RhetoricalImpulse
Rhetorical Impulse
RhetoricalImpulse

It's an e-hookah I think! One time my boyfriend bought one and got weirdly obsessed with it for ~2 days and then I left it in my mom's car, along with my bra (WHICH I HAD REMOVED FOR COMFORT PURPOSES). I later had to write her a very shameful text asking for both things to be returned to me.

Ringo Starr has a cameo in the Powerpuff Girls' new special as a "flamboyant mathematician" named... FIBONACCI SEQUINS.

This face is the greatest reaction I can imagine. I really wish I could have heard his thoughts at this moment in time. "What do we do? Do we ignore it? Do we leave? This is so uncomfortable. I just wanted to watch the game. Uch, drunk people."

Ah, yes. The very helpful "Because you seem to be ok with watching black people here are all of the black people we've got" recommendations. Netflix does it too.

Look, I will just break down what we're thinking and pretending we're not here:

If you think that it's okay to ask strangers about their genitalia, Google needs to be your substitute for all human interaction. I really can't believe I have to explain that.

The other thing about the books is that even though people a lot of people with olive skin are considered white in current society, the books frame District 12 as having two distinct ethnic groups. There's people like Katniss's mother, who are fair skinned with light hair and people from the Seam (like Kattniss's

Miss Cox can explain much more eloquently than I can:

It's not anyone's job to educate you on the specifics about their own genitals. What the fuck is wrong with you people?

It's like if a news anchor had two experts on global warming on her show, and asked one of them "But it's so cold out. Can this really be global warming?" and one of them was like "That is not how global warming works, and spewing such utter bullshit on national television is bad for the cause."

Ummmm I will go crazy shit crazy if they get rid of Perry. Hell No. That is my show. I love that woman.

For the record, I am aware of when celsius and farenheit intersect! And, for the record, I found suggesting that people can go about in -20F weather wearing "a sweater jacket (???) and light gloves," to be irresponsible and unrealistic, however sarcastically you intended your comment to come across!

As a society, I think we're past the point where we need to give people a pass for assuming they get to interrogate trans people — or any other group of people that are in some way distinct from the 'majority' — about deeply personal topics just to satisfy their curiosity.

Well, it's NOT standard in most areas of our country. So maybe don't be such a smug asshole? We're entitled to be cold in sub-zero temperatures. You're being ridiculous.

Maybe it would help if you stopped thinking of/talking about trans* people like they are data and started thinking of them as people.

"Can someone zip me up?"

I think she was trying to phrase it better, but she still basically said "This thing that I asked Carmen made her really uncomfortable. Does it make you uncomfortable, and why is that?" It's a much better question in that it doesn't ask her to talk about her genitals or her surgery, but it's not much better because it

I think that the trans* community is pretty unified on the taboo (read: incredible rudeness) of asking about someone's GENITALS. Actually, I feel like most people are on board with that one.

Society has never been at a point where genital surgery is polite conversation or appropriate for interviews. Asking them about their feelings or perspectives is okay, asking for details about medical procedures done to their private parts is not.

Yes, you're allowed to have an "opinion," but your "opinion" here just consists of diagnosing a stranger, which just makes you look like a jerk who has no idea what they're talking about.