Tea Party 2 comments
debbidownr
· 5 years ago
Private versus industrial rules
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Sharbat Gula, left on the cover of National Geographic in 1985, and then nearly two 2 comments
debbidownr
· 5 years ago
She didn’t want her picture taken; that’s why she looks mad. Stop posting it.
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I choose gamer 3 comments
It's only just hit me, fuk 3 comments
debbidownr
· 5 years ago
Date is a type of activity, not a new social interaction. You can do this!!
A dad is letting his daughter into the gaming universe right from the beginning 18 comments
debbidownr
· 5 years ago
*bringing, not *letting (There’s no barrier to entry. You just pick up a controller. He’s encouraging an interest, not moderating access.)
Needs to be said 10 comments
debbidownr
· 5 years ago
Look, you want girls to be one thing - fine. But you’re ignorant in addition to being wrong.
How true 47 comments
debbidownr
· 5 years ago
This meme is true in that failing to learn what a term means (explained brilliantly by guest earlier) and then villifying it is very irritating to feminists.
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It takes a village 5 comments
Idiots trying to take down a tree 1 comments
debbidownr
· 5 years ago
This level of laziness in the planning phase is epic, and I relate SO HARD in my soul. They could have dug around the roots. They could have used the pickup truck. Naw, son. “Look, we’ll lasso that sucker and it’ll fall. Easy-peasy.” Perfection.
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But no Mushu :/ 11 comments
debbidownr
· 5 years ago
Yes, I know Mulan is Asian. In my experience, only people who look like me (white) are whining endlessly. Endlessly and irritatingly. Just don’t. I’m not a good advocate for all this; many other people have said it better. But come on? Just shut up? Please?
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But no Mushu :/ 11 comments
debbidownr
· 5 years ago
“Diversity” is the default, not the outlier. They didn’t create worlds just for them. The world you grew up in was the created thing. I don’t blame you; I grew up the same. But you got to get past this notion that the stage belongs to your color. It never did. It doesn’t now. It’s a vicious and dreadful lie. It causes people to think their opinion holds an unequal weight and their voice and perspective should be given pride of place. That’s all wrong. It’s a product of your raising (mine too) but it’s wrong. Don’t hide in semantics. Acknowledge the past and let this focus on your color go.
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But no Mushu :/ 11 comments
debbidownr
· 5 years ago
I am struggling so hard to think of anything more stupid than being upset about remake casting. Being upset about no 1% whipping cream at Starbucks, maybe? Well, that directly affects something you came in to buy so not quiiiiiite as stupid. Coming to blows over the exact composition of a neighboring galaxy? Feeling like the grass should be a different shade of green at a neighborhood park? I dunno. There just HAS to be something more self-involvedly asinine, but I can’t think of it.
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Us white people after finding out yet another white character has been blackwashed 10 comments
debbidownr
· 5 years ago
People complaining because Ariel “is” white, that’s the truth. So there’s a focus on truth as the basis, yeah? Why doesn’t that apply to history which is full of such wrong attributions and erasure of real people? See, it’s because it’s not about truth. It’s about whiteness. Which, as a white person, I find super irritating. You have the whole internet and free libraries. Learn something so you have some sort of context for how much of a nonissue this is. Then shush
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Us white people after finding out yet another white character has been blackwashed 10 comments
debbidownr
· 5 years ago
Ugh, until the people whining about not keeping to a character’s “true self” can give a 20 minute monologue on appropriation, dismissal and outright lying throughout the US history, all I hear is blah-blah-blah. I was raised in the US, but some things just don’t add up. I figured out just a little bit. I’m not patient with people who won’t even try, except to try to maintain a status quo that never was.
Theiyr're so stupid 10 comments
debbidownr
· 5 years ago
There - a location (think about ‘here’, which is spelled similarly. ‘There’ is not ‘here’, as in the phrase “here and there”)
They’re - They are. It’s a contraction (two words pushed together, like I’m [I am]. It’s got the apostrophe in the middle to remind you to check if it could be written as two words instead).
Their - possessive third person (their house, their car, their terrible dancing skills). There’s not a handy way to remember ‘their’. You just gotta memorize it. (Uhm, accidental usage of there’s: notice you can pull it apart because of the apostrophe. ‘There’s’ is right because it can be written as ‘there is’. ‘Theirs’ would be wrong because no apostrophe. ‘They’re is wrong because when you pull it apart to ‘they are’, the sentence doesn’t work).
On the plus side, ‘they’re’ doesn’t come up much in writing. You can skip it forever, just use ‘they are’. Then you only need to remember there/their and there’s/theirs. Your post is excellent; don’t be so hard on yourself
They’re - They are. It’s a contraction (two words pushed together, like I’m [I am]. It’s got the apostrophe in the middle to remind you to check if it could be written as two words instead).
Their - possessive third person (their house, their car, their terrible dancing skills). There’s not a handy way to remember ‘their’. You just gotta memorize it. (Uhm, accidental usage of there’s: notice you can pull it apart because of the apostrophe. ‘There’s’ is right because it can be written as ‘there is’. ‘Theirs’ would be wrong because no apostrophe. ‘They’re is wrong because when you pull it apart to ‘they are’, the sentence doesn’t work).
On the plus side, ‘they’re’ doesn’t come up much in writing. You can skip it forever, just use ‘they are’. Then you only need to remember there/their and there’s/theirs. Your post is excellent; don’t be so hard on yourself
