New Girl!

[SPOILER WARNING: You will find a myriad of major spoilers from last night's episode of recent Girl within this thread, if you haven't seen it yet, you might like to skip it.]Who would like to discuss last night's episode of recent Girl beside me? Because OMG NEW GIRRRRRLLLLL!!!!!! There have been a lot of things I loved relating to this episode! Let's talk of Everything! That's a bulletpoint of Nick's turtleface. I understand it is small, but I think you'll will just enjoy that the Nick's turtleface bulletpoint is available on the planet. True American may be the finest game ever, right? Do you know the rules? You Never Know! There's certainly not really a print-from the rules, though, so don't even request! "Damn it! I have been looking to get something choosing myself for any full hour. It's just like a taffy pull on the hot summer's day!" "Pipe talk's boring!" "Carol, he's really happy! He has got a 401k and flat stomach!Inch I understand I've stated this before, however i love Jess' and Cece's friendship. I additionally love how despite the fact that those are the primary ladies on the program, the rest of the ladies continue to be treated as people, the strange ones. I truly loved Winston's date in last night's episode I really hope she stays around. Jess playing around the apartment bored. THE ROBOT! Amazing. Melon mind Nick! Love the way in which Mike responded to Jess' and Nick's predicament as he showed up in the party. So not threatened. In a great way. But additionally type of inside a bad way? It felt just like a perfect navigation of this space by which someone is really awesome for by divine intention having faith in their partner, but can also be exactly that tiny bit too detached to determine some truth regarding their partner they ought to most likely have the ability to see. Mike is condemned, but it is not because he's terrible, or because Jess is terrible they are just less than right.[Seriously. I am warning you concerning the spoilers! Last chance!] Love how a show has handled the connection between Jess and Nick. It has been so thoughtful and thus honest. The figures happen to be permitted to speak candidly regarding their attraction to each other, and it is been this factor that's a part of their friendship. It is so refreshing to determine an arc like that one (and you never know where it is going Where's IT GOING?!) that eliminates the normal stupid conceit that certain individual is COMPLETELY Not aware the other is mooning frantically them over, after which you will find each one of these absurdly implausible conditions that have them apart interminably. The narrative of the relationship continues to be natural, and, most importantly, are both equally committed to it. THIS. &heartsDiscuss!

An Observation

One thing about tokenism in films (and tv shows) is it produces a good amount of popular culture media by which we do not see women (or people of other marginalized groups who're routinely tokenized) interacting. A very long time ago, I just read an item with a male film writer about how exactly he struggles to create multiple female figures because he isn't proficient at writing women interacting. He did not place it that can compare with that, but which was the gist. And thus failing to incorporate multiple female figures turns into a self-perpetuating cycle: There's not good good examples of ladies interacting in film, so (many) male authors don't understand how to write women getting together with one another.Which states something not altogether kind concerning the creative instinct among most screenwriters, they place their cues using their company films. It states something concerning the way women are regarded as culturally by (many) males: That we're mysterious, that we're an impenetrable and unrelatable monolith, our communication and interaction with one another in tangible existence is really inscrutable it cannot possible be deciphered and reproduced—all the stuff of terrible sitcoms starring dudes like Jim Belushi.Also it reflects a real possibility the patriarchy doesn't encourage (nor require) males to value engaging with females, especially women in groups. I do not think the male author who finds it hard to create multiple women hasn't seen, in tangible existence, his mother communicate with her mother, or together with his sister, or together with his wife, or had two female buddies possess a conversation before him, or experienced an expert setting with a minimum of two female co-workers.I simply imagine he's never prioritized having to pay attention.

Open Thread

Located by turnips.

Sunday Shuffle

Trevor Johnson y la Orquesta Sinfónica p Radio Televisión Española Last from the Mohicans suite (Primary Title/The Hug/Fort Fight/The surface of the World)What about you?

Two-Minute Nostalgia Sublime

Johnny Kemp: "Got Compensated"

Friday Blogaround

This blogaround introduced for you by designs.Suggested Reading through:Lyle: President's Appointment Energy CurbedAviva: CNN Anchor Methods Opponent of ladies in Combat to Endorse Racial Segregation [Content Note for misogyny and racism.]Erica: VictoryPaul: Obama's Second Chance: The Reelected Leader Has Gun Law as well as Global Warming in the Sights [Note: Should you read completely towards the very finish, you will notice a familiar title waxing repetitive about Obama as being a more powerful ally on reproductive privileges. GEE WHO Can It Be?!Pleased Place: If Downton Abbey Happened Positioned on Facebook: Season 3, Episode 3 [Content Note for the similar biases based in the episode.]And from Flyover Feminism's Roe Week [content note for fight against agency for the below posts]:Nicole Clark: Keeping the Belief within the Professional Choice MovementRobin Marty and Jessica Mason Pieklo: Kansas: "Notify Your Conscience Become Your Guide"Lily Bolourian: Roe v. Wade Anniversary: Why I'm Not Satisfied After 40 YearsAlicia Walters: Regulating Black Motherhood of all the AngleARROW: An Overview from the Condition of Abortion Over the Asian RegionLeave your links and proposals in comments...

Question of the Day

What movie character most reminds you of yourself? I do not always mean whom you seem like, although that might participate your selection, but with whom you most relate or with that you most identify.You will find areas of many characters—both comic and tragic, hero and villain—that feel totally familiar in my experience, however the character I usually have the probab is Diane Keaton's Carol Lipton in Manhattan Murder Mystery. That is strange in a single way, since i am almost not a thin, beautiful, wealthy New Yorker, but OMG the silliness, the breathless quest for a conspiracy by having an indulgent friend, the conscious enjoyment of letting herself get ended up, the dogged insistence, the woofing at her dubious husband to "Keep ringing!"—oh, Maude, I am laughing just considering it. "Should you recall, we solved a mysterious! Yep! We solved a mysterious once, remember? It had been the Noises within the Loft Mystery!"That's literally something I'd really tell Iain, because he attempted to face up to my dragging him into a different one of my "crackpot schemes."

Open Thread

Located with a rhino calf.

Downton Abbey Open Thread

Dear Bates: How's gaol? Everything still grey? Love, Anna.[Spoilers are telling secrets downstairs herein.]Oh the goings-on at Downton now! And also at Grey Gaol! ("Grey Gaol—where things are grey and also the gruel is grey-flavored!") Anna is sad because Bates is not writing her. And Bates is sad because Anna is not writing him. Immediately, I think that Thomas is in some way intercepting their letters and taking advantage of them as smoking papers, however it works out there's some non-Thomas-related gaol intrigue which i don't totally understand because I am not fluent in gaolmumble. Something something shiv inside a loofah, and also the letters start flowing again. Yay!Meanwhile, back at Downton, The almighty Whoops thinks that Matthew should have a look at Downton's finances, because Matthew "may have good quality ideas." Maybe! Like: Don't invest all of your money in one location! Or: Mayhaps we do not ALL have to put on gemstone-encrusted tiaras to dinner! Matthew is lucky there is a violent revolutionary in the household, so his dirty red-colored communism is just a blushing pink in comparison!Talking about: Tom Branson turns up at Downton's door seeking refuge after he assisted burn lower a castle in Ireland, however got sad as he recognized it had been really someone's home. Appears like we have had a solid contender for that title of The almighty Whoops once old Robert kicks the gold-plated bucket (also is filled with rubies and normally)! Everybody is mad that T-Bone left Sybil, who's an expectant LADY, to look after herself in their flat and then suggest her long ago to Downton by herself. There's a lot yelling about how exactly shitty T-Bone would be to abandon Sybil that everybody does not remember to yell at him to be a hypocrite who seeks refuge within the privilege and influence of Downton to safeguard him from being delivered to O'Gray Gaol for strongly revolutioning against privilege and influence. This person. Ugh.The only real factor worse than violent revolutionaries is electric toaster ovens, amirite? Something something Ethyl. I apologize, Ethyl! Your story is extremely sad, however i are only able to be committed to a lot of sub-plots, and that i spent my energy on Daisy and her surrogate father!Because Carson's precious toaster-disliking time has been adopted with responsibilities which are beneath him, The almighty Whoops, towards the seem of Matthew's grinding teeth, consents to allow Carson employ a new footman, who definitely are competing against Alfred inside a nail-biting round of Footmen: Beyond Thunderdome! to determine who will get first footman. The brand new guy is extremely handsome, and Alfred can't identify a bouillon spoon. Seriously, ALFRED! This is the simplest of all of the SPOONS!If Carson requested me to recognize all individuals spoons, I would have checked out him with wide eyes along with a stoic face and stated: "There's no spoon." And that he would have stated, "Nice Matrix reference, dipshit. That movie will not emerge for seven decades."ANYWAY.Finally, Lady Edith wants the election, and she or he pens a stern letter towards the editor about this, that is clearly an enormous scandal, because The almighty Whoops is tedious. But Matthew is happy with her, and she or he is certainly happy with herself, making me so happy! And she or he will get great advice in the Dowager Countess, who clearly had like 200 great sassy lines within this episode: "Edith, you are a lady having a brain and reasonable ability. Stop whining and discover something to complete!InchAnd that is when Lady Edith invented blogging! Discuss.[Please go to discuss everything Downton Abbey, only with the third episode of Season 3. Do not share things from later within the season, despite a spoiler warning, because I have reached mod the thread, which requires reading through everything. So be kind, if you are elsewhere on the planet in which the whole season has broadcast.]

Good News

Night time continues to be adopted.I'm not sure by whom, however the humane society up-to-date their Facebook page having a happy announcement that he's been taken home. I figured everybody who requested a follow-up want to know. Yay!

Prepare the Fainting Couches

[Content Note: Terrorism violence.]Hayes Brown at Think Progress—New Study Highlights Threat from Far Right-Wing Groups within the U . s . States:New research from the think tank attached to the West Point Military Academy highlights the threat of violent far-right actions within the U . s . States, resulting in the final outcome that, while diverse in within their causes, they're similar within their utilization of violence to attain their aims.West Point's Combatting Terrorism Center began as a direct consequence from the Sept. 11 attacks, and it has mainly focused its research on worldwide terrorist risks. Entitled "Competitors in the Sidelines: Understanding America's Violent Far-Right," this new report rather appears to be the danger that domestic groups pose towards the U.S. Wearing down such groups into three groups — the Racist/Whitened Supremacy Movement, the Anti-Federalist Movement, and also the Christian Fundamentalist Movement — enables the research to look at the backdrop ideologies and techniques of every subset completely, in opposition to lumping them altogether since many research has.Each one of the types within the study represent competing ideological sights, without them prone to cooperate in achieving their aims. The probabilities that all these groups uses violence also varies. The things they share, however, is really a utilization of violence against their selected targets — whether it is minority races or abortion treatment centers — to highlight and stress their given ideology. Naturally, conservatives happen to be refuting the research with great comebacks like: "The $64,000 dollar real question is when will the Combating Terrorism Center publish their study real left-wing terrorists such as the Animal Liberation Front, Earth Liberation Front, and also the Weather Subterranean?"That rhetorical is nearly TOO perfect.I'm not sure what else I'm able to say about rightwing eliminationist violence which i haven't already stated fully a million occasions. Deficiencies in empathy permitted to fester unchallenged will in the end be a violent urge. We can't indulge this toxic intolerance with stories of "each side get their extremists" as it were more.

Today in Perfect Solutions

[Content Note: Rape culture.]GOP Pollster: Stop Speaking about Rape:It's way activity: House Republicans have to stop speaking about rape.This is the message GOP congress came Wednesday evening from Kellyanne Conway, a high GOP pollster.Conway distributed the stern advice included in a polling presentation she made alongside fellow GOP pollsters David Winston — an agent to accommodate Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) — and Dork Sackett. The comment was referred to by a number of sources within the room.Conway stated rape is really a "four-letter word," and Republicans must stop speaking about this within their races for office.That's clearly only a perfect solution. Certainly keep the vile, ignorant, disgraceful, indecent, reprehensible, colossally contemptible attitudes and opinions about rape the identical, but simply don't tell anybody about this. Genius.

In The News

[Content note: Rape culture]Thurzday Newz:A prominent priest in Bridgeport was indicted on charges he was a part of a medication ring that conspired to market methamphetamine. Whut.Former Congressman Dennis Kucinich has became a member of the FOX News Funnel. Clearly.The Bay Area Board of Administrators is thinking about an offer to relabel Bay Area Airport Terminal (SFO) after Harvey Milk. Neat!John P Palma and Al Pacino will be to reunite for any biopic about Joe Paterno. Gross.Researchers around australia say they've designed a breakthrough that can lead to a possible remedy for Helps. The Marvel Comics super hero title X-Males is going to be relaunching in April by having an all-female team of figures. Neat!This is a Whitened House petition to formally recognize the Sasquatch. Okay then.Our new Defense Secretary is really a total badass, in the sounds from it.

Wednesday Blogaround

This blogaround introduced for you by crimson pens.Suggested Reading through:Lena: Where Congress Stands on GunsChauncey: Ten Items to Bear in mind When Speaking about Whitened Privilege in age Obama [Content Note: The publish only at that link includes discussion of whitened privilege, male privilege, and violence.]Digby: Anti-Choicism's Racist BirthTressie: Dear Parents, Just Humans. Signed, Society. [Content Note: The publish only at that link includes discussion of misogyny and reproductive regulating.]Jess: Well Controlled [Content Note: The publish only at that link includes discussion of guns.]Jorge: George Zimmerman's Lawyers Receive Trayvon Martin's School RecordsSusie: Sandy Aid Amendment Passes, But…Andy: Professional-Gay Episcopal Priest Selected to exchange Louie Giglio for Inauguration BenedictionTrudy: The Stunning Michelle Obama DollLife with Dogs: Dog Puppy Adopted by Paramedic Who Saved HerInfinity Imagined: An Evaluation of City Lights Captured pics of in the Worldwide Space Station and Nerves Imaged with Fluorescence MicroscopyLeave your links and proposals in comments...

Question of the Day

We have done that one before, although not for any loooooong time...Would you collect anything?I have never been a collector. I am too random and a little of the magpie, frankly. Very couple of physical things capture attention for longer periods. I'd the worst sticker-book within the fifth grade, since i just could not be arsed by using it after some time, despite the fact that I loved it in the beginning...We once had collapsing piles of books throughout our home, along with a substantial DVD collection, but we lately contributed about 80% of all things to some local charity, keeping just the books and flicks we imagined we'd be prone to revisit. It does not do anybody worthwhile just relaxing in our home gathering dust.The nearest factor I must an invaluable collection by design is my music stuff, although a large a part of what I'd collected was lost inside a ton over about ten years ago now. And thinking about everything and and cash I'd put in finding and collecting everything, I discovered it remarkably simple to release with little regret at its ruin.

Fatsronauts 101

Fatsronauts 101 is really a series by which I address presumptions and stereotypes about body fat people who treat us like a monolith and are utilized to dehumanize and marginalize us. If there's a stereotype you would like me to deal with, message me.[Content Note: Body fat prejudice bullying.]#16: You're helping body fat people by shaming them.No.-------------------------Formerly:#15: Body fat people hate getting their pictures taken.#14: All body fat individuals are unhealthy.#13: Body fat people looooooooooove Twinkies!#12: Body fat individuals don't like/need to see media representations of themselves.#11: Nobody wants to become body fat.#10: Body fat people need intervene within their lives. #9: Body fat individuals don't understand how they appear.Number8: Body fat individuals don't deserve anything nice.#7: Body fat individuals are permission slips for thin individuals to eat what they need.Number6: Any body fat person eating a salad or working out is attempting to slim down.#5: Body fat is axiomatically ugly.#4: Body fat people eat large numbers of food.#3: Body fat individuals are jolly/mean, and body fat individuals are shy/noisy.#2: I will tell how one eats constantly, due to the way they eat around me.#1: Everybody who's body fat is body fat for the similar reason.

An Observation

[Content Note: Rape culture.]I've become into numerous public debates with males, a number of them famous and/or influential males, about rape apologia, rape culture, and rape jokes. In most cases, these males were participating in denialism concerning the effects and/or perhaps fundamental information on this stuff.Each and every time, I request them exactly the same factor: The reason for so committed to protecting the rape culture?And each time, they provide no reply.

Mods Get to See the Darnedest Things

In reaction to my getting requested anyone to move ahead after departing a lot of comments promoting a look at violence which was not especially favorable to some safe space, because it was embedded with victim-accusing, came this thoughtful retort:Fine. Then prohibit me. You do not get it, and you won't want to discuss. Be as bossy as you would like, you've all of the energy here.Sorry my understanding is really deviant it causes all of you distress basically to understand more about it. I really will not have banned this individual, if my request to maneuver on have been respected, but, since zie requested, I happily obliged.But a tiresome discussion of moderation choices is clearly not why I published this comment for everybody to understand. I am talking about, hello:Be as bossy as you would like, you've all of the energy here.That? Is amazing.And That I actually want to thank this generous commenter for giving us the title for the lengthy-looked forward to and highly-anticipated by nobody debut album.Not visiting record stores in your area ever.

Assvertising

[Content Note: Rape culture.]I have been meaning for age range to publish relating to this Condition Farm advert, that we see constantly, and makes my teeth grind every damn time. Because of Spudsy for telling me:On the residential city street, a youthful thin black guy (named Mike) stands in the curb alongside a wrecked vehicle together with his cell phone in the hands. A youthful thin blonde whitened lady (who is not given a title, but we'll call her Jane) walks as much as him. Text onscreen: "Condition of Disbelief."Jane: Oh hey, Mike! What're you as much as?Paul: [sighs] Ahhh just diagramming this accident with my Condition Farm pocket agent application. You may also obtain a quote and pay your premium with this particular factor.Jane: I figured Condition Farm did not have individuals applications.Mike: Where'd you hear that?Jane: The web.Paul: And also you thought it?Jane: Yeah. They cannot put anything on the web that is not true.Mike: Where's you hear that?In symphony: The web!A youthful, schlubby whitened guy by having an ungroomed beard and eyeglasses, putting on a fanny pack, and looking for a haircut walks toward them.Jane: Oh look—here's my date. I met him on the web. He's a French model.Dude: Uhhhhhh bon jour. [stated with no hint of the French accent]The man puts his arm around Jane, grins at Mike, after which leads Jane away. Mike quietly watches them go. Blah blah voice-over about how exactly awesome Condition Farms applications are.Now you will find a myriad of tired tropes within this advert: Blonde whitened women are stupid and/or naive and/or shallow women do not understand technology everybody you meet on the web is creepy beautiful women never date "ugly" males etc. But the one thing I truly hate about it is primarily the moment, the following:At that time, we all know the guy that has showed up to consider Jane on the date is really a liar that has altered her right into a date with false information—and the having faith in Jane is obviously too naïve to identify nakedly fraudulent claims. So that as he provides a skeevy grin to Mike, Jane's neighbor and apparent friend, that conveys his intentions, Mike basically gazes back at him nonchalantly.Because that is what men do, amirite? Bros before hos. I am talking about, shit, it's such as the hugest breach from the Guy Code ever to cockblock an overall total stranger who's almost going to rape your friend.All this is performed for laughs. And also the context that should be funny is really a rape culture that informs the damnable lies that coercive sex isn't rape, that rape is vanishingly rare, this scenario is absurd, that it's to date taken off any reality it's okay to laugh in the creepy guy who's tempting Jane on the date under false pretenses.Yeah. In some way I am not laughing.

Daily Dose of Cute

Zelda and DudleyI pointed out yesterday that Dudley includes a hurty feet. It really appears to become a re-injuries of the torn ligament in the front ankle, and he's walking very gingerly. He's also getting trouble leaning lower to consume, most probably since it puts weight on and stretches his leg in ways that affects him, so I have been holding his food bowl at feeding some time and water bowl several occasions during the day on my small lap, the perfect height for him. Also, he appears to locate it reassuring to become close while he's feeling yucky.Last evening, I had been holding his food bowl as they ate dinner, and, in typical fashion, he coughed and dispersed food all around the floor. Normally, as he performs this, he immediately cleans in the mess themself, while he is really a great boy, so he began circling the meals on the ground, tentatively leaning toward it as being he contacted it from different angles, however it was clearly too hurty for him to lean lower for this."It's okay," I told him, itching his mind. "You are able to let it rest.InchHe checked out me having a sad expression. I apologize. I drawn him right into a tight hug and told him he would be a good boy. I offered him his half-finished dinner again. He looked forlornly in the food on the ground. Zelda, sitting inside my side, was watching all this together with her usual intensity. She walked over and ate the meals up and running, then play-bowed at Dudley and thrown her mind in direction of his food bowl, still within my hands.Dudley came back to complete his dinner.

Seen

[Image description: A stark billboard in western Maryland reading through "I miss hearing you say 'Merry Christmas' — Jesus."]Yeah, sure, that's certainly something Jesus could be bothered by. Not too stuff about how exactly we do not feed poor people or don't look after the sick or the way we use his title to warrant a myriad of bigotry. He's just pissed we are really not honoring his birthday. Right? There is certainly no Christmas this season, I am certain from it.

Two-Minute Nostalgia Sublime

David Bowie: "Where Shall We Be Now?"

Sunday Shuffle

Rock Sugar, Don't Steer clear of the SandmanI hope this year includes exactly what you like and love, Shakers! Rock Sugar, Shook Me Just Like A Prayer

Open Thread

Located by colorful cauliflower.This week's Open Threads happen to be located by abnormally colorful veggies. (And Rosie.)

Question of the Day

What is the last little bit of personal teaspooning that you simply did? That could mean something you probably did on your own (e.g. giving yourself permission not to indulge internalized negative texting) or something like that you probably did for/with another person (e.g. presenting a body fat-hater to HAES or helping a buddy in financial need).

Two-Minute Nostalgia Sublime

Kirsty MacColl: "Walking Lower Madison"

Question of the Day

Have you make any New Year's resolutions? If that's the case, what were they and how's it going doing to date?Irrrve never make New Year's resolutions, because after i decide to behave, I simply get it done, and when I am putting something off, no arbitrary day will finish my persistent stalling. This past year, I stated: "Should there be anything I really hope to do this year, though, it's to obtain my chronic laundry disorganization in check. Spoiler Alert: This can never happen!"' ' You Know What?! It did not!Thus, the aim continues to be same. You?

Daily Dose of Cute

A pic, in climbing age order, of each one of the five furry citizens of Shakes Manor taken throughout our holiday, that was an attractive staycation throughout which we did a variety of around-the-house projects:Zelda intently contemplates whether she's, actually, a great girl.Dudley: Large as well as in charge.Sophie snuggles with Kenny Blogginz.Olivia: One little brown earsie and something little pink earsie.Matilda was soooooo hung over on New Year's Day. "Ensure that it stays lower, Two-Legs!"

Two-Minute Nostalgia Sublime

Def Leppard: "Pour Some Sugar On Me"

Here Is the First Picture of Tom Hardy as Mad Max

You are welcome.Iain sent me the hyperlink for this, knowing well my preoccupation with Tom Sturdy. Once I made the expected inappropriate comments to create Iain laugh, I stated, "In most importance, that appears great. And despite my general suspicion and reflexive bitterness of remakes, I'm going to be happy to have a brand new Mad Max that does not star a vile anti-Semite." That Iain responded, "Yeah, I really like individuals movies. Happy using the casting. Sturdy is badass."Totes.