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Can I hit or do I have to pay tribute to the rest of your polycule first
(In case it's not obvious to everybody, this is an edit; "they pay me in woims" is the punchline from a different Nancy comic. The original punchline to this one is also funny:)
that makes a lot more sense
but the edit is a solid comic
Do you remember the episode of Spongebob where he's training gary for the snail race and does a coach persona + calls gary a girl and has an aside where he's like "I called you a lady to demean you 🤓" and right after he says that it cuts to sandy and she somehow telepathically feels that Spongebob just did something misogynistic and us like I feel like I need to kick Spongebobs ass for some reason. And then she appears just at the end of the episode to kick his ass.
does anyone have that 4chan post about the guy who got like. deradicalised from being an incel because he started taking care of shrimp?
i can't post pictures in replies so here u go
thats the one! thank you!
I think of shrimp guy often and I hope he and his shrimp are doing great and if I ever meet him I would love to ask about them
Saving the prince from her tower 🌧️
how eerie to hear they're going to remake carrie. how eerie to hear they have made the mother into some kind of gentle well-meaning figure.
carrie is almost explicitly about the cycles of abuse. it is almost explicitly about how women and girls are taught to reproduce the patriarchy. it cannot be isolated from either message.
it shows cruel teenagers not as a random whacky plot point but instead to highlight that we are taught to mock other girls for not being fuckable; lest we ourselves be considered not-fuckable. we will eat our own kind to survive. nobody helps her because to help carrie would be to turn against the patriarchy.
carrie's mother has experienced abuse at the hands of her husband and religion not as a "sad backstory" but instead because it lampshades her behavior when she then turns and abuses her daughter while citing that same religion. we are forced to ask the question: what is the difference between the patriarchy and religion? aren't they both systems of control? we often see mothers as being the "ultimate" in innocence and kindness - but this book challenges that narrative. abusive mothers exist, and and always have. abusive women exist and always have. white women, after all, love voting for donald trump.
men are almost absent from the book, but their presence lingers. it feels almost like the red mark made after a slap - the men do not have to be there; the women will continue to abide by the rules without question. it is a devastating, haunting condemnation of the notion of feminine fragility. it accurately asserts that women are cruel, are capable, are power-hungry - and often are hiding behind perceived innocence to mask that cruelty. the abuse carrie experiences rests in a doubled betrayal: it is because of another woman. the supposed "sisterhood" is revealed to be thin, a guise of equanimity that is only offered to the "right" type of girl/woman.
many of us were not the right type of girl.
to go back on these main and obvious themes of the book - to rewrite the mother as some caring and sad creature is... a curious choice. i can't explain it, but it feels almost like censorship to me. it refuses a deeper meaning of the book (and one that questions the patriarchy) in favor of the incredibly thin plot of "what if scary girl had scary powers." i literally don't even know what level of misogyny it is that we have to defang everyone around her in order to tell her story. i'm baffled by it.
in the era of trad wives endlessly posting abusive content of their children online - the adaptation had plenty of meat to modernize her mother. in the era of AI and revenge porn and social media - there's a huge amount of space for a competent writer to play around in. after all, if the abuse is recorded and posted to media - and as the audience we're watching it without interfering - the story is now about us. it asks us who we are comfortable bullying.
it's okay if you feel like you don't have the writing chops to talk about how many religions are abusive and tacitly enable domestic violence. it's okay if you feel like you couldn't write a believable teenage bully. it's okay if you're just interested in "scary girl has scary powers."
but maybe, i don't know, choose a different fucking story?
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True crime content creator Shen Yuan complaining how all these serial killers are stupid and doing crimes for stupid reasons, so Luo Binghe starts killing people to impress Shen Yuan and get him to notice him (it works btw)
IDK I think if cis men are being told that being fat will lower their testosterone and make them Insufficiently Masculine, and cis women are being told that being fat will raise their testosterone and make them Excessively Masculine, and fat trans people are being denied the right to medically transition if they're fat, and thin trans people are warned against HRT because it will make them fat (and this is said about both testosterone and estrogen HRT), and androgynous-presenting people are told that only thin people count as androgynous...
Then maybe...
Maybe...
Maybe the weight loss industry is just using Gender to enforce fatphobia.
so many people don't understand how abelist it is to kill your brother with a rock
i wish we were able to talk about women's rights without someone mentioning how much they do or don't want to have sex with them. i don't care if you're a lesbian Stop finding worth in women purely from their perceived attractiveness
"I think women should not be expected to shave for societal respect / to avoid discrimination" "yeah🤤 i love bush" ok well that's not what we're talking about is it.
i hate how many posts about trans women deserving respect always devolve into "I love girldick" or "trans rights but I don't want to date a trans person" because that's entirely unrelated to the topic at hand. you should not respond to feminism with "YESSS I loveeee you because I see you as nothing but a sex object" you people sound like other men I get stuck talking with that end up saying "free the nipple so I can see boobies in public" and thinking they're feminists. why can't we just respect women regardless of your attraction to them or not. why does it need to be brought up in every conversation regarding their rights
What even is sober anyway.. ?
Thought it’d be quick, well it wasn’t, I really struggled on that one but happy with the result ! Jean Vic is a dangerous man playing on my mind right now..
Here are the rules visible on the board behind him :
Precinct 41 – Internal Operational Directives
Rule 1. If your detective has gone missing for less than 24 hours, assume they are investigating. After 24 hours, assume they are drinking. After 72 hours, file Form 14-C ("Administrative Concern").
Rule 2. No officer may refer to paperwork as "optional," "a suggestion," or "someone else's problem" while within hearing distance of Internal Affairs.
Rule 3. Property recovered during investigations belongs in evidence lockers, NOT coat pockets, desk drawers, or "temporary personal custody."
Rule 4. A detective may not requisition vehicles, boats, horses, or heavy construction equipment without authorization, regardless of how "important the case feels."
Rule 5. The phrase "Trust me, I've got a hunch" is not recognized as probable cause.
Rule 6. If Satellite-Officer Jean Vicquemare tells you something is a terrible idea, you are required to consider the possibility that it is, in fact, a terrible idea.
Rule 7. Officers found gambling with informants must at least have the decency to win.
Rule 8. Department-issued firearms are not negotiation tools, bottle openers, paperweights, or dramatic props.
Rule 9. Reports exceeding twenty pages without containing a single useful fact will be returned with a strongly worded note and visible disappointment.
Rule 10. Detectives are expected to maintain professional relationships with witnesses. Romantic, financial, spiritual, or revolutionary entanglements require prior approval, which will not be granted.
Rule 11. Any investigation resulting in three or more fires requires a supplemental incident report titled "How Did This Happen?"
Rule 12. Declaring yourself "the law" does not exempt you from department regulations.
Rule 13. Karaoke performed while on duty must not interfere with active investigations. The department accepts no responsibility for emotional consequences.
Rule 14. Officers who destroy precinct property through experimental police techniques will be billed unless the results are exceptionally impressive.
Rule 15. Coffee expenditures exceeding ammunition expenditures during a calendar month are considered normal.
Rule 16. Complaints regarding Satellite-Officer Vicquemare's attitude shall be submitted in writing. They will be acknowledged, briefly reviewed, and quietly ignored unless they concern actual misconduct.
Rule 17. Any officer claiming to have solved a case through dreams, cryptids, supernatural intervention, or "the city speaking" must still provide conventional evidence.
Rule 18. Under no circumstances should detectives encourage civilians to believe the RCM is competent by making promises it cannot keep.
Rule 19. Every catastrophe eventually becomes paperwork.
Rule 20. If all procedures have failed, consult your partner before improvising. If your partner is already improvising, notify your lieutenant immediately.
Jean, you gotta stop sitting on your cigarette !
How miserable and smoochable… just a sketchy sketch.
Sucks how many people were taught that "horses put their ears back when they're mad" but then never taught the difference between "angry backwards ears," "mildly annoyed backwards ears," "pain backwards ears," "concentrated backwards ears," "sleepy backwards ears" and "just happens to be listening to something behind it."
"Horses put their ears back when they're mad" idk man i think it depends
These are all completely different expressions in completely different scenarios, and only two of them are decidedly negative.
Actually, I wanna talk about the third horse, the one putting its ears back in pain. Over the last 15 years veterinarians and animal scientists have worked out pain scales for most domestic animals by taking photos of the during routine procedures.
We know vaccines painful, and by comparing horses at rest with horses getting vaccinated, we've been able to determine how they express pain visually. By looking at horses with disorders like colic, broken bones, wounds, and so on, we can determine their facial expressions during more severe pain.
At zookeeper school we were drilled through the pain faces of the most common lab animals and livestock. Nowadays I believe this has become a routine lesson in all animal related fields, but the general public still doesn't know that this is a thing that exists.
Here are all the pain face/grimace scales I've been able to find. Please study them if you interact with any of these animals on a regular basis:
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