Tangential, but wow it’s bizarre in retrospect how silly 70s and 80s depictions of “pimps” were. Like, aren’t these dudes implicitly abusing and exploiting the women they employ?

Read some of early James Rhodes stuff. It’s fairly cringey.

Andy done blown too many industry execs to get fired

Sadly not surprising all these stereotypes are in a series that is a love letter to the elite Old Etonian boarding schools that have served as a great bastion for WASPy males.  

Don’t forget the Irish guy is constantly blowing shit up, and the only explicitly Jewish character is named Goldstein.

And don’t forget the roving bands of deviant male criminals trying to spread their blood- and saliva-born illness *specifically* to teenage boys

You mean to tell me that the TERF Wizard Lady who included a subplot in her books arguing that slavery is ok if the slaves are happy being slaves and whose only Asian and Irish characters are named “Cho Chang” and “Seamus Finnegan” respectively also had antisemitic stereotypes?/s

That plane fight is totally unrealistic, everyone knows you can’t climb things that aren’t yellow! It’s science!

I still think they shoulda settled it in the ring.

nasty calluses that would take a cheese grater to grind off.

For science.

I would believe Nicolas Cage has seen every cock on the planet.

When you’re right, you’re right

Thanks!

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