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What if the Starks didn’t make stupid decisions? x
“Okay, I won’t trust you then”
this is the most beautiful thing i’ve ever seen
I believe what I said was “wiggly, sticky, baby thing.” I have found that there are lots of different things different children can be: Loud, adorable, terrible, violent, peculiar, insightful…but the one thing that they invariably are is sticky.
There are few children I adore, but I shall use this phrase to describe them with all my heart. And my superior temporal gyrus.
Me: So when you see the 4 year old boy pull the little girl’s hair…
Students: He likes her!
Me: Now they are around 11 or 12 and he grabs her arm and wrestles her to the ground even though she calls him a jerk and yells at him to leave her alone.
Students: That is just how boys are.
Me: Now they are 18 and he grabs her arm and–
Students: Oh, that’s not okay.
Me: Really? How would he know? How would she know? How would you know? You just told me that for the first 17 years of these children’s lives that you thought it was cute, sweet, and natural for a boy to grab a girl and be rough with her.
Students: Oh.
Me: Oh, is right.
We love classic Trek, because, there, Kirk is not a womanizer.
This is part of why this episode disturbed me so much. Because it’s almost fifty years later and this isn’t part of the Captain Kirk character that makes it into the remakes. Because there’s nothing alien at all to me about Charlie’s anger, how he lashes out with horrific consequenses at the women around him who don’t immediately return his affections and dare to enjoy the company of other men (and with the exception of the man he disappears in the gym all his victims that we see are women).
Almost fifty years, and all I can think about when I watch this is how this one scene from this one episode of a low-budget space show with women in revealing costumes and its own share of problematic shit is more up front and no-nonsense about telling teenage boys and the men they grow up to be that your feelings do not trump the feelings of women than the overwhelming majority of the rest of our popular culture today.
Reblogging again for that comment.
The Girls Of Adventure Time [Cosplay]
Marceline, Fionna, and Princess Bubblegum cosplay
Wow! Well done!
The internet is a weird and fun place.
After seven Bluth-less years the wait is finally over, and Hypable is here to help you celebrate Arrested Development’s season 4 with a sugar rush. Check out the show’s drinking game here.
i’m lookin at you, laura and louisa
I don’t think anyone could match her drink for drink.
