Saturday, January 23, 2016

The Invisible Woman


I received a giftcard for Netflix at Christmas time and eventually I got myself all hooked up (don’t ask).  I began watching “Grace & Frankie” which is an original Netflix series with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin.  I was quite surprised by the premise of the show and the humour may be a little dark but the third episode had me in stitches.  Both Grace and Frankie were in crisis and decided they wanted to smoke a cigarette so they went to the store to buy a packet.  They stood at the counter, waiting and waiting to get attention but to no avail.  They ended up having a meltdown when they kept being ignored before they left the store.  And there in the car Frankie opened a pack of cigarettes and lit it.  Grace asks “what, did you steal them?” and Frankie’s response was priceless “well, if we are invisible they can’t catch us”.
My readers may remember that I had written a blog a couple of years ago about how middle aged women are invisible, certainly not an original thought but it is funny when you see it caught on film.  Which brings me to the “scandal” of Amy Schumer being accused of stealing material from other comedians.  I saw a couple of the clips and honestly I didn’t think it was stealing.   Those comments have been spoken by women since time indefinite (putting down men in one way or another).  Whether Amy did or not is neither here nor there for me; I just want to say that many of us will have similar thoughts (even word for word) on a wide range of topics.  It’s called the human experience because as you can tell from my blog there are only so many things we can talk about.
Of course, there are many subjects that I don’t write about because I don’t want to go to jail (okay, this is tongue in cheek, folks).  Also, while I have opinions on almost everything I know that I am not an expert on most of those topics so who am I to beak off about spanking or skeet shooting?  I think people need to lighten up because let’s face it, no one really sees or hears you until money is involved!

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