For Fuck's Sake

My askbox is always open. My obsessions are on display. Beware of flying cock. Cis Female (She/Her Prounouns) The easiest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.                                           - Nietzsche

[egdirthguad]

That’s it… That’s the whole show

[weavemama]

when white people wanna bring up “black on black crime”

[jessnunuu]

!!!!!!

[plaidadder]

Hillary Clinton played Donald Trump like a grand piano tonight. And I would like a million encores.

I want everyone to know what Hillary Clinton did tonight. It isn’t just that she ‘won’ the debate; Democratic presidential candidates have been winning these debates on substance since 1980 and often, it doesn’t help them in the election. She went in there tonight with two objectives: 1) make people warm up to her personally and 2) make Donald Trump self-destruct. Donald Trump’s objective was to make people believe that he is a grown-up, or at least that he can pretend to be a grown-up for ninety minutes. 

I knew how it was going to go down as soon as she said, “Donald, it’s good to be with you.” I knew for two reasons. First: because she really meant it. She was genuinely pleased to be on a stage with him. And it’s not because she likes him. It’s because she knew she was going to fuck him up and she knew exactly how she was going to do it and she was really looking forward to it.  

Second: she called him Donald. She called him Donald all night long. Consistently and deliberately and for three good reasons. One: it reminds everyone that he has never held a position that gives him any right to a title other than “Mr.” Two: it seems friendly, but it also really pisses him off. And three: By calling him Donald, she avoided repeating his brand name.

This is the level on which Clinton and her team are working. Donald Trump has staked everything on his last name–the name he inherited from his father. It’s Trump this, Trump that, Trump the other. When he puts his name on a thing, it doesn’t say Donald anywhere, it just says TRUMP. TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP. Trump is a good brand name. It’s a noun, it’s a verb, it’s triumphant-sounding. “Donald” has none of those qualities. If she’d been calling him “Mr. Trump,” every time she said it, she would be advertising the Trump brand, which is of course the exact opposite of what she’s there to do. So she called him Donald. And he could not take it.

Without losing her temper, raising her voice, or descending to his level, she made that bastard reveal himself to the Jedi. She brought up things that are going to seem completely unsympathetic to voters, but of which Trump himself is really proud: like not paying any federal taxes (”That makes me smart,” Trump said), stiffing his contractors (”Maybe they didn’t do good work,” Trump said; “I took advantage of the laws,” Trump said), his repeated bankruptcies, the $14 million loan from his father (”A very small loan,” Trump called it). She noted that he exploited the housing crisis for personal gain (”That’s called business,” Trump said). She called him out for his racism; he responded by proving that she’s right (Trump, apparently, is aggrieved that he did not get a medal for opening a club that did not discriminate against Black people even though it was in a really nice part of Florida). When he made what to me was a cryptic jab about her “staying home” while he was traveling, she just smiled and said, “I think Donald just criticized me for preparing for this debate. And yes, I did. You know what else I prepared for? I prepared to be President. And I think that’s a good thing.”

He tried to talk over her. She ignored him. That was beautiful. One, because it’s exactly the way Trump should be treated, all the time; and two, because it made him even madder. His inability to get a rise out of her made him lose his mind. This is a man who wants to be President of the United States. And he spent an entire 2-minute segment begging people to call Sean Hannity so he could vouch for the fact that Trump was always against the Iraq war. Nobody would talk to Sean Hannity, he complained. Why would no one talk to Sean Hannity?

She was capable of actually remembering the original question and getting around to answering it after dealing with the human distraction standing next to her. He often seemed to completely forget the question seconds into his answer. At times, he was so busy talking over the moderator that he didn’t even hear the question. 

Hillary Clinton has been dealing with entitled, narcissistic, patronizing, asshole men her entire life as a Senator and as Secretary of State. She has skills in this area. She used them all tonight; and she enjoyed doing it. She looked like she was at ease, confident, and having a great time. She looked young. That was the way I put it to Mrs. Plaidder, and she agreed. She looked fresh, and energized, and exhilarated by the challenge. And that only made Trump’s “stamina” bullshit seem even dumber.

She stayed focused, despite his distractions. She dropped every bomb she came to drop at exactly the right moment. She used everything he bragged about against him. She made him too mad to put together a coherent sentence. And she smiled.

We knew she could to the job. We now know she can win this election.

During, I believe, the 2012 presidential election, people used to pass around a photo of Obama pointing forcefully at the camera with the caption, “Everybody chill the fuck out. I got this.” 

Y’all can chill the fuck out now. Hillary Clinton has this shit handled. She knows how he works and if he is ever fool enough to share a stage with her again she will fillet him. And yes. I AM WITH HER.

[tyleroakley]

make sure you’re registered to vote HERE, it’s so easy to do.

[lettersfromtitan]

This analysis is awesome and correct! But, expectations are now elevated for her next debate performance and there may be pressure for the next moderator may be harder on her. Clinton was awesome and a delight, but CONSTANT VIGILANCE.

[kirstengillibrand]

“and then he said, his temperament was his strongest asset”

[stolentweets]

[jesperfahey]

[mickeyandcompany]

Look, a girl! Yes, I can see it’s a girl, you fool. What if she is the one?

[megan-fox]

Look, a girl! I can see it’s a girl you fool. What if she is the one?

[teesadutta]

4.11.16

[micdotcom]

Watch: Jessica Williams also explained how the message has been in Beyoncé’s music all along.

[crayoladinosaurs]

Am I the only person who doesn’t have a problem with Natasha calling herself a monster for being infertile? It may be an idea that’s instilled by a society that’s fucked up, but I feel like that’s a very real reaction some women would have to that. If someone else had called her a monster, I would have been pissed too. I just feel like self labeling based on a skewed view of a perceived failing is a ridiculously human trait….

[fidefortitude-deactivated202011]

I get where you’re coming from here, and as someone who doesn’t have overwhelmingly strong opinions on AoU and this particular scene I really do understand your perspective.

But… While, yes, Natasha is doing what you’re describing.. She’s not self-labelling, because she’s being labelled by someone else.

Natasha’s a character. If I’m not mistaken (unless Zak Penn got script credits for both films), Joss Whedon was the writer here. And the only human calling the shots on any labels is him. Natasha, as his mouthpiece through Scarlett Johansson, can be made to say whatever he feels Natasha should say. It’s him that chooses to make Natasha’s source of insecurity, her reason to call herself a monster, her own infertility. If this was real life and not a piece of carefully scripted entertainment I would agree with you wholeheartedly, but in this case, Natasha calls herself a monster because those words came from the script Joss Whedon wrote.

(If anyone wants to debate with me on these points they’re welcome to; but I’ll maintain an anxiously neutral position, I’m warning y'all now; I don’t think Joss Whedon’s a bad guy, just one that made some objectively poor writing choices in AoU.)

[crayoladinosaurs]

So I totally get that Joss is responsible for those feelings. All I’m saying is that I don’t have a problem with him talking that route because it is such a real thing. So many women feel like failures for that. Like they’re less of a woman, a monster, if you will. To have a character as strong as Black Widow, identify with that school of thought? It gives them someone to look at and go, that woman is badass. There’s no way she’s a monster. Maybe I’m not one either. I don’t know. I just felt like it was human.

[fidefortitude-deactivated202011]

Perhaps; I just felt that for a never-before-revealed piece of information about Natasha’s character, to frame it in such a way felt overwhelmingly… stark? There wasn’t much of an argument towards her point of view being flawed, if I recall rightly- mostly it was brought up because she was arguing that when it came to coupling with Bruce, she made an even worse potential partner than he does. (And, as much as Bruce is my fave, //Nat. Bruce literally turns into a giant green guy. You are not winning this contest of awful partners no matter what you’ve done.) And afterwards, not a lot is made of this backstory, other than it being…

I don’t know. Of every avenue, of every plotline… Frankly, I felt it just felt flawed. It wasn’t sensitively handled as a serious real-life topic, not to my eye, and if it couldn’t be given that time it shouldn’t have been framed with such strong wording as ‘monster’. Not if they weren’t going to refute those words with equally strong ones.

In all honesty, I wanted Joss to write something in akin to what Loki spoke of in the interrogation scene in Avengers 1; her admitting the 'hospital fire’, or what happened to 'the Dreykov girl’, if I remember the lines rightly from scratch. Something that cut more deeply to both Natasha and the audience, given Loki’s use of it previously; something that underlined the parallels and differences between Banner and Romanoff a little more clearly.

I don’t think you’re wrong, not at all- just that if that was the interpretation Joss Whedon intended (and it could well have been), he could have done a far better job at handling that material.

[crayoladinosaurs]

I feel like they have more time. If it was a one off movie, I could understand, but it's one of the largest franchises ever. I mean, I'm not a huge Bruce/Natasha fan, but if that's the road they're taking, I feel like they definitely have time to refute her position. It's not that I don't understand where people's disapproval comes from, but I can't condemn the writer's for it. It just doesn't seem like that big an offense.

[crayoladinosaurs]

Am I the only person who doesn’t have a problem with Natasha calling herself a monster for being infertile? It may be an idea that’s instilled by a society that’s fucked up, but I feel like that’s a very real reaction some women would have to that. If someone else had called her a monster, I would have been pissed too. I just feel like self labeling based on a skewed view of a perceived failing is a ridiculously human trait….

[fidefortitude-deactivated202011]

I get where you’re coming from here, and as someone who doesn’t have overwhelmingly strong opinions on AoU and this particular scene I really do understand your perspective.

But… While, yes, Natasha is doing what you’re describing.. She’s not self-labelling, because she’s being labelled by someone else.

Natasha’s a character. If I’m not mistaken (unless Zak Penn got script credits for both films), Joss Whedon was the writer here. And the only human calling the shots on any labels is him. Natasha, as his mouthpiece through Scarlett Johansson, can be made to say whatever he feels Natasha should say. It’s him that chooses to make Natasha’s source of insecurity, her reason to call herself a monster, her own infertility. If this was real life and not a piece of carefully scripted entertainment I would agree with you wholeheartedly, but in this case, Natasha calls herself a monster because those words came from the script Joss Whedon wrote.

(If anyone wants to debate with me on these points they’re welcome to; but I’ll maintain an anxiously neutral position, I’m warning y'all now; I don’t think Joss Whedon’s a bad guy, just one that made some objectively poor writing choices in AoU.)

[crayoladinosaurs]

So I totally get that Joss is responsible for those feelings. All I'm saying is that I don't have a problem with him talking that route because it is such a real thing. So many women feel like failures for that. Like they're less of a woman, a monster, if you will. To have a character as strong as Black Widow, identify with that school of thought? It gives them someone to look at and go, that woman is badass. There's no way she's a monster. Maybe I'm not one either. I don't know. I just felt like it was human.

[daenishlove]

 What is the Quest and why should you watch it?

- It’s literally the love child of Lord of the Rings meets Survivor meets Merlin (it is literally produced by one of the producers of LOTR IT’S AMAZING)

- IT IS BASICALLY OUR DREAMS TO BE PUT INTO A MAGICAL WORLD OF OGRES AND WITCHES AND CASTLES AND QUEENS AND BECOMING HEROES IN IT AND THIS SHOW IS IT

- There are quite a few P.O.C. in this show and it’s totally badass to see them represent and be amazing

-The integration of storyline and the competition are incredibly amazing and it makes me want to be a Palladin.

-It’s not about brute strength but the finding of the real qualities of the One True Hero and it is just so incredibly amazing how the Three Fates decide who deserves to save the kingdom of Everealm.

-1 SEASON 10 Episodes ALL ON NETFLIX <3

It’s definitely not perfect and it is still the beginning of an incredible reimagining of a genre but in the end it’s a show after a dreamer’s own heart so I totally recommend this show to everyone!!!!

[crayoladinosaurs]

Am I the only person who doesn't have a problem with Natasha calling herself a monster for being infertile? It may be an idea that's instilled by a society that's fucked up, but I feel like that's a very real reaction some women would have to that. If someone else had called her a monster, I would have been pissed too. I just feel like self labeling based on a skewed view of a perceived failing is a ridiculously human trait....

[cybergata]

#blackcatappreciationday🐾

[airframeextender]

the american dream is now being the best in the world at something in order to pay medical bills

[daviddadeer]

Only an asshole could turn something as nice as this into a bad thing

[airframeextender]

this isnt a nice thing this shouldnt be seen as some sort of spirit lifting feel good news blurb it should be seen as a damning indictment of the usa’s healthcare system

[swampgallows]

“win this race and we’ll let your son live”; a heartwarming tale

[endthezona-blog]

^^^

[nerdybloke]

How can people be offended at comparing the American healthcare system in this manner? The American Heathcare system is quite literally like a dystopian, corporate controlled monopoly on evil, but it’s repackaged into a bright colourful box with happy smiling people telling you that everything is ok while simultaneously convincing you that it’s normal to let people die if they can’t afford to live.

[killledorworse-expelled]

Anyone who forgives Snape for everything needs to remember that if Neville was the chosen one, Snape would still be a death eater.