The Forked Tongue Revisited: A handbook for treating people badly by Flagg

Author:Flagg [Flagg]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Publisher: Imposing Content
Published: 2015-05-22T04:30:00+00:00

Do animals get a vote?

Do animals eat at the same table?

Do they automatically get a bed, or sleep with their owner?

Are they peers?

These things were established effortlessly from the beginning, because her sense of self in relation to me was not set as that of an equal. It was that of my Animal. Her self-esteem and sense of self to the rest of the world was untouched if not enhanced; there was only one person she was ever obliged to take shit from, and she was his animal. The rest of the world had best step aside. (I like when what is on my leash has sharp teeth – and she does, in spades. It’s a useful trait and an admirable quality no matter what side of the leash you are on. I’d rather have an attack dog than a poodle any day.)

I addressed her only as “animal”. To call her by her given name would have been (and once was) a crushing, savage blow. I reinforced the idea of what was expected of a good animal at every opportunity, creating an axis of success and failure based on the identity, reshaping her in many ways to meet my expectations. It was not a complete brainwash by any means; there were many core values I could never change – but I could often fit those values into the Animal/Owner relationship, absorbing what I could not alter. She is Animal to me to this day, and no matter how our relationship continues to evolve, I suspect that will never change.

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