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The Twelve Dancing Princesses illustrated by Sheilah Beckett (1954)

i’ve seen this floating around finnish fb too. finnish is also a gender-neutral language and results were similar. ‘he’s a professor’, ‘he’s an engineer’, ‘she’s a nurse’, ‘she’s a nanny’.

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xplodingunicorn

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Let’s review.

YEP.

NOPE.

Yuh huh.

Nuh uh.

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ladyfabulous

Growing up in the 80s and early 90s really made quicksand a thing to be feared.

piss-pirate

Your only real danger from quicksand is getting stuck in a tidal area and drowning when the tide comes in

kokolokos

the fear is back

defeatmenot

was gonna comment about the drowning but it dere!

dorkbending

tag yourself im chunky soup

emilysidhe

Baby It’s Cold Outside discourse is the same as Macbeth discourse.

dont-spoop-yourself

Explain?

emilysidhe

OK, so one of the big debates in Macbeth involves the scene in which Lady Macbeth talks Macbeth into killing King Duncan. People debate strenuously over whether it’s a scene of Lady M pressuring her reluctant husband into it, or whether it’s a scene of her sensing, due to their emotional intimacy, that this murder is something her husband secretly wants and has partially internally decided to do, and is arguing him into it in order to help him give himself permission to do it, in the same way that people see their loved ones wavering over the dessert menu and jump in with things like, “Go on, get the cheesecake, it’s your birthday!” Readers and scholars disagree strenuously about this - we even studied an incident in college in which two 18th century illustrators attended the same performance and happened to draw the scene the day after, producing two images that advanced opposite interpretations even though they’d seen the exact same actors do the exact same performance. It’s a big deal.

In the same way, the Baby, It’s Cold Outside discourse is about whether this is a song about sexual harassment, or whether it’s a woman singing about how she wishes she could spend the night with the guy she just had an excellent date with if only the neighbors wouldn’t talk, and him responding, “Stay, baby, it’s cold out! No one could expect you to go home in this!”

ms-demeanor

I really don’t know (baby stab his side) King Duncan’s a bro (baby cut through his hide) I like him a lot (That decrepit old sot?) This plan ain’t so great (But what a king you’d make!)

The guards might worry (Darling, do it in a hurry!) His sons will rush the door (So knock them on the floor.)

I’m not such a knave (Bash his head with a stave) But I’d be a good king (Now you’re starting to think)

The dukes might all talk (But their chatter means naught) Say, love, what do you mean (You’d make such a king)

I simply must go (baby cut through his hide) There’s a war on you know (baby cut through his hide)

But what of his wife? (And what of his life?) It feels like bad luck (But that don’t mean much)

I’ve got a bad premonition (And I’ve got a mission) But that’s just superstition (My love, you’re a vision)

The witches said I’d rule (If they lied they were cruel) So baby let’s stab Stab his siiiiide!

pianoaround

Rockin and a rollin.

neomushi

this has so many chaotic energies to it

audacityinblack

play this @ my funeral

nuclearcarrots

everything from the wurlitzer to the spinning double horn speaker to the over alls to the cow skull which he is using to crash the cymbals suggests that this is some sort of demi-god

there are bells on his elbows for crying out loud, and is that an 8 track recorder??? help

sanderdraws

I got the opportunity to do some work on DropMix, a new game by Harmonix that recently came out! This was one of THE most fun things I have worked on - many thanks to everyone in the team involved in making it happen!

trilllizard666

So apparently I was right, and Disney had a very very angry phone call with EA. No less than BOB IGER HIMSELF calling EA and shitting down their throat over the micro-transactions.

But what’s weird about this that I don’t think reddit did it.

I don’t think the attention to it from gaming websites like kotaku and co did it either, tbh.

I think what did it was the small trickle of mainstream media reporting did it, combined with the “I Would Like To Speak To Your Manager” Soccer Mom Disney crowd cause someone spread an infographic about the shit and how long it would take to unlock stuff or how much it would cost to buy Han, Luke, Vader, etc…..through the soccer mom kinda circuit with shit like “SHARE if you’re ASHAMED that a STAR WARS GAME has GAMBLING”

and there’s no way that an actual Facebook Mom made that infographic cause it don’t look like some shit someone’s hobbyist mom made.

I think some very clever person, disgruntled at this shit, or maybe even several clever people, managed to figure out just the right demographic to target to get results from Disney putting pressure on EA because Disney owns the Star Wars license and they’re two things that were precision engineered to get results:

Very heavily marketed towards kids and parents that buy shit for their children

Disney being very VERY notoriously protective of their properties

somebody knew just what buttons to push to get (probably temporary) decisive results

trilllizard666

this is really weird because it feels like some early cyperpunk proxy information war. like, you had a lot of the gaming press and EA themselves starting to rev up the “HARASSMENT YOU CAN’T CRITICIZE US BECAUSE HARASSMENT” publicity thing that they were obviously starting up before Disney told EA to stop the microtransactions Or Else.

you’ve got one side/end that was benefiting from that fake EA employee that claimed he was getting death threats and personal attacks from it. this from someone on twitter who was being followed by numerous game journalists, industry insiders, and even actual EA employees. pointedly, EA never actually denied that this was an employee but they obviously didn’t confirm it either, and so they exploited useful idiots like Patrick Kleppek and the others trying to argue harassment, if they aren’t using them directly.

and then this other end that seems to have made Disney and the soccer moms into a cat’s paw to get what they want (the microtransactions to go away)

like, any time in a “nerd interest” if you complain directly to artists, writers, the management line, the game developers, what you’d usually get would be a snarky response from someone with bright pink hair, a shitty beard, or both, and you’d end up on some kind of block list. I think whoever did this KNOWS this and decided to attack the money with a pressure point that they specifically went after through a cat’s paw.

disney doesn’t really care about FPS players or Star Wars fan boys being Mad As Hell about this, but I think they did care about the negative mainstream attention on it from actual gambling commissions in european countries looking into this and angry moms.

this is teaching a pretty interesting lesson to people that don’t like corporate interests that control their comics, their nerd shit, whatever.

if you’re a Geek ™ type, no matter if you play video games or read comics, and you complain directly to people then you’ll be basically told “oh suck it up fanboy” with the unsaid part of this statement being “we know you’ll keep buying this no matter how shit it gets because you’re dumb collectors and slaves to this brand no matter what”

but if you use a mainstream proxy that is a demographic that makes the rights holders or controlling company a ton of money?

they might just do what they want as long as you frame it right.

lennythereviewer

For those of you wondering, THIS is the infographic in question

Going after the ‘easily offended moms’ group was a stroke of absolute diabolical genius

Go ahead and downvote EA to oblivion and rail them until the cows come home, they’re USED to it! They’ve been consistently voted the worst company in America! This is nothing new to them! But go after Disney and succeed in making them look bad when their whole empire is built on it’s public image…

Oh, let’s not forget the delicious cherry on top when one of the head honchos in Hawaii compared ‘Disney selling gambling to children’ to Joe Camel selling cigarettes to children

The guile and trickery involved in getting results out of this is something to be admired. This is hands down one of my favorite ‘internet’ moments of all time

moontouched-moogle

Honestly that Facebook Mom™ infographic counts as a full blown legit PSYOP

scots-dragon

And the fun thing? There isn’t a single lie in that infographic.

elodieunderglass

Oh I don’t even go here but I respect this so hard

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one thing I find hilarious is when Shakespeare quotes are used out of context

like, people are always saying “some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them” as if it’s all deep and meaningful when actually it comes from a prank letter in Twelfth Night

and “This above all: to thine own self be true” comes from Polonius in Hamlet wherein the joke is that he’s an old pompous dude giving a long and rambling speech full of contradictory pointless advice to his son

“Brevity is the soul of wit” is another joke, because again, it’s made by Polonius who will just not shut up

it’s “we are such stuff as dreams are made on” not “of “, as in, “such stuff as dreams are built on”

“wherefore art thou, Romeo” doesn’t mean “where are you, Romeo” it means “why the fuck are you called Romeo, shit, I wanted to bang you but I can’t because you’re a goddamn Montague”

all these lines have acquired a kind of dignity in text that they never had in performance or are constantly misinterpreted

It’s not necessarily bad but it is kind of funny, sometimes.

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