It is sad that the only bit P is confident about doing well is the sex And - post-corpse - he's not even particularly confident about that. I may be being overly soft, but I find the “I won’t make a nuisance of myself” line on the second night in BH rather sad. The intended message of “If you’re not in the mood, what with the dead body, then no pressure” may be entirely reasonable, but the way of expressing it is a double-whammy of not quite being able to escape the double standard* and what it feels too extreme to call self-loathing, but is a sort of self-pointlessness, with the assumption that his own charms are no match for a corpse.
*Marvellously expressed by Frasier’s father in the sitcom: “Sex is a private thing between you and the person you’re doing it to.”
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Date: 2010-07-12 01:45 pm (UTC)And - post-corpse - he's not even particularly confident about that. I may be being overly soft, but I find the “I won’t make a nuisance of myself” line on the second night in BH rather sad. The intended message of “If you’re not in the mood, what with the dead body, then no pressure” may be entirely reasonable, but the way of expressing it is a double-whammy of not quite being able to escape the double standard* and what it feels too extreme to call self-loathing, but is a sort of self-pointlessness, with the assumption that his own charms are no match for a corpse.
*Marvellously expressed by Frasier’s father in the sitcom: “Sex is a private thing between you and the person you’re doing it to.”