Oh.
For.
Fuck's.
Sake.
That was physically painful to watch, really distressing. Forget Myra Hindley, this was Kathy-Bates-in-Misery crossed with Jeffrey Fucking Dahmer. Short of actually hamstringing Anthony or attempting a burrhole-plus-acid home lobotomy, I'm not sure Craig's behaviour could've been more inappropriate. The man was pissed. He needed to a) get to the toilet when he felt like puking (this might've avoided barfy carpet), and b) subsequently lie down somewhere quiet, with a basin beside the bed and a glass of water to hand.
Craig seemed adept at simultaneously spinning a Craig-centred drama from a non-crisis and establishing, when Anthony said he wanted to see a doctor, that it was enough of a non-crisis not to need medical attention. It did, however, require Craig's pawing, groping 'cuddles' until Anthony had nothing left to vomit up. Did Craig actually carry out his threat to 'shower' Anthony? By that stage, it was veering dangerously close to non-consensual assault...
As well as the inappropriate touching/groping (even when Anthony clearly articulated his wish that Craig leave him alone), I was disturbed by the degree of emotional manipulation going on - the "oh, look what you've done now, you're sitting in your own sick" (and if, as appeared to be the case, Craig prevented Anthony from getting to the toilet, he's at least partly responsible for Anthony's humiliatingly public hughie). Utterly vile, reprehensible behaviour, on a par with stopping a child accessing the toilet then punishing them for crapping themselves.
Ugh. And the worst of it is, Craig will subsequently reconfigure the twisted debacle so he was Anthony's saviour, his Only Friend In The House.
Get him out. |
