Pounding The Keyboard

  “Don thnk I’ll stop, Baby Reindeer…”        A mentally-ill woman stalking a mentally-disturbed man.      That’s the premise of Netflix’s new hit limited series, Baby Reindeer , which I’ve just finished watching. It has seven episodes. The show is based on the show’s main actor’s real-life experiences, who was stalked and harassed by a woman much older than him, almost double his age. The female stalker in the series is a former lawyer and has been jailed for stalking and harassing other people, while the stalkee is a bartender and a struggling comedian who hides something dark and traumatic in his past.      It’s a painful and difficult watch so I wouldn’t recommend it; I didn’t really like it, it’s just that I have this sense of duty of finishing everything I’ve started. Lol.   The main character’s bad decision after bad decision (I told you he’s disturbed) would stress and exasperate you.  ...

           A wise and experienced old man once lectured that if a woman wanted to attract and seduce a man, she would show him her cleavage. Yes, that enchanting, exciting, exhilarating, exhausting, enticing, exasperating little space (a line almost) between a woman’s breasts whenever they wear clothes that have low-cut neckline.      A cleavage, according to this sage of a man, is a talisman, an amulet, that women wear to charm the man they like. Open your social media, and the moment you find a woman that shows her cleavage in her photos is the moment that you find a woman that is trying to seduce and lead a man into her web.      Charles thought it was sexist, and a bit perverse, yes, and this old man could be wrong and a bit senile, but he is ninety-six years old and had fifteen wives, and his last, whenever she's in the mall, buys nothing but clothes with low-cut neckline.   ...