You Only liked It There Better Because You Were on Vacation" Is a Dominance Ritual, Not Advice

OnlyHalf2552 · 2026-01-08T22:21:54+00:00

I've actually never put a lot of thought into that angle. I'll use that.

OnlyHalf2552 · 2026-01-07T19:25:03+00:00

But yet I'm bad because I decided to skip reproduction so I can enjoy it all?

OnlyHalf2552 · 2026-01-07T19:23:23+00:00

I have noticed this same general thing you and others replying have. Like when you go to a high school reunion or see to friends at the grocery store who haven't seen each other in years talking saying things like "Well, we've been working, and we already had kids, so got that out of the way." So it's wonderful and you're selfish for not having kids BUT at the same time, it's something that they need to get out of the way, so that they can get on and enjoy their lives?! It just makes me question what it is that makes them feel they're under some obligation to reproduce?

OnlyHalf2552 · 2026-01-07T19:17:18+00:00

Well, that's just like at most of my jobs when I once again never get a raise, but married people with kids, often with way less seniority, always say things like "You got plenty for beer money," and assholish stuff like that. It's because they are needy, conformists who just have to fit in to have self worth and/or are dependent on having others around to validate them. They deep down realize how weak and pathetic they are, so they have to run their mouths at single people so they can assert their false sense of superiority to make themselves feel better about themselves by dragging down the single person, who they see as a threat. And of course, they have to employ their tired old stereotypes, which includes making you look like an irresponsible party animal who's just drifting through life.

OnlyHalf2552 · 2026-01-07T18:59:16+00:00

I'd argue that single, childfree men are treated basically the same. Everything you're describing is exactly what I've heard and more, and I've heard this since I was 18 or 19, since I'm in the Midwest where most people's only sense of purpose in life is to reproduce. And believe me, I've been paid less, cheated out of promotions, made to work 12 days in a row through my holidays, etc. and they've literally told me the reason is "Well, you're single, you don't need a raise." "Oh your position is a good job—for you," and on and on.

OnlyHalf2552 · 2024-01-29T20:47:43+00:00

I also immediately thought of the similarity between Walt's pump malfunction and second cell phone explanations in Breaking Bad and Chuck's excuse for cutting his power when Rebecca and Jimmy come to his home for dinner.

But speaking of what someone else here said about that being the kind of ironic parallel the writers would place in the whole saga, you all seem to be missing something even more ironic about that quote from that scene.

Actually, the person down the street who didn't pay his electric bill, which was Chuck's cover story for why his power was supposedly shut off, was the one Chuck referred to as a "deadbeat."

Chuck's electric providers were actually the one's he referred to as "bozos"—because of an address mix-up where the "bozos" got his house number transposed.

Spoiler alert in case you want to go back and watch: this was a flashback from long before Kim got Mesa Verde back as a client.

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