Another confession I have, without going into details, I have addressed and asked several questions about a particularly unusual trope in CINEMA in Russian to my cousin in Russia, and at ONE point, I have LITERALLY devoted THE whole message questioning if in the opinion of my cousin, one scene from one movie actually WAS it. And...
Even though I am not TOO upset about it nor hold a grudge, and ultimately he understood later on what I meant...
Because of how some words in Russian sound SIMILAR and alike, whereas in the ENGLISH language they often sound different etc and have very specific meanings, my cousin MISTAKENLY assumed that I wanted to talk about female cruelty in GENERAL and he started going on about "the existence of mothers who abuse their children", which, thematically at least speaking, had nothing to do whatsoever WITH the topic that I was addressing.
But maybe he just didn't FEEL like talking about THOSE aspects in any way whatsoever, and kinda thought that maybe I ALSO wanted to talk about that aspect, and given his work as a psychologist in Russia, maybe he just wanted to generally also talk about the stuff that HE was dealing with.
And maybe he wasn't 100% sure about that movie scene EITHER and there wasn't anything too wrong about the fact that the whole "internet outrage" around it even if it was OR wasn't "that" didn't surprise or bother him too much either, so he didn't think "Oh well, let me research all the information around it, think about EXACTLY what you my cousin Alex is asking and I will get back to you personally and professionally in an engaging, thoughtful and understanding way and we'll sort it all out like that and I will explain to you if I thought that scene was it or not and how to EXACTLY react etc as a human being who is decent, kind and intelligent etc".
Point is - the common, mostly American but not limited to that, TREND in which ONLINE PEOPLE speak about that kind of stuff was NOT there, but maybe, like I say, it was
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TheMan18 (13055)
7 years ago
just because he DIDN'T FEEL TOO MUCH like talking to me about it, so he wasn't worried about trends and accuracies and whatnot like that, rather than him not knowing about it for reasons like, DEAR GOD, in "Russia and Soviet Union where he came from, UNLIKE America, they didn't talk or teach about ALL of THAT stuff".
Then again, we, in our family, rarely have ANY kinds of talks with regards to sexual issues of any kind, EVEN in fictional cinema, so what is the surprise concerning family MEMBERS that are RELATIVES that live in RUSSIA whereas WE, me, my mum, my dad and my brother, live in UK, even if yeah, perhaps, American mentalities and Russian ones do differ, AS DO, talks between family members and strangers (no offense) ONLINE in GENERAL?
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MissMargoChanning (6630)
7 years ago
I feel for your cousin! I had to read this twice, so please don't think that your long drawn out post and all of that typing was a waste of your time. I honestly gave it considerable attention.
I find this statement alone, quite interesting....
"Point is - the common, mostly American but not limited to that, TREND in which ONLINE PEOPLE speak about that kind of stuff was NOT there, but maybe, like I say, it was"
Man, I don't think you were cut out to be one of those "ONLINE PEOPLE" you speak of.....
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