I’m sadly no longer watching Coronation Street full time, because Hulu stopped carrying it. But I step back into Weatherford here and there, such as when having extra digital credits from Amazon or Cyber Monday sales makes temporarily subscribing to BritBox a good deal.
Anyway… I’ve been catching up by watching sporadic episodes from the last few months.
One storyline has Bethany (Lucy Fallon) hospitalized with a stoma bag situation, because her discounted liposuction in Turkey went very wrong.
Her Uncle David (Jack P Shepherd) confesses he might be partly to blame. Bethany had mentioned to him that she was researching Liposuction for a story… and, I guess, seemed intrigued by it on a personal level.
David had made a joke along the lines of her having extreme love handle issues.
Even though she didn’t. And David didn't think she did. He was just trying to be funny, not realizing she had body image issues.
The drama reminded me of times that men in my family have made little jokes/comments that crushed my self-esteem.
It could be that they actually wanted to lower my self-esteem… take away some of my power to make themselves more powerful.
But it could have also been that they were totally joking and wrongly believed I had a ton of confidence about the issue and would have taken it in stride.
I also worry that I may have jokingly-insulted people, at points in my life, believing that they had self-confidence about the issue and therefore would be amused rather than wounded.
I don’t want to preach that we should stop joking and teasing.
Maybe we just need to be more mindful…
Maybe clarify we’re joking… if we suspect the joke wasn’t received in the way we intended.
And....
Maybe if we tend to roast someone in most of our interactions, we need to surprise them with a compliment here and there.
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