I used to think I was just too young to understand how old men chasing other old men dressed in drag was funny. Now I realize that I’m just too American. I’ve been loving the original BBC “The Office”, but I sense that there is a culture gap that doesn’t cross the pond. Their notions of what is acceptable and what is offensive seem to spin so arbitrarily on a dime. A woman gets a black leather corset and a vibrator from her work friends for her birthday, and that’s fine; but when someone makes a sexual advance on her in public, everyone is agast.
And despite the fact that the British think they invented the word irony, they don’t find it at all amusing when their boss makes a fool of himself doing a ridiculous robot dance.
It’s also amazing to see what they get away with over there. American TV is like the Teletubbies compared to this stuff. But then again, I think American workplaces must be far more prude as well. Or this could be like how thought that “high school parties” only happened in John Hughes movies. They’re going to make me one of those space suits soon so I can leave the bubble.
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