#dad shit

I like when John Walker hits Bob's father with his taco shield. Just in general it is always fun when abusers get hit in movies. (Just rewatched To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar. Patrick Swayze is so good.)

But also because earlier in the movie, Walker was calling Bob "Bobby" and denegrating him, which fed Bob's self doubts. He was kind of an echo of Bob's dad, whose name I don't know and don't care to know. With the hit, he disavows all those meaner things he said earlier.

We also know that Walker isn't the best dad himself. He ignores his kid. But it's like, "Hey, guy. I am a shitty parent but I am not as shitty as you." BANG. And maybe that is good for John to know that he can do better than that guy. Even Alexei is reconciled with Yelena and he thought it was a good idea for her to go to the Red Room. Failing once doesn't mean you will fail all the time. There's... hope.

And it is satisfying to me because, though we don't know much about the dad, a macho football-playing soldier is probably the kind of guy Bob's father would've respected. The kind of son he would've wanted, not sensitive, bipolar Bob. But even John, who I don't like personally, knows Bob's dad sucks.

Please and thanks

MM with a male S/O who is Dad

(Like legit Dad)

Alcina did not approve.

This MAN-THING was treating her like a child

She wasn't Heisenberg

But slowly she accepted the man

He genuinely cared about the Four

Heisenberg was impressed! He liked having a "father-like figure" in his life

The man before him was old as dirt, he assumed

But the man took interest in his work!

AND WANTED TO HELP!!!

Though he kept his plans away from him

Moreau was more than excited to have a Father!

This man was kind and would fish with!

And sneak him the BEST cheeses

And Donna and Angie like to have him over and make dolls!

Well they make them, he just suggests stuff to add or dresses

Before meetings he'll stand around making dad jokes

All of them

Makes deez nuts jokes

Heisenberg wheezes at them

Alcina smiles and shakes her head

Angie joins in, Donna even laughs

And Moreau sits next to Father happy

Bruce doing dumb dad shit.

"Hey, I heard you wanted a donut, so I'm getting you a dozen donuts every week for the next 4 years, even though you really don't like donuts, you just had a craving for one for 5 seconds one day, and I won't stop until you tell me to stop and I'll be very sad when you do."

"Hey, I heard you had an Opinion about a Thing and I didn't have an opinion about this thing until now, but I've decided to have the opposite opinion about this thing."

"Hey, I know I've spent years funding and encouraging your knowledge, research, and education in this Very Specific Area in which you are now considered an Expert in your Field, and I asked you for Advice pertaining to your Area of Expertise, but I've decided to ignore it until the Thing gets worse, then ask someone else for Advice, get the same Advice you gave me weeks/months/years ago, but actually do it, and contribute my success to that other person's Advice for the rest of forever."

"Hey, I heard you were sad. I can beat them up for you? Oh, you feel like a failure and the thing that is making you sad is yourself?......... I can beat them up for you?"

Making his child(ren) the exception to everything, to the point of negativity. "Hey, I just got diagnosed with Thing You Have for which you take Medication... but I don't want to take medication, because that will mean I'm a quitter and a loser ... not that you're a quitter or a loser, just other people who rely on Medication to be functional members of society." OR "Hey, I hate millennials... except you... you don't count, I raised you right. So I hate millennials because they're too "woke" and keep doing Thing You Do."

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This was supposed to be a wholesome post about dumb dad shit Bruce should do and has turned into therapy??? Help???

Bruce: [asks Dick to load the dishwasher]... no, not like that. [Does it himself instead of teaching, gets mad at all of Dick's attempts in the future, making Dick unable to care for himself when he moves out]

I need to go lay down.

I moved out 5 years ago. What the fuck. What the actual fuck. What??

"Hey, I heard this activity makes you happy? Well this activity is Dumb and Childish and won't make you Money. [6 years later] Why do you only draw pictures/sew/create for your mom?"

he asks endless.  endless little questions about everything.  what's this?  what's that?  how does that work?  where did that come from?  like a precocious toddler.  he gets annoyed when i don't know the answers.  this ramps up my anxiety and inability to focus until i couldn't reliably answer what my own name is.

right now he expects me to help him shop for gifts for my mother, my husband and myself, and by help i mean do it for him, and make it a surprise.  (i have maybe finally figured out a way to sort of pick out my own present and still make it a surprise???)