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IM CRYING I MADE THIS AND ITS SO STUPID @markiplier

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this is hilarious

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date someone who avoids the holes so you sleep fine in the car and curses their government for not using their taxes to fill holes with more cement

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I hate that fucking kid in every class who’s like “Im double jointed in my arm” and then takes his arm out and swings it around or whatever like chill dude

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um, lets talk about this season

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So yeah, I thought that season was great actually. It was super funny and it brought some of my babes back (looking at you, Nicky and Sophia), and Lolly’s story? Fucking devastating. I really hope she’s back next year. That being said, let’s move into the most obvious talking point of S4. Poussey.

Fucking Poussey Washington, man. She was such a great character. I get really fucked up about character deaths, but I hardly ever cry about them. BUT I finished this season yesterday and I’m still bawling. They worked her up so much- she FINALLY found love, she was laughing, getting along with everyone, promised a job when she got out, and she died. For shock value and black lives matter, even though there are no black writers on the show. I’m mad and I’m sad and I’m grieving really, really hard over someone made up, so I’m probably crazy or something.

But what I really wanted to talk about was at the very end, the last scene. Daya goes badass (imo, she picked up the gun bc she’s thinking of Bennet), and the amazing song that always makes me cry starts playing, and then you see Poussey again, for the last time. It’s her last night in America, presumably before she gets arrested, a flashback- but I don’t think it really is. Poussey, my sweetie, is reliving her best night. Her last night before all of this shit, where she was free and happy and so full of light. Poussey’s in heaven.

In her last scene, the way she is looking out on New York, it’s like she’s reacting to the riot in Litchfield. It’s like she’s smiling because she’s being remembered, and her friends aren’t taking any shit. And the way she looks into the camera? Fuck, man, it breaks my heart every time, and it has got to mean something more than a flashback.

This is Poussey’s afterlife, at least a part of it. She gets to relive her best night, to watch people take action against the utter bullshit that got her killed. And at least this can make us feel a little bit better about losing someone so great.

But that’s just me. What do you guys think?

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Poussey Washington In New York City/Heaven

#oitnb spoilers

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Warning OITNB spoilers ahead

Read no further if you don’t want to see spoilers for OITNB season 4

I know there’s been a lot of conversation about the controversy already, but I have to throw my two cents in. I have a lot of thoughts of the show runners killing of a lesbian WOC in an interracial relationship, but I want to talk about how the writers failed us by choosing Bayley to be the killer. I think choosing CO Bayley was a cop out on the writers’ part. There are intentional parallels between how Poussey was killed and the Black Lives Matter movement, specifically Eric Garner being choked to death while saying “I can’t breathe.”

However, this is where OITNB deviates. They’ve shown us multiple corrupt guards, many of whom are racist and sexist, and they chose Bayley to kill Poussey by accident. They chose Bayley because he’s the most sympathetic guard. He’s the naive, young guard who is clearly in over his head. He’s not a rapist or a sadist. He’s just a kid who didn’t mean to hurt anyone.

Except in real life, the killers did mean to hurt their victims. Kill their victims. Writing Bayley as an accidental killer takes something important away. We as a society were horrified and disgusted when men who chose to make a situation fatal were declared innocent. The writers of OITNB didn’t give us that. They gave us a parallel to the tragedies we have witnessed in our reality, and then they take it away when it comes to the hand that delivered the fatality.

The writers used Bayley so that we would argue and give more attention to their show. They have denied us the catharsis of watching a murderer be brought to justice in favor of a decision meant to spark arguments by fans who disagree on whether Bayley is innocent or guilty, if it was an accident or a murder. We know that Darren Wilson, Daniel Pantaleo, and countless others were guilty of murder. They didn’t have good intentions. Their intentions were clear. They planned to kill.

Writers of OITNB, you have failed us. You claimed a life to symbolize Black Lives Matter, but you have chosen the side of the oppressor by making the killer to be a naive young man with no intent to harm. If Poussey’s death is symbolic of Black Lives Matter, then is Bayley symbolic of Darren Wilson and the other murderous men? No. No, because there was no reason to doubt the guilt of those men.

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I just have to say I disagree with this. By choosing bayley to portray the point of black lives matter, they were able to portray that it’s not just individuals that caused the harm but it was the system. If they had chosen one of the other guards we could all just be ‘fucking racist crap guard’ and have a specific person to scapegoat and move on. But by making it Bayley it’s making people realise that racism is institutionalised. It is not just his fault she died. It was the whole system. It was his higher up, his boss, the organisation, just all of society. All the other murderous men in our society, Darren Wilson and alike, were yes awful people, but we let them and the victim down as a society. We let a person like them all be in a position of power.

And the other thing is there is no way to question Bayley’s guilt. He did a bad thing that is illegal. But it’s not necessarily his fault.

malibu-rum-enthusiast

I 100% agree. I see where you’re coming from by saying that Bayley had no ill intentions and the accidental death. I strongly believe the point the writers were trying to make, though, is the problem with the entire system that has failed rather than just a few individual officers that have racist and misogynistic agendas. The corrupt system failed its officers and its inmates. The entire point is how this could have been prevented.