A Weak Dependent Woman Who Needs Her Man

Being a nurse doesn’t just entail medical knowledge. Being a nurse involves intrapersonal skills.

When I trained as a CNA and was doing clinicals (hands on patient care in a nursing home) (before covid) we were not allowed to put masks on to do things that didn’t require ppe. Not because they wanted to keep us from protecting ourselves, because masks scare patients into thinking there’s something much worse wrong. We also weren’t allowed to react to smells (though we were allowed to put scented oil or vicks under our noses if we struggled with a smell, we just couldn’t be obvious about it), icky wounds or sores, or any other inevitable consequences of having a body that needs medical care. Because that makes the patient feel bad. Because that makes the patient feel less than human.

A nurse’s job is to care for a human in every sense, and that includes making them feel human and to minimize making that person feel like a burden as much as possible.

Anya fails MISERABLY at her interpersonal duties as a nurse. She treats her patient as a thing, a burden, a horror.

It’s part OF the horror, how badly she and the others fail to care about curly as a human being.

It mirrors how disabled folks are treated irl. Curly is sequestered in the medical, alone, helpless, immobilized with pain, poorly cared for (you cannot tell me they stocked the ship with five years of rations but didn’t stock the medical with enough bandages to do wound care and basic pain reduction for months for each person on board at LEAST, not to mention he should be receiving IV fluid and liquid nutrition, eyedrops, his mouth should be wetted periodically, and he should be kept much warmer). And all of that IS Anya’s fault - regardless of her personal issues, if she is unable to care for a patient it is her JOB to teach someone else to do his care and ensure that care is being done. She does none of that.

oh, forgive me lord, oh, a minor chord

version without all the red under the cut!

I think they once said that when they were designing him, they wanted him to look like a regular guy. Plus I think they also said that you’re suppose to relate to Jimmy in some aspects. You don’t have to commit a bunch of unforgivable crimes to relate to him; you can relate to him because he’s a human being just like you and like you said, anyone can become like him.

I don’t know how people reached to the conclusion that he’s an irredeemable monster that lacks guilt and empathy after seeing the scene where he apologizes to Curly and the last scene of the game( the two scenes that break my heart).