I’m not saying that this perspective is wrong exactly but there’s a gender dimension completely absent from this analysis. It interests me that so many people find themselves identifying with the man we’re following around and not the wife he was abusing
If you told Killers from the Osage perspective, the non-Osage audience would directly identify with them.
By keeping Burkhart as the protagonist, Scorsese prevents this.
Then, using the old Cowboys-vs-Indians structure, Scorsese indicts us to show who the actual savages are.
The "blue shift" in Pennsylvania is going to launch 10 million conspiracy theories and it was 100% avoidable had legislators just copied Ohio's notes and let them process ballots early.
@BudrykZack
@revhowardarson
I feel like all of my autistic friends have stories that basically go "I did something harmless and well intentioned and somebody flipped the fuck out" and it’s made this whole Discourse especially bizarre
@punished_cait
Is this the same subreddit that used to have regular debates about whether it was necessary to wear sunscreen to bed because some light might come in through your blackout curtains before you can get up and apply your sunscreen
@lingerie_addict
In retrospect a lot of the features of LiveJournal made it a great person to be a young person online. No algorithm, relatively siloed users, and lots of privacy options for your posts
@offbeatorbit
It sucks that lots of black families have interesting stories about internal migration within the US but that’s not what people mean they ask where a person's ancestors are from
@mollyhc
I find it interesting that your assumption is that white, middle class children aren’t gifted, rather than that gifted POC and working class children are under-identified and under-resourced.
@punished_cait
The way that Twitter seemingly can’t tell the difference between a grown ass 21 year old woman and a 12 year old girl creeps me the fuck out
@amyliztweets
When I first started taking antidepressants in 2008, my doctor deliberately declined to officially diagnose me with major depressive disorder in an attempt to avoid me being declined insurance in the future. Her notes say I had "slightly depressed mood"
@offbeatorbit
I love how these girlies are telling themselves they’re drinking water and that’s virtuous when in reality they’re making custom diet soda
@Hawthorne_Rob4
In all seriousness the reason this is a bad idea is that it’s hard to know what compromises you’re willing to make when you’re looking at a list of abstractions and not an actual person
For all you know there’s a college dropout with a shellfish allergy who’s perfect for you
@golikehellmachi
I’d bet $10 "You don’t feel right" was a tactic the shelter worker used to have to avoid a deeply unpleasant discussion about whatever red flag he displayed
@benshapiro
I would be grateful that Dr. Smith, PhD in musicology, called 911, which is almost certainly the same thing that your doctor wife would do.
Or do you think that oncologists regularly treat stroke victims at dinner parties instead of getting to the ER?
@drvolts
These stories always make me think of my worst uncle, who my mom cut off not so much bc she disagrees with him about politics but bc he refused to stop picking fights with her about politics no matter how many times she asked him not to
@cmclymer
Ah yes, protecting women and girls by *checks notes* subjecting them to medically unnecessary medical examinations.
It’s not like there’s a very recent history of situations like this being used to sexually abuse girls or anything.
@theoceanblooms
But have you considered that if a fictional person tries to change and do better, someone somewhere may think that the bad things they did are okay?
I’m making an NFT’s for peace collection dropping next week. 25% to Israel 25% to Palestine and 50% for me and my team.
Message me for the discord so you can reserve yours now.
Here’s a few examples of the art. Peace in the Middle East apes. Can’t we all just get along?
What big brain on the president's staff decided to combine this phallic image with a cover of the song about how Leonard Cohen wants to fuck like King David?
@KBAndersen
I have an MA in English and would like to emphasize that the problem here is not the academic jargon, which is annoying but can be learned, but the terribly-constructed sentences.
@SirSnufflington
@Ida_Clemens
The note in its entirety is not an admission of guilt
The contention that deaths stopped when she was gone is not accurate and would not be proof that she’d killed anyone even if it was
It does not strike me as particularly weird to keep mementos of dead patients
@clapifyoulikeme
The thing that’s especially annoying about this is that today is fucking Palm Sunday, one of the most important days in the Christian liturgical calendar and it is traditionally celebrated with a great deal of pageantry. Like, wave some palms like a normal Christian, lady
@A_B_Allen
It would be more accurate to say that they believed they were in a race with the Nazis. The Nazis weren’t anywhere near developing nuclear capabilities but the Allies believed they were
@punished_cait
"Mastodon will be much healthier"
My brother in Christ if I wanted to do something healthy I would go for a bike ride or read a book. When I want Twitter, I want garbage
@_glorianas
Also weirdly feeds into a myth of Native American helplessness when there were in fact lots of times and places in American history where Native Americans were violently resisting white settlement
@boneysoups
The "corsets weren’t uncomfortable" thing has always been strange to me because is there any article of clothing on earth that is not potentially uncomfortable? Like no one ever had a corset that was ill-fitting or unsuited to their activities or just felt tired after a long day
TFW you see a location trending and think "oh no, was there a mass shooting?" but it’s just Spotify Wrapped telling everyone they have San Luis Obispo vibes
@offbeatorbit
Yeah like, regardless of whether I think it’s reasonable, "holy crap what’s wrong with you" is going to be the reaction of half the guests
@Andr3jH
@Noahpinion
Tbh I feel like "it’s gay to have sex with women, the straightest thing you can do is be abstinent" is a sentiment Hitler might have endorsed, at least as a young man
@godlessspinster
The root problem here is assuming that the goal of feminism is making individual women feel empowered and not legal, social, and economic equality for all women 🤷🏻♀️
@offbeatorbit
I am sick to death of this Discourse where a customer treats a service worker poorly, and a bunch of people rush in to invent a scenario where the customer was neurodivergent so it was Fine, Actually
@AlecStapp
@MattBruenig
Some Democrats: here is an imperfect policy that can provide stimulus through executive action in the likely event that the GOP controls the Senate.
Very Smart People: Democrats should pass this bill instead.
@Ida_Clemens
@SirSnufflington
She wouldn’t even be the first healthcare worker wrongfully convicted of serial murder because of the Texas sharpshooter fallacy, but people just keep repeating it as though it’s proof she’s guilty. Infuriating
@MattZeitlin
It doesn’t help that so much meal planning content is like make a giant batch of something, put it in 5 containers, and have it every day for a week
@danlehnermusic
@fallenigloos
Considering how vague US media is usually about West Bank settlers, letting one of them loudly say "we are fanatics with repugnant beliefs" seems very useful to me
@JakeAnbinder
As someone who used to run workshops to teach undergraduates how to avoid exactly the kind of plagiarism she was doing, watching a bunch of tenured scholars defend it has been kind of a mindfuck
@dylanmatt
I didn’t think that "we did a lot of fucked up shit defeating the most destructive states in human history" was a particularly nuanced take and yet
I get why people love this casting but I personally am so sick of watching young actresses be subjected to avalanches of racist abuse for the sake of mid-at-best movies. In this case it’s for a movie that doesn’t even exist
@LemieuxLGM
For the purposes of The Online Discourse, the PMC = people whose jobs I consider dumb and bougie, unlike the True Working Class, who do cool, masculine things like mining coal and having a podcast
@vanillatary
Tipping is a terrible system, but it’s a terrible system because it lets every customer become a petty tyrant, not because customers pay more. In a system where restaurant customers didn’t tip, that $140 would simply be a part of the bill.
@leftistlitwick
Oh man, she really thinks that state communism is like the anarchy-commune growing 3 tomato plants that falls apart after the one woman who does the dishes moves out
@ShadowTodd
Shocking that Pitchfork, a publication I was reading in 2010 so I could find out about hipster music before all my friends, did not like Katy Perry
@offbeatorbit
Kent State was not really a school shooting in the way that people usually talk about those anyway?? Like the National Guard gunned down a bunch of protesters? That is pretty unique in American history idk
Joyce Carol Oates shouldn't have written Blonde. What could a literary non-hottie know about the exploitation of femme, highly sexualized women - women who look and act like Oates have no compassion or love for women like Marilyn. They're just as bad as men at writing them.
@offbeatorbit
The real reason that Voldemort never figured out Snape was a spy was that he read Snape's mind during that conversation and vowed never to do it again
@lingerie_addict
They look p dumb w/ the mix of knit and crochet and the weightlessness. As with most AI art, I think a real human designer would do something much cooler with the concept, but the concept is kinda dumb so it’s not worth the time and money executing it well would require
@offbeatorbit
Lol some people on here sometimes say stuff that’s so revealing of their narrow life experience. Assuming every 19 yo is in college and every 22 just started their first job and is done w/ college like there aren’t tons of 19 and 22 yos hanging out after their shift at Applebees
@revhowardarson
A lot of people on here appear to believe that if your cause is just, you are exempt from developing a strategy and assessing whether or not your tactics are working