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Unasseptable and everythinK



I wonder why there aren't threads about Jo's odd speaking habits. She is clearly reacting wrong, when a girl is actually CORRECTING her speech, as if she doesn't even notice or listen to WHAT the girl is saying (only her TONE of voice).

I think that episode was in the first season, the terrible, violent brat-girl, who was put in "reflection room" instead of "naughty room" (the only episode so far that had such a drastic name change - it's usually almost always 'naughty' something). She correctly corrects Jo, saying "aCCeptable!", whenever Jo says "asseptable".

She almost always also says "everythink" instead of "everything" - does she have a speech impediment, is it part of some UK slang, or why would she, in front of television cameras, repeatedly butcher the english language so much? She doesn't even seem to be stupid - I mean, you can even see there is intelligence going on in her head.

She could of course be just a hired actor, who simply has an enormous group of child psychologists and resources behind her, and who simply acts as the 'face' of the whole organization (or whatnot), but it's amazing that no one has ever mentioned that to her or corrected her about it (except the kid).

Otherwise, this is a pretty interesting and inspiring show. The parents are infuriatingly stupid, childish, selfish, ignorant, clueless and irresponsible (bringing children to _THIS_ kind of a world is already a sign of all these things), but it's always satisfying to see that things are put right in the end.

This show has less misandry than one would have thought, though the typical attitude that a man has to first work outside the house (missing his family, being basically a prisoner of the corporate world so the family can have free time and resources) for 8-10 hours, and THEN he has to come home, and WORK SOME MORE.

So the man has TWO jobs - outside the house, and when he comes back in the house. The woman only has ONE job, inside the house. Is that fair? According to misandry and this show, it is.

But I don't see Jo advising the wife to go to dad's workplace to help HIM with his outside-the-home-work!

So there is no balance here. Oddly there aren't pretty much _ANY_ working women and stay-at-home-dads, or 'house husbands'.. is this intentional, or does it tell something about women's hypergamy and need to have a man who works (despite everything feminism has brainwashed people to believe), or did they just not want to have a situation, where the genders were reversed..

.. because that would have meant that a WOMAN would then have been told by Jo to also work at home, AFTER having worked at the office for 10 hours!

I wonder.

In any case, a great show, very inspiring stuff, and it's interesting to actually see a woman making some sense when she speaks - a rare thing in life. Her advice is really good, and I can understand why it works.

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