I really hate the way she talks about pus and Ethan’s excitement about football. She could ask the who the players are that they’ve met. She could even Google them (like she claims to Google cast members of whatever she’s watching) so that she can say “wow that’s brilliant”, but she is so dismissive of something they obviously care about. You don’t have to personally like the same things, but when you’ve made your entire family live with your Disney ovsession, your seasonal OTT decorating for each holiday (all of which you never actually spend in your home), force them to film you making a twit of yourself for the internet, the very least you could do is show a bit of enthusiasm for their happiness
what's worse is that she will talk about football and ethan's excitement with such disdain, rolling her eyes because she finds football boring and it's all about
HER.
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yet the moment she gets approached to create an ad where she can use ethan's love of football or take advantage of their father/son bond attending villa matches together, she will fully exploit it to her benefit. she has undoubtedly forgotten that only last year, she shared an ad stating that erin was the football fan who loved watching and playing football with steve, while. ethan was obvs still the super sensitive and "different" little boy who hated everything even vaguely tereotypically boy-ish - yet suddenly, he's playing football, watching football, collecting football stickers etc and is a huge fan of the sport!
babs is secretly fuming that she can no longer play on the "ethan is so different and not a typical boy" claiming he's challenging gender boundaries by trying on erin's princess dress at the age of four - she won't support his interests and hobbies, just like how she refuses to take him to football or watch his matches because she doesn't want to stay up past her toddler bedtime or be forced to drag herself away from netflix - and will only show support when it suits
her. i fully predict a future advert where she is making full use of ethan's love of football - but while it doesn't benefit
her, she will remain dismissive and uninterested in ehr little boy, refusing to engage with his excitement and enthusiasm. she seems to truly resent any moment of happiness the poor boy experiences - and as for her previous bullshit about erin being an avid football fan, why isn't her daughter desperate to attend villa matches with steve? oh yeah, because it was a total lie, simply because babs wanted to feature the golden child in her father's day ad. she fails to realise how stupid she makes herself look with such a huge web of lies, so entangled that she regularly trips herself up with all her constant contradictions.
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