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Jan. 29th, 2008 10:37 pmScott and I are watching Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix right now. I'm trying not to flee. I'm quite certain that my failure to finish reading that book hinges heavily on Dolores Umbridge. Her personality and behavior literally make me shake with rage. I know that she's fictional, and I know that she serves a specific purpose in the story, but my very visceral response to her has nothing to do with the story or her role in it.
Hypocritical abuse of power is something that I simply can't deal with reading about or watching because it makes me both feel helpless and want to kill things. Neither is very helpful for my general anxiety levels or physical health. If I really thought that people like that, that abuses like that, occurred only in fiction, I think that my reaction would be milder, but I know that there are people like that and that they hurt others very profoundly.
Gah. How do other people deal with bashing into a literary wall like that?
Hypocritical abuse of power is something that I simply can't deal with reading about or watching because it makes me both feel helpless and want to kill things. Neither is very helpful for my general anxiety levels or physical health. If I really thought that people like that, that abuses like that, occurred only in fiction, I think that my reaction would be milder, but I know that there are people like that and that they hurt others very profoundly.
Gah. How do other people deal with bashing into a literary wall like that?
