A guy sitting behind us in the audience heard me talking to my mother about a certain portrayal of Malvolio, and proceeded to mansplain the most incredibly basic plot summary of Twelfth Night (the play) to my mother, who wrote her Ph.D. dissertation on Shakespeare. Right after the…Â
At a holiday party, the HR rep may have had one too many. She let it drop that she had been actively recruiting women because the males she hired had been complaining about the lack of a good dating pool in the smallish town we all had to relocate to. I told her that I was a lesbian,…Â
First time I've been able to listen to the tune all the way through, given how the rape-positive the original lyrics are. It's actually a good tune!
What has poor Hermione done to be saddled with a jealous, shiftless, not-very-intelligent boy with zero work ethic, a major inferiority complex, and a highly unreliable nature?
#1 should have been Lavender. At least she was at Won-Won's intellectual level.
Not a single item about anything to do with actual code, development, heck, even scripting/theming or support. (Fair disclosure, I'm a DBA and consider what I do 'tech lite'.) This is written for end users, not techies.
No, just no. Where are the muscles? Where is the steely-eyed stare? Where is the warrior who spent her entire childhood learning to fight, for pete's sake? I can't see this girl swinging a lasso, let alone a sword.
Sorry, Miss Gadot, but you need to seriously bulk up before…Â
When I was about 4, I had heard of the 'water cycle' - you know, water on the ground evaporates and becomes clouds, then rain, then it's water on the ground again. I also knew about ice (I lived in Tucson, AZ).
I figured that when the water got really tired, it turned…Â
Apparently, they missed the fact that the author is a known anti-equal rights donor and activist. Biggest influence on my decision about whether to go see it - I don't want to indirectly contribute money to his causes.
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