sometimes-southern US dweller. in my second decade of fandom. I mostly read fic and write long reviews on AO3. multifandom, but currently (and always & forever) entranced by Victoria Goddard's Hands of the Emperor. always down to talk headcanons, sacred text analysis, or nerdy stuff. she/her.
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CLINTON: Can I Respond? I Heard There Would Not Be Any Fact-checking This Debate, So I Brought My Own.
CLINTON: Can I respond? I heard there would not be any fact-checking this debate, so I brought my own. I just want to explain what your plan would actually do. It is like trickle-down economics, but even worse. I came up with a fun nickname for it because my campaign wanted to make sure I created moments of “levity” instead of just “lecturing.” This is the straitjacket of speaking while female. “Trumped-up trickle-down,” we call it. Is that fun? By my standards, that seems fun. Donald, your business started when your dad loaned you $14 million.
TRUMP: In my defense, $14 million is, like, practically nothing. If I found it crumpled up in the pocket of a coat I had not worn in a while, I would make a face and throw it away. Also, NAFTA is bad, Secretary Clinton — does that make you happy? Usually when I address women as “secretary” they get upset and yell.
TRUMP: I have the best temperament. Obviously.
CLINTON: Obviously. Yes. Obviously. You have interrupted me 70 times to say nonsense remarks that indicate you have not the faintest idea what you are talking about. Seventy times. I have spent my life doing this. You decided, like, last year that you were mildly interested in it and that you would probably be great at it. I wish I had that confidence. I wish any little girl did.
If I had coughed even once on this stage, I would have lost this debate instantly. And so you know what? I did not cough. Not even once. You sniffed and you lectured and you made faces and you sighed. And I stood there. Impassive. Like a screensaver. I focus-grouped my number of blinks.
@lettersfromtitan, have you seen this?
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Seriously. Like the treatment of Ann Coulter - I’ve heard people calling her a man, or calling her an ugly woman. Or talking about Kim Davis, that county clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses, ripping apart her appearance as if it were a clue to her moral character. Stop.
I just went to a presentation on implicit personality theories and learned that our perceptions of others’ attractiveness are a central personality trait that we attribute to them, and there are lots of sub-traits that we implicitly associate with attractiveness. So it makes sense that we would use insults of people’s looks to imply that they’re not good or trustworthy in other ways. We just need to be aware that this is a shitty thing to do and resist it.
It’s like weird that I have to say this but insulting someone’s appearance isn’t a substitute for an argument and is basically always going to involve some fucked up shit so like
It’s unnecessary and immature and yeah it’s problematic and stop fucking doing it
oh dear lord why
I somehow missed that one on its first go-round. I mean, I know YKINMKATOK, but I feel that this does not apply here. ;_;
I know discourse is the word of choice in fandom nowadays but I kind of wish we would have stuck with “fandom wank” because it carries the implication that the anger involved culminated into effectively nothing and that the act was wholeheartedly masturbatory in nature rather than for any greater cause.
bittyybee replied to your post “so we all know jack’s got crazy hockey money, and bitty wouldn’t want…”
Setting the record straight because Emma alluded to it but not super clearly: Jack looks up a list of “safest cars” so Bitty won’t get hurt in any situation.
ABSOLUTELY. He does SO MUCH RESEARCH. First, like, he just does some fishing, asking about Bitty’s favorite types of cars (Bitty is a Southern boy; he loves big SUVs), and what colors he likes (“I don’t know, any color. There’s something kind of sexy and classic about black cars, though.”), and then Jack is like, cool. Got the info. Time to do some research.
So then he googles, “safest SUVs” and then when that gives him back these like… frankly kinda dumpy looking cars, Jack googles, “safest luxury SUVs” because, well, it was Bittle who said he liked “sexy and classic” cars, so that’s what Jack wants to get. That’s what he’s going for. Sexy and classic. And safe. The safest car.
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Interviewer: I’ve been hearing about some pretty nasty things that haters have done to you.
Leslie: I receive bad stuff all the time. That stuff doesn’t affect me because you’re always going to have somebody that don’t like you. If I let that affect me, I probably wouldn’t be a performer. x