{"id":8572,"date":"2012-02-29T01:50:39","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T09:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godammit.com\/?p=8572"},"modified":"2012-02-29T01:50:39","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T09:50:39","slug":"academy-awards-2012-exegesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/academy-awards-2012-exegesis\/","title":{"rendered":"Academy Awards 2012 Exegesis"},"content":{"rendered":"

As far as I’m concerned, the whole event was about Angelina’s leg.<\/p>\n

When I saw the picture above, soon after the show ended, I was flabbergasted. It never occurred to me that it was a photoshopped joke. What an awful pose, I thought. I showed it to my husband, who said “So what, she’s just playing around.”<\/p>\n

Somehow, I couldn’t imagine Angelina playing around on the red carpet, but why else would she want to pose like a frog?<\/p>\n

By tonight, I had seen fifty thousand visual jokes about Angie’s leg, including a raw chicken and a Darth Vader. Everyone was having fun with Angie’s leg! The world was united in taking pleasure in her stupidity The internet was buzzing with jokes about jokes about Angie’s leg.<\/p>\n

I remarked to my husband, “Wow, just think: with one stupid gesture, Angelina Jolie<\/strong> has totally fucked herself up.” He replied, “I disagree.”<\/p>\n

Now, if you’re anything like me, and you certainly are, you cannot just let that go. A disagreement based on nothing has to be questioned, especially when it’s so blatantly wrong.<\/p>\n

I tried again. “But the whole world is making fun of her! She used to have this mystique, people admired her, and now she’s a laughing stock.” He repeated in an irritated voice, “I said I disagree.”<\/p>\n

So, I’m thinking, what is your evidence for disagreeing? Did you take a poll? Have you read several news reports, defending her honor and\/or dignity? Do you think I’m lying?<\/p>\n

I sputtered something about, Try googling the words “Angelina’s leg.” I told him that if he’d actually seen her on the stage, making that ridiculous gesture, he’d understand. He backed down but still withheld agreement.<\/p>\n

Why are husbands like this? Is every day Opposite Day? Does it make them feel dominant to disagree? Is agreement some kind of castration thing? Years ago, my husband would defend some idea with the phrase “Most people blah blah blah.” After a few hundred times, I started to yell, “Oh yeah, which people? NAME THEM!” He has since dropped that gambit.<\/p>\n

But I still rise to the bait of “I disagree.” It is infuriating, particularly in the context of no prior information to arrive at a position of disagreement. How should I handle this? Should I just say “Of course you disagree!?” I need a strategy.<\/p>\n

Back to Angelina’s fucking leg: Do you feel sorry her? Or does she deserve it? Or, if you’re somebody’s husband, would you just like to disagree?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"