I know I'm supposed to like Pascalle more than I do. I don't. I can't fucking stand her, which has made her storyline this series difficult for me.
I would really like to see Jethro take a fall tonight.
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It's kittens, isn't it. We're all getting kittens!
A pony. Get with the inwards lingo.
Okay, I think it's safe to say it's not a pony.
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I had a serious discussion (yes, in a pub) about whether the real protagonist of OF is not Cheryl, but Loretta. It's my theory and I'm not entirely convinced by it, but Loretta is the character who changes over the six series. She's the one who has a character arc. (There was some disagreement about whether Munter changed in about the second series, or his writing just got better, as with Ianto in Torchwood.)
I'm approaching tonight with a certain amount of dread and a reminder that Hamlet is a tragedy.
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By saying there is no unlimited right to have children? Hardly seems to qualify as harm or punishment.
If you're planning to just SAY it, no. Were you? Or, to repeat my previous question, how?
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There's a difference between supporting children's current and future needs and setting up social arrangements that encourage parents to make more children.
a) Let's see some proof that they do, that people actually have children just for the money.
b) how is there a difference? I mean, in practical terms, on the ground, how do you discourage (ie punish) parents, without materially harming their children's welfare?
Also, from a 'grrr, them's my taxes' point of view, what's the difference between one family with six kids, and three families with two kids? It's not like we have a runaway birth rate. It's not, in fact, like this is actually a problem, is it? Or, what Danielle said.
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I can't begin to imagine the grief this family feels and I'm genuinely humbled by the grace of Duncan Woods.
Duncan and Emma are wonderful, wonderful people, and I'm glad that their compassion and understanding has got attention for a change, rather than vengeance-screaming. Also, Duncan teaches at Unlimited, and has a pretty good grasp on what works with teenagers and what doesn't.
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Do you know, that despite having stayed at my house several times since my buying the book, she has never inscribed it.
Adding another to the list of Totally Unsurprising Things, often when Megan and I are together, we forget things.