Freaky Friday

Okay, Superman's kind of a freak. I mean, we knew he was bizarre, right? We knew he wasn't precisely normal and that he was lacking in some fairly basic socialization with regards to the opposite sex?

So, he and I still speak sometimes. I am weak; I admit it. I like chatting with him, and so I continue to do so even though there's no really good reason. Nothing substantive, mind you--just snarky one-liners, the likes of which have always passed between us.

So, sometime maybe last week or two weeks ago or something, he sent around a video clip to me and several of his other friends. I gave him a hard time about putting me on a bulk email list and didn't think too much of it. Then, the other day, he sends me another clip--this time just to me. It's a very disturbing video illustrated in stick figures narrating the story of a marital relationship, from the standpoint of a woman. The video is called "I Guess You'll Do," which pretty much tells you everything you need to know about the video.

I honestly found the video kind of appalling. The woman, after acknowledging that she and the man in question come from similar socioeconomic backgrounds and are equally attractive, dates, shags, moves in with, and eventually marries said male romantic lead (such as he is--stick figure and everything). It struck me as a little misogynistic--the engagement lasts for a year and a half so that she can be the center of attention and draw it out as long as possible, and she has no aspirations to travel, educate herself, or think interesting thoughts--she just wants to be skinnier than her bridesmaids in her wedding dress.

And I get that this was a 5 minute short that was drawn out of stick figures, but for some reason, this movie really FREAKED ME OUT. I guess it's the whole anti-commitment combined with fear of mediocrity in my life, and oh yeah, this video was sent to me by a man who I just dated, who coincidentally, also just got a divorce (and yeah, bitter much?). He told me later that he had actually sent it out to several people and just had sent me my own copy to avoid getting flack about a group email, but that didn't mollify me much. At some point, I think it would be really great if he remembered that whatever our relationship is now (and I really don't know what it is), we met at a speed dating event. We dated for a month. He dumped me. It's not appropriate to send me videos about marriage. Or, by the way, to complain about how little action you're getting--also annoying. There are lines. And lines of lines.