kellyaster

kellyaster, 5 months ago

honestly, my only issue was the off-message, sexist and unnecessary ‘men can’t let go of things’ jibe at the end of the episode.

I realize you probably didn't mean to do this, but this comes across as a red herring logical fallacy. I mean, I sincerely do hear you, but it's difficult to take seriously since it comes across as dismissive and diversionary. The right wing is fond of doing that very thing with its whatabout-isms, which unfortunately is a real effective way of changing the conversation with a distraction. Again, I hear you and I don't think you're lying, but that's not what this article is about.

kellyaster, 5 months ago

I remember this one. Yeah, that one was tough, I never bothered to pick it up again after I beat it. The og Zelda and LTTP for sure, multiple times, but not Zelda II. I mean, I remember liking it, but it just didn't scratch that itch the way the top-down adventuring style did, ya know?

That said, congrats! A hero is you!

kellyaster, 5 months ago

I'm just trying to process this. Do I have this right? Bridget Ziegler, one three founders of Moms for Liberty (a right wing extremist group trying to erase all references about queer people, discrimination, and racism from public schools), has consensual sex with women and her husband rapes them?

I mean, wow. Is she running for president or something?

kellyaster, 5 months ago

Hear hear! I used to grind beans with a regular old blade grinder, and the resulting grounds were always really inconsistent; half of it would end up really dine, almost like a powder, and it would take forever to brew and would sometimes clog the filter. The burr grinder I picked up cost more, but it was worth it. I'm never going back, blade grinders suck.

kellyaster, 5 months ago

I feel empathy for her, but only a tiny bit. Her political party: (1) supports political violence, (2) commits most of it, and (3) in general commits a majority of the crime in the country. This is not an opinion, it's documented fact. Violence is the conservative party's M.O. I don't mean to victim blame, but when you willingly associate with violent psychopaths on a daily basis, violence is inevitable. It was just a matter of time before some dipshit put his hands on her.

kellyaster, 5 months ago

Yeah. I don't think she was "asking for it" or "deserves it" either. That's the kind of language and mentality used by people like Richard McCormick, the man who assaulted her, and I can't get behind that. Because once we start cheering violence against women (even the evil ones who call for violence themselves), we effectively become part of the problem. We must do better.

kellyaster, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

In case people don't know, JK Rowling's pen name is a reference to Robert Galbraith Heath, a psychiatrist who experimented with gay conversion therapy in the 60s and 70s using surgically implanted electrodes on gay men's brains. He claims to have "cured" one of them. He did lots of other fucked up things too, and of course Rowling denies her pen name has anything to do with him. FWIW, she also claims she's not a bigot, but her words and actions clearly indicate otherwise.

kellyaster, 5 months ago

Her pen name is "Robert Galbraith"

kellyaster, 5 months ago

I read that as "Tucker Carlson's former top predator"

I guess it still fits