Samantha Rinne
Resident Genderfluid Writer/Artist
I'm watching the Korean drama My Shy Boss, and I got me thinking.
In the show, the girl wants to literally ruin her boss because she blames him for her sister's suicide. In the office, because he is aloof, they think he's some scary dude. It doesn't help that he has social avoidance to such an advanced degree that neither the office cleaner nor his own secretary have seen him, nor that his secretary is so frightened of him that when he offers her a meal she says she's already eaten (she collapses from hunger at one point, causing an abuse scandal), and to make matters worse he brings in mysterious sacks the size of humans and has a large collection of knives (he's actually into cooking, but it's a running joke of the series that he's a psychopath). What causes all of this misunderstanding is that he's actually paralyzed socially, and has extreme stage fright. That and his "best friend" initially seems to be covering for him, but then explains to literally nobody working there that the boss is simply shy.
Likewise, I heard in another thread someone say they don't like God much, because he seems like a tyrant. But does God actually do too much? Or is the real problem that:
In the show, the girl wants to literally ruin her boss because she blames him for her sister's suicide. In the office, because he is aloof, they think he's some scary dude. It doesn't help that he has social avoidance to such an advanced degree that neither the office cleaner nor his own secretary have seen him, nor that his secretary is so frightened of him that when he offers her a meal she says she's already eaten (she collapses from hunger at one point, causing an abuse scandal), and to make matters worse he brings in mysterious sacks the size of humans and has a large collection of knives (he's actually into cooking, but it's a running joke of the series that he's a psychopath). What causes all of this misunderstanding is that he's actually paralyzed socially, and has extreme stage fright. That and his "best friend" initially seems to be covering for him, but then explains to literally nobody working there that the boss is simply shy.
Likewise, I heard in another thread someone say they don't like God much, because he seems like a tyrant. But does God actually do too much? Or is the real problem that:
- He/She has a scary image
- God doesn't communicate well and as a result seems to be angry all the time
- And God actually has too little contact with humans, bordering on neglect
- That we don't typically see God, so we come up with all sorts of theories
- He even has a second-in-command (Satan) who doesn't bother to explain if this is the case