men who drive fucking gigantic shiny pickups that they obviously just have as ego-boosters who fucking tailgate you on an empty stretch of freeway at night and they’ve replaced their headlights with fucking military-grade 500 proton scatter billion lumen searchlights that they fucking utterly blind you with while honking for you to get out of your lane because they just desperately have to go a full 40 miles over the speed limit or their dick will just jump clean off their balls and hurl itself out their window in shame
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.
So Minnesotans showed the fuck up tonight (like we do) – thousands in the street protesting tr*mp’s latest executive disorders. And guess what happened? The old proverb “What if an emergency vehicle needs to get where it’s going” came to life, and the sea went silent and parted to allow it through (swiftly…literally the truck was going about as fast as, if not faster than, it would have been if there had been cars it needed to go around).
Please share this. This was a rare occurrence where an emergency vehicle needed to go through the route of a protest, when usually they have predetermined alternative routes, and it went completely fine. Also for the love of god, have more respect for firefighters/EMTs…they know how to do their jobs. They’re ready for anything, including working around protests.
So folks can stop using that tired old argument now (not that it was ever backed up by sources anyway).
It’s almost as though these protesters who are protesting for human rights are decent human people.
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