I’m so here for this. When you are marginalized, your existence IS resistance. I’m Black, female, and bisexual, and just living my life feels like a protest when so much of society doesn’t want any of those parts of me to exist publicly.
Maybe it’s my generation, but I’ve always looked at “Pride” as protest. Maybe it’s because my oats were sown at the first Dyke Marches (SF then NYC)...but I’m not sure when queers ever thought this wasn’t an act of resistance. Because, maybe LA?
Like Clover said the visuals were incredible and I was super impressed by them but hot damn it was Pocahontas without any of the good songs or the raccoon.
Will not be open.
This from an op-Ed piece from the LA Times - an excerpt:
I can say from a rather short experience that solitary confinement is torture in every way but name.
I was picked up on an outstanding warrant, having just left a rehab facility for a variety of issues (drug and alcohol abuse, major depressive disorder, etc.), and was taken to my local jail. I was in an already…
This is the fucking truth.
Ali Wong’s special is so good!
Her standup is fine. She gets a lot of shit for stealing jokes, but that just happens in comedy, especially TV special comedy. Jimmy Kimmel at the Oscars basically “stole” a joke from Tina Fey at the Golden Globes about actresses losing weight for films. I really really liked Trainwreck and her 12 Angry Men episode on…
Also; “I’m so sorry that happened to you”
yes. thank you. “I would never” - BUT YOU DID. “That’s not me” - YES IT IS. “That’s not him” - AGAIN, YES. “I accept responsibility for what I did, but” - NOPE ON OUT OF HERE WITH THAT BUT, YOU BUTT.
Yes, sweetheart.
From another article on CNN:
Wait. That was their defense? That they weren’t the ones who threatened the partygoers? Man, fuck y’all. You rolled up six or seven cars deep into a mostly African-American neighborhood with Confederate flags flying from every single vehicle. You purposely went out looking for a fucking conflict, and when you noticed…
Also, maybe I’m reading the article incorrectly, but didn’t she actually do the stuff she is saying she would never do?
“I would never ...” = “I didn’t realize there would be consequences for my actions.” Which is why we are seeing an uptick in racist and anti-Semitic acts; people are getting the message that they can get away with it.
Meanwhile, Olympic-level trolling inside:
I’ve been to Iceland AND Wyoming.