So Many Fuckupperies

I am shocked to know that such fuckupperies do exist in this world. They're VERY real. Morgan Spurlock's docuseries, provocatively titled 7 Deadly Sins and puts Spurlock, the em-cee, in the position of Devil himself.

This docuseries consists of seven episodes, each titled with I don't need to tell you because it is so damn obvious. I've watched five episodes; Envy, Gluttony, Wrath, Lust, and Pride. Each contains a story with an odd magnitude so great. But you know what? Each narrator relates their stories as if it's as ordinary as going shopping to supermarkets, for example.

This docuseries really makes me questioning what is normal? What is, you know, good? Are both just consensus that can change depend on the number of people who agree to that convention? Or are both something that must be decided according to Scriptures, Koran, any holy religious books? Then how is it for atheists?

The thing is, for some cases, I can, honestly I can, totally relate and understand. I'll outline each episodes I've watched below.

1. Envy

The three stories are: a family who specializes in making femme skins - bodysuits made of silicone specially designed with female anatomy and face; a healthy male with a tendency to identify himself as a wheelbound person. Truth is, I pity them. Those men feel comfortable living in female skin. I think, wanting something that harmless is not bad. Again, I think. Although the female mask is scary. It looks like someone skinned a woman then wear the skin.

Do you see what I mean? And the healthy guy? It hurts seeing his confessions. He seems so frank, a bit sad, and a bit defensive. It is condemnable if he does it to get sympathies, but he doesn't! He just feels that he should use wheelchair. And it is so, so, so, sad. It's a good thing he hasn't done anything drastic/ irreversible such as amputating his legs, for example. The other case is about a woman who creates life-like baby dolls. The customers are mothers or women who want baby that 1.) are eternally babies, 2.) are not screaming and pooping and kicking but still insanely cute and 3.) can be dressed. Um. That is certainly something unhealthy. You know what's heartbreaking? When one little boy keeps complaining to his mom that he's tired/ hungry while his mom busy browsing the clothes for the makebelieve baby. And his mom totally ignores him. The juxtaposition of the little boy, cheeks tear stained, between his mom and another woman with the same interest, is so soul crushing.

That sure is a helluva sick scene. The message that dead baby dolls are of bigger importance than the little boy will sure do wonders to his mentality.

2. Gluttony A man opens a restaurant named Heart Attack Grill. The menus are informatively named Single, Double, and Triple Bypass with Triple Bypass contains more than 9000 calories. And yet people flock to that restaurant to gobble a serving per people, each! Humans. Never cease to amaze me. No wonder we have problem with obesity, malnutrition, and starvation. Those who are rich choose to indulge without considering the starving ones. I can kind of understand the motive of the guy who owns the restaurant. He used to have a gym. But the gym's name was similar to a burger chain. The burger chain sued - in a difficult time when the owner's wife was pregnant, his daughters were toddlers, the family wasn't really financially sound. And during that difficult times, the guy decided to study the burger chain's business model. Then he decided to open one of his own, capitalizing on people's greed. He reasons, it would be easy to make people do something that they like. It is easier to seduce people with unhealthy, delicious food than trying to make them exercise, exercise. And he doesn't care whether he is cast as a villain, in fact, he encourages people to. I don't know, maybe he hopes to preach the values he used to preach by showing them, "Hey, my spokesperson died of clogged arteries! Someone - two people, in fact - were collapsed here from heart attack!" but get the opposite result instead. In his restaurant, the waitresses are women clad in nurse uniform. The kind that kinky nurses wear. And the guy plans to employ his daughter in the same position. To make you fathom the grossness degree, one of the things the nurses obliged to do is spanking the customer that cannot finish his/ her meal. What kind of father wanting his own flesh-and-blood doing that? That's borderline creepy. I cannot understand his reasoning, this time. Next, we are shown a morbidly obese woman. She is overweight in a way that is no way healthy. And she is okay with that! Proud, even.

Please tell me you're kidding

I am all against people with unhealthy body images. People mostly highlights the ones who are anorexic and bulimic - the ones who feel comfortable when their BMIs are far, far, far below what is required for a body to function well. They overlook the other end of spectrum. They avoid saying that word. Why are we okay with calling the anorexic, bulimic people out and not okay with saying 'fat', 'obese'? Because some does! And this lady. She has a boyfriend who encourages her unhealthy urges! "Some kind of personal trainer who yells you can do it," she says. That. Is. Not. Healthy! If he really loves her, then he should worry about her well-being and ask her to see a physician! The last segment is a manufacturer of plus-sized coffins. I am okay with that, because, well, there's indeed a market for that. The sad thing is the realization that yes, we've come to that point. That's so mindbogglingly dreadful it makes me want to weep.

3. Wrath The first segment is about a lady, who was cuckolded, and decided to make a website where people can post their stories of betrayal and the third person involved. All deets, including the photo of the third woman (in most cases, they're women). It has the potential to be misused, for example if someone hates someone really profoundly he/ she decides to spread a lie that can be publicly accessed and ruin the innocent's life forever, since this is Information Age where everyone, everywhere who has Internet access can find any information they desire. But I understand her reason, and I think it's better than some destructive things those scorned people are capable of doing. The rage and pain from seeing your mate, your love, the person you used to trust the most misuse that trust can be so big it's unfathomable and corrosive. I think, a website as an outlet for that, is alright. Then, a fight club. Again, an outlet for stress where all participants are willing adults, presumably with insurances. とても大丈夫！They have their limitations and they obviously know what they are going to face. Seeing nothing wrong here, actually. Lastly, a construction of a really destructive bullet. I honestly think that it shouldn't be constructed. Too lethal. Too punishing. I think currently existing bullets are sufficient.

4. Lust A thirty-something man confesses that he prefers older women. Much older woman. As old as sextagenarian, nonagenarian, even. Okay. That's a bit odd and his mother can kiss the hope of holding a grandkid goodbye. And perhaps his partners' (yes, he is currently involved with more than one woman) kids would oppose or get freaked out. Those are normal response. In this case, I understand him, and I mean, it's not like he harms anyone. That is a relationship between two consenting adults, so... be it. The thing that grosses me out is the fact that those elders are still sexually active. I mean. Gaaaaahhhh! But overall, it is not something that bad. Next: a preacher that represents brothel. Now that's abnormal! He interprets the famous Mary-Magdalene-almost-get-stoned really differently. He said that when Jesus said to Mary Magdalene (actually, the woman's name is NEVER mentioned in that particular biblical passage, we actually don't know for certain whether she's Mary Magdalene), "And sin no more," Jesus means that Mary should stop considering prostitution as a sin. This preacher also supports men going to brothels. He says that it saves marriages. I disagree. When you marry, I think that you agree to be sexually exclusive to your partner and vice versa. And marriage is comprised of so many aspects that one aspect should not dominate more. If you have problem with one of the aspect, you should solve it together. That's why you marry. To share happiness and burden with someone else and, in return, sharing his happiness and burden as well. Again, I think. I've never been in any serious relationship and am still quite innocent, so take my words with a grain of salt. Some prostitutes shown are revealed to having spouses and kids. Maaaan. What would her (yes, the prostitutes in this case are exclusively of female persuasion) kids think, seeing their mother talking like that? If she were my mother, I'll be crushed by humiliation. So. Okay with prostitution localization (brothels). Not okay with husbands go to those places. The last, but not least: sugar babies and sugar daddies. The idea is to create a website where girls (mostly girls) in need of money meet the sugar daddies in need of whatever the sugar babies can provide. As a struggling college girl, I honestly can relate - honest. It's not that college girls are lazy. It's not that we are seeking the easy way out. IT IS NOT! IT IS SIMPLY THERE IS NO OPPORTUNITY TO GET WHAT WE WANT, WHAT WE NEED, ALTHOUGH WE ARE READY TO SACRIFICE OUR ENERGY, OUR TIME, GIVE OUR DEDICATION. It's just most of the time, all doors are closed. And this opportunity looks like a door! Are those girls whores? Maybe. I don't really care. Even whores work. They need to make their clients comfortable. They need to have a great social skill. Are they golddiggers? My definition of golddiggers have been formed via books that say if someone marry someone rich and so old and decrepit to get his/ her hands on the spouses' riches as soon as he/ she exhales his/ her last breath (okay, this gender thingy is ANNOYING, I shall use anything I like, here goes), then she's a golddigger. The old and decrepit party must believe that their union is out of lustful love purely, not material love. The arrangements the sugar babies and sugar daddies have is, well, very similar. But both parties are aware from the start that it is about 'giving and taking'. So. Yes. The sugar babies are golddiggers. But so what? Duh. Life is hard. If that makes me morally defective, so be it. I might be, at that. These days, I think the line defining halal and haram ways of sustaining your living gets more blurred. The important thing is making sure the way you make your living is the way that invites the least gossip. I think! I am not sugar baby. I don't think I'll ever be. I might not be able to stay sane hearing the gossips and I pity my mother. The last segment is about an artist who makes dildo based on a lot of things. Horse genitalia. Elephant trunks. What-e-veeeer. Dude must make a living, there's market, dude has ability, dude offers it, then so freaking what?

5. Pride Wow. O-cups are a REAL thing. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. And this woman refuses to get rid of them even though they threaten her life. Literally. Well, seeing how she gets her reputation and position as porn star thanks to her boobs, I can quite understand her decision to die rather than keep on living without her reputation. If you've found your calling, what's life without it? It is just a hollow shell and anyone will gladly embrace death. What is so macabre, what is so scary about death? Our current population is around 7 billion. Among those, there are only so few irreplaceable - and we should not feel bad about it. In Bible, among the Israelites, there are only so many recorded. They only had one Moses. One Aaron. One Mary. One David. One Solomon. The amount of irreplaceable people is fixed, because, you cannot make everybody becomes David, for example. For some people, they totally can be replaced, for example, me. I am not special. Were I pass away, it would make some people sad, and that's all. Exactly zero fuss. Pretty sure you can find someone similar with me among those 7 billions. It is unlike seeking needle in a haystack - more like seeking wheat ear in a haystack. Should be easy-peasy-pea. The next is a female bodybuilder. I must admit that I admire her drive and tenacity, as well as her ability to totally ignore other people's stares and judgments. I cannot sympathize with her though because she complained that she wants someone that can admire all the work and effort she had put in but then she said that she's very focused on what she is doing and therefore, cannot really spare her attention for anything/ anybody else. Weeeellll, woman. If you cannot spare your attention for anybody else, don't expect anybody will spare any for you, then.

The last segment is about cryopreservation. WHOA. There are really the ones with confidence that HUGE. They honestly think that they are unique enough to be resurrected, thus free to populate this crowded world and further deplete its resources. But, anything that floats your boat!

So. After watching those episodes, I sincerely wished that some are fictitious, exaggerated, and reenacted by, you know, actresses and actors. TURNS OUT NO. OH MY DEAR GOD. All is very real, as real as me, as real as you, dear reader. During watching them, I tried so hard not to judge, but failed, since some of those stories are so skewed they should not be happened in the first place. From the outline I wrote above, I guess you can infer my thoughts on some. Watching this is like put your morality side by side with some flitting stories in this docuseries and compare, compare, compare them in front of mirror. Then you're horrified. Then you become full of questions. The guy behind this, Morgan Spurlock, had previously been involved in a controversial project, Supersize Me. The topic is equally attractive and interesting to delve. I personally think that his decision to brand this docuseries as 7 Deadly Sins is a tad too judgmental. Are those really sins? Are they? Why judge? Or the fact that I am questioning this, the fact that I contemplate whether they truly are sins making me morally defective and faithless? Or does it establish that I am a thinking creature?

cogito ergo sum

-René Descartes-

One inaccuracy: the golddigger dating service should be in the Greed segment. Apologies.

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