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Complain on the teacher eval?
Hope you’re not being charged.
I started waking up to an alarm 7 days a week. It has helped me wake up earlier for work. Unfortunately, my sleep time is still 4am so I end up almost fainting from exhaustion at random times in the afternoon/evening. I’m not sure it’s an improvement, but at least I don’t miss morning meetings.
Omelas is a powerful parable, but it isn’t applicable to our society because we are all locked in; there is no decent society to go to, no place to escape to. We cannot leave.
“The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” Is An Inapplicable Parable For Our Time
Omelas is everywhere. There is no road to lead you away from it. All the alternatives get bombed to smithereens or bullied into submission by the IMF.
Omelas’ prosperity is widely shared. In our world, more and more of us struggle for daily necessities.
And if there were only 1 kid being tortured, I mean, that would be a nice change.
Omelas is a paradise compared to what we have.
Yeah, exactly. The viewers are cheering on Walt and Skyler is the bump in the road, the unfun bitch yelling at the kids to stop having fun.
I mean, the showrunners also had Skyler do all sorts of shady things to make her seem “complicated”. It was an attempt to make her interesting next to Walt but basically it just removed whatever sympathy viewers might have for a person in her situation.
A big chunk of the reason Skyler drives people up the wall into intense loathing / hating reactions (quote: “I hate her ever-living guts”, quote: “I hate her ball busting, control freakish, white bread, housewifey milquetoast ways”) is misogyny. She’s a wife and the wife’s role in a story is to support the male protagonist. 100%. No ifs, no doubts, no quibbling. Even if the protagonist is an antihero undergoing a downward spiral into crime and murder, the wife must help out, or at least, understand.
Skyler doesn’t support her husband in the wish fulfillment journey of weak nerdy white teacher transforming into international drug lord badass, therefore she makes a lot of people’s heads explode with hate.
I’m not saying this applies to any of you, I’m sure your reasons for hating her are valid and based on something totally unrelated. I’m just saying this is “a big chunk” of why Skyler is one of the most disliked characters in TV history.
If you’re interested in watching a discussion of the extreme hatred of Skyler and an analysis go check out Jack Saint’s video, Why Do You Hate Skyler White?