Mama bears, papa wolves
May. 11th, 2022 08:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
breakinglight11[Doctor Strange spoilers]
So recently I had a mother of a student basically try to wreck my career— not because I did anything wrong (I personally never did anything but try to help her child) but because her kid was extremely mentally ill and whose life was falling apart, and it seemed to her the most expedient way to help the kid. The kid had failed to meet all of the (many) chances I had given her to complete all her work, and I gave her an F. So the mother came after me to my superiors. But despite some fairly cruel and shockingly personal attacks from a person who’d never met me, I wasn’t the point— the desperation to help her extremely sick child was.
It upset of me, of course, and in private I vented a lot of feelings about it. And I think it was definitely wrong of her. But I also tried to remember… she is a mother desperate to protect her child. It doesn’t make it right, but to her, if burning some stranger was the way to save the kid, what else was she supposed to do?
I think a lot of parents see themselves as protectors and advocates and mama bears and papa wolves when they fight for their kids, when from the perspectives of the people they go up they may come off… differently.
So I’m a bit surprised at how many people think Wanda was just depicted as “crazy” in the new Doctor Strange movie.
So recently I had a mother of a student basically try to wreck my career— not because I did anything wrong (I personally never did anything but try to help her child) but because her kid was extremely mentally ill and whose life was falling apart, and it seemed to her the most expedient way to help the kid. The kid had failed to meet all of the (many) chances I had given her to complete all her work, and I gave her an F. So the mother came after me to my superiors. But despite some fairly cruel and shockingly personal attacks from a person who’d never met me, I wasn’t the point— the desperation to help her extremely sick child was.
It upset of me, of course, and in private I vented a lot of feelings about it. And I think it was definitely wrong of her. But I also tried to remember… she is a mother desperate to protect her child. It doesn’t make it right, but to her, if burning some stranger was the way to save the kid, what else was she supposed to do?
I think a lot of parents see themselves as protectors and advocates and mama bears and papa wolves when they fight for their kids, when from the perspectives of the people they go up they may come off… differently.
So I’m a bit surprised at how many people think Wanda was just depicted as “crazy” in the new Doctor Strange movie.
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