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“I think Mrs. Bennet, especially as played by Brenda Blethyn is played very seriously. She got very angry with an interviewer, and I’ve never seen Brenda get angry. It was a press conference in a hotel, and this interviewer starts kind of patronizing Mrs. Bennet—not Brenda—but Mrs. Bennet. So Brenda got very angry and said, “I don’t give a shit about your ideas of Mrs. Bennet, I think she’s the only one that takes the situation seriously. She’s the only one trying to help her family and I think she’s doing it because she loves her daughters so much.”
I’ve only been back in my town for one day and I’m ready to hop on a plane to anywhere-but-fucking-here-vale.
I’ve stepped out of the conversation, but that doesn’t mean I’m not still fuming.
edit: I recognize my ability to step out of this conversation is a small part of my privilege as a white person. My frustration is nothing compared to the fear and violence black people face every day and I only hope that my comment has done SOMETHING. I just know that this conversation is going to go nowhere with these people and I can’t keep fighting them tonight.
Mr. Rogers is a perfect example of doing something small and easy to accommodate those with a disability or making someone more comfortable that makes all the difference to them