Louis CK digs Jill’s ass.
Then we’re treated to the most homoerotic roller-skating pileup in history. But I’m saving that for fundie innuendo time.
Sigh. So it’s time for me to move on to capping 19 Kids and Counting. This was a tipping point for me. I was just so disgusted and enraged by how poor Josie was being treated without anything resembling respect or dignity, with no regard for her comfort. I was also disgusted at seeing such private moments of fear and grief on display for ratings. Not so much JimBob and Michelle, but the kids have no say in this shit, and I find it hard to believe that at least one of them didn’t want to be alone with their feelings for a while.
It took the Jubilee debacle for me to blow over into full-blown loathing for these people, but this was the beginning of the end.
I remember the day Josie was born. Specifically, I remember so many people I know who have the same love/hate Duggar dynamic that I do, who threw aside the bullshit for a moment. We were all so sad, some of us scared, everyone who prayed praying their guts out that somehow this baby would be okay. And I love those memories, because I hold onto it as proof that most of the people who have the love/hate Duggar feels that I do are, while disgusted with the parents (and Josh), genuinely invested in the children and genuinely care about them. I love the Duggar love/hate fans so much more than the blind followers who hang on their every word and treat them as false idols. It means so much more when you can say “I find this about your life terribly objectionable, but the fact remains, I still like you.” Seriously, you guys, you are my kind of people.
People ask with regularity, why do you spend so much energy on the Duggars if you hate them? And…that’s really my answer. I don’t hate them. I hate the parents for what they’re doing to their kids, and I hate Josh because he’s a dickbag, but the rest of them? I may not like their beliefs, their politics, their xenophobia, their rude behavior, but I LIKE THESE PEOPLE. I was going to say “kids” but in a normal world, Jana and John would be getting ready to graduate college in a couple of months.
Another thing I get a lot from people is “how can you like them knowing that once they’re on their own they’re going to be hardcore fundie conservatives trying to vote America back into the Dark Ages?” Which is more than a valid question, but while I unwaveringly loathe the politicians they support, I don’t have it in me to dislike otherwise good people because of their political views, no matter how offensive I find them. Shit, I couldn’t talk to half of my family and some of my friends and favorite people if that were the case. And I do believe Duggars #2-19, plus Amy, to be good people. Same holds for all 21 of the Bateses, though that Nathan Bedford Forrest picture in the house really put me off of them for months.
This was supposed to be a brief comment about my dreading going into the next phase of capping. Didn’t see it going on this long. Sorry, y’all. You don’t have to read it. I probably should’ve said that at the beginning, though, because if you’re reading that now you probably already did. Sorry.
As my apology to you, here’s a picture of JimBob looking like he got a facial from Gil Bates. Photo courtesy of katherineanneausten.tumblr.com, better known around here as Mrs. WTF, or in my home, as the most wonderful girl in the world. Okay now I’m just being nauseating. Peace out!
,Just call him JizzBob!
I never noticed until recently, but someone on the crew really likes filming long, lingering shots of Jill’s ass. Frankly it’s a little defrauding.
