#riverwaltz

[jakke]

riverwaltz replied to your post: turnabout replied to your photo: ...

for some reason I thought Philz was a west coast thing! Tbh I am super intimidated by it, I feel so provincial there

I think it started out as a West Coast thing? Feels awfully West Coast anyway. Waiting for Stumptown to make its way out here.

[jakke]

riverwaltz replied to your quote:The Chinese-born and U.S.-trained biologist set up...

have I not woken up yet or is the headline really really bad? I had to reread it like six times to figure it out.

Yeah I don’t know how I feel about “powers” as the only verb in the headline. Especially when “rise” is the next word and we naturally read that as a verb. Still prefer this kind of mess to “What’s Happening To Monkey In This Town In China Could Make You Rich” or something.

[dancinginodessa]

riverwaltz replied to your post“I’m not afraid of July 31 this year, but that doesn’t mean it’s going...”

Sending you lots of love.

Thank you so much, lovely.

[14kgoldupgraded]

riverwaltz replied to your post : What the fuck is this weather?? And of course I...

IT’S SO COLD MY FURNACE IS STILL ON ON APRIL 23RD GOD IS DEAD

I’m pretty sure nothing NYC does will beat my freshman year at college, where it snowed on the first day of finals mid-May. And I wouldn’t care at all if I didn’t have to get to therapy this afternoon and wasn’t planning on being out for the rest of the day too. But blah. WHINE. 

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glossylalia replied to your post:bapgeek2geekbap replied to your post: Too long for... I always coded Rachel (and Cher) as Jewish for all the reasons you listed. They were obvi to me but I grew up around a lot of Jewish ppl?

I assume that's the issue. I mean, I think it's obvious with exposure, but it's not as if I would expect random (especially white) person to see that coding (especially on someone without a schnozz) and read the character as anything but White-Like-Me. At least Alicia Silverstone is actually Jewish? Of course, Jennifer Aniston did get a nose job, but not 'cause of schnozzing.

riverwaltz replied to your post:Too long for a reply: I always thought the Friends... No, you’re right; I’m sorry for saying that.

Seriously, don't worry too much (this time); if you don't encounter something much, you wouldn't normally think of it in the context of whose language is this. Also, in the context you used it, I might not even notice; it's one thing to describe yourself as a shiksa, something else to roll with Witherspoon and Applegate illustrating the term to a tee in a conversation that already involves the term. Anyway, keep it in mind, but like, I didn't even notice until I was editing the tags, so -- and the tags were primarily to remind people not to use 'JAP'.

[14kgoldupgraded]

Too long for a reply: I always thought the Friends writers were super inconsistent about coding the characters as Jewish. I always thought Monica and Ross were Jewish and never understood why Monica always had a Christmas tree (I think they eventually explained that they were half?), and I always perceived Rachel as Jewish but then they cast Reese Witherspoon and Christina Applegate as her sisters, and they were shown as mega shiksas.

It was consistent enough in the first season; I think it popped up from time to time in season 2, and Ross of course looked Jewish and didn’t need much coding beyond his face (the girls needed heavy coding because it’s not like the showrunners were going to take the risk of casting women who weren’t conventionally attractive). So it wasn’t so much inconsistent as a conceit used to gain Seinfeld-fueled traction in the first place, that was then discarded as soon as it was deemed unnecessary. Disposal ethnicity. 

I also think that much of the coding could be lost on goyische audiences. I mean, if I hear of a young woman named Rachel, engaged to a dentist named Barry, who is overly reliant on Daddy’s credit card, I know someone is showing me a JAP. Like, just “engaged to a dentist named Barry” makes me think AHA, a Jew! I can’t expect that’s true for people who don’t live with such things. 

That being said, that the whole thing was bullshittery in attempting to create ‘character’ hinges on Monica: Monica, with her expressly Jewish brother, played by a goy and presented as goyische for at least seven seasons.

So, like, fuck Friends, but I feel that way mainly because they pretended for a season or two to acknowledge my existence as something beyond a stock character and then fucked me over.

*eta: please note the tags y’all; goyim do *not* get to use JAP, shiksa, goy, etc. That’s our language.

[14kgoldupgraded]

That's a sick joke.

riverwaltz replied to your post:Things that aren’t possible if you don’t have a...

I feel this so hard. My old insurance (my office just switched last week after having it for 2.5 yrs) covered, I shit you not, $9 of every behavioral health appointment. Nine fucking dollars. What the fuck kind of system is this?

Like... if they're not gonna cover something, just don't cover it at all. That's a fucking insult.