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Remember how you said your parents use you to get back at each other? Wouldn't I be outstanding in that capacity?
— Bender · The Breakfast Club
Behind the line May contain spoilers.
Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The speaker recalls being told about parents using their child against each other, then offers to excel in that same role. The question sounds like a confident application for an undesirable job. Its comic sting comes from treating a painful family pattern as an opportunity to be useful.
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