“Dear Sister” - Saturday Night Live (April 14th, 2007) “wow” - Barry (May 28, 2023)
Think you used enough dynamite there, Butch?
BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID 1969, dir. George Roy Hill
“In Jewish thought, a sin is not an offense against God, an act of disobedience. A sin is a missed opportunity to act humanly. The verb to sin in Hebrew is also used in the sense of ‘missing the target.’ When God created us free to choose between good and bad, He also gave us the capacity to know when we had chosen wrongly”
— Harold Kushner, To Life!: A Celebration of Jewish Being and Thinking
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Worst part about this is I've only ever used that yellow square emoji once and it was just to see how it looked. This isn't who I am. However, in retrospect, I suppose it is
Reading through the notes is a surreal experience please keep adding more to fuel my effervescent consumption of non descriptive emojis
Lenny + Midge + Parallels, Callbacks, & Foreshadowing (Seasons 1-5)
+Bonus
do we need to put "the male gaze" up on a shelf until tiktokkers learn what the fuck that actually means
you cannot "appease" or "repel" the male gaze unless you are a film director or artist because its a media criticism term. its about how the audience is meant to identify with a heterosexual (generally white) cis man and look at female characters as erotic objects. its not "what men find attractive"!!! and the female gaze is not "what women find attractive" especially since that is ALSO influenced by racist queerphobic patriarchal standards. if you wanna talk about the way women are expected to appeal themselves to men just talk about the (sexual) objectification of women. the expectation of servitude. but "male gaze" just gets reduced down to "what men find sexy" which completely ignores both the media criticism aspect and also places wayyy too much emphasis on "does this sexually appeal to any man ever?? if i wear a croptop am i appealing to the male gaze?????" instead of "hey why are we being expected to take the stance of a hypothetical heterosexual cis man attracted to this stereotyped woman-object, why is this the perspective we are told is natural and normal, why is this the lens we are told to see characters through"
"you're not man enough, not feminine enough"
so gender is something we can fail?
that means gender is not genetic and absolute and unchangeable
but something we can build and perform, and fail at (the standards they set) but also redefine?
if i can fail at being a woman, does that mean i'm not a woman? so does that make me another gender?
i agonized for 15 minutes about the wording of my post and you manage to simplify it with a perfect mean girls reference
[ID: tag by skyvoice:
insert regina george: so you agree? you think gender is a comstruct?
/end ID]
So while I was getting my haircut, the lady asked me if I had other plans for the day and I said:
“I’m just going to pick up the boy from daycare and then it’s date night.”
And the lady says “Oh! How old is he?”
“He’s three.”
“Mine too! Where are you registering him for kindergarten it’s such a hassle-”
And that’s when I realized I said “boy” and not “dog” because I always think of Charlie as “good boy” but this slip up has lead to a miscommunication.
The lady is now 6 minutes into a clearly needed rant about how unnecessarily complex shopping for schools is, esp when you have a neurodivergent child, so I can’t just tell her that Charlie is a dog because then she’ll feel awkward for unloading on me and she clearly has enough going on.
So the rest of the haircut became a game of “how much can I say about Charlie without revealing that he is not a human child?” And the answer is “enough to cover a half hour hair appointment, quite possibly several hours worth if I’m specific enough”
“is he very verbal?”
“It really depends on who he’s with. He’s very quiet at he but won’t shut up if he’s at the park or has a friend over.”
“was it hard to potty-train him?”
“he’s adopted, but I was genuinely amazed at how good he already was with hygene and potty stuff.”
“mine’s just obsessed with paw patrol and Frozen, drives me crazy!”
“I imagine. Charlie is colorblind so he’s not as into tv, but he always wants a toy if I take him anywhere with them.”
“oh gosh the toys! And the kids are so rough on them!”
“yeah Charlie can destroy a stuffed animal in about 2 minutes, so I only buy him the really cheap ones.”
“Does he throw tantrums when they break?”
“Not really. It’s meditative, really, taking them apart. He has hysterics if the cat takes his toys though. Runs downstairs and cries at me until I retrieve it because he’s not tall enough to get it out of the cat tree.”
The Very Good Boy in question, Charleston Chew.
(if you want to read more of my much weirder adventures, I have pre-orders for my book on Patreon right now: https://www.patreon.com/gallusrostromegalus )
I have seen every episode of Forensic Files, which is a true crime show which is fantastic, there’s been about a billion of them, which means there’s been about a billion weird murders in the United States. And there’s a guy named Peter Thomas who narrates them and I will fall asleep watching the Forensic Files… I’m also single by the way!
me, putting the trans label on all fictional men i like:
The western stereotype about Ukraine and Ukrainians was created by the russiacentrism in the entire field of slavic studies. Remember Yuval Harari, who in 2019 consented to have russian edition of his book censored and even rewrote some parts, because "russia is world-leading power". So it goes: russia is a "world-leading power" and Ukraine is its backyard, a bleak suburb; something that makes no difference if it exists or not. We were invisible, hidden in the shadow of this great giant.
The origin all these stereotypes come from the history textbooks. All politicians, prior to choosing whether to send us weapons or not, were sitting their asses in Oxfords, Harwards, Cambridges, etc. And when they opened the history textbooks, they learned that russian history began at the christening of Kyiv. And what was ukrainians' place in this history? Bah, that's just some primitive tribespeople running around, who cares. That's the worldview russians taught the european politicians.
In 2014 I was approached with an apology from Karl Schlögel, one of the leading german specialists in slavic history, who told me "My whole life, I only saw Kyiv as a third biggest city of the russian empire". This is a very typical situation. You can waste your entire life telling western europeans about our culture, our authors, etc., but they would only be looking through you. We remained unseen and unheard, because there was only "big russia", and who the hell you are? You have never been here. You have 72 hours to spread your legs before great russian army and appease putin, to make everything fine again.
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- Oksana Zabuzhko, in and interview with BBC News Ukraine
As a person from russia I agree. We have been told since childhood that Ukrainians and Belarussians are in fact russians who got under western influence and thus betrayed us and separated(I was also 14 back then). And that wouldn't it be cool if all other countries that have once been under russian control again become a part of russia, as "we will all be together and have good life". And this is what majority of people here think.
Nevertheless brainwashing isn't an excuse. It's merely an explanation of what's going on.
Some behind the scenes photographs by Ed Caraeff of Dolly Parton taken during the cover session for her album Heartbreaker on February 15, 1978 in Los Angeles, California.
This delivery kills me every time