That Moment...

Sorry, but that trailer is super mediocre.

 

TMW you read about Han Solo's wife in some comic book, and it's canon, and entire swaths of the fandom are ready to murder other swaths of the fandom that don't agree with how they feel about this and...

What?

Seriously?

This matters to you?
FFS....

 

That moment when your friend asks you to proofread her resume ...

 

Welcome to fandom, Wrey. Where fans will treat anything that goes against their head-canon as a crime against humanity and nature itself.

 

That moment when you hang out with a kitty and suddenly you have an all-consuming desire to bring it home with you (the owner doesn't really want it, anyways).

 

And so you take it home with you and live happily ever after ... ?

 

That moment when old friend of the family who you haven't seen in years posts pictures of himself on Facebook all dressed up as a woman with lipstick, a dress, stuffed bra and the entire package. Then the moment where you wonder if they reconsidered what they'd done by taking it down ten minutes later.

Huh.....

 

TMW you think that instead having a normal job, maybe you should try founding your own religion and offering it to Hollywood actors as an alternative to scientology.

 

Love your username

that moment when on a girlie night out a friend asks you what you would say if your son told you he was gay.
"Hug him and say he is still your son and you love him whatever"

Edit: I forgot to say: I later found out her son was gay.

 

TMW...

On another forum discussing why the media is ass-deep in white male heroes (my ethnicity and sex), a poster bluntly says that minorities are insignificant and what they say means nothing.

Hooo boy, we've a long way to go before we reach equality...

#ashamed

 

Actually, legally speaking, I'm not sure how this affects equality at all. That's just this guys thoughts, and as long as he follows the rules and does not discriminate, should not affect another's persons ability to succeed in life.

Cops wearing cameras, high inheritance tax, wall street guys behind bars, equal public school systems. Those things would affect equality.

 

Business meeting.

Guy A disses minority group X.

Guy B says "I'm minority group X."

Guy A says "Yes, but you're practically one of us."

The kicker is that Guy A was the HR manager, so had a say in the hiring process. And he probably would discriminate and then weasel around the legality. With a mentality like that, we're a long way from equality.

 

All you can do is enforce laws and educate. Unless you condone thought control?

I just find it interesting how people on the Internet constantly complain about what other people think/say(especially on the Internet) , yet seldom do I ever see any legitimate complaints on inequality, like nepotism, or poor education systems.

 

The point was that I thought the video game industry ought to include diversity via main characters who aren't white dudes, yet that poster thought I was pandering to the 'PC crowd'.

I'm a white guy. Sometimes I don't want to play as white guys, I want to play as someone else and I'm sure non-white guys/ladies of all colors would appreciate a video game that acknowledges that they exist as something more than secondary characters/macguffins.

 

Yeah it's the same in movies.

 

TMWYR posts are society's way of dealing with blatant contradictions in the system, and that some of the GOP nominees exist to wrangle undecideds because of their "appeal."

 

Thank you! No other character have I related to more.

 

It's not even remotely that simple.

Equality is far more than legality, because without the proper mindset regarding it, those people who view minorities and women as lesser-than will continue to vote in accordance with their mindset. Another issue to consider is the enormous role media has in influencing this thought process. We live in a capitalist society where the consumer creates demand and corporations deliver based on it -- this fellow here is a consumer driving demand.

Why are there so few minorities and female heroins in movies and video games? People like him don't want to see equality in the media, and a lot of minorities and women have a hard time seeing themselves in these roles because it's rarely portrayed as such in the media (not to mention that gender roles and classism in the media tell them they shouldn't be playing video games or seeking out further education anyway).

It's a vicious, blurry, gray cycle.

Media companies make decisions based on the consumer >> the majority consumer prefers to see themselves (white male) as heroes because they can't relate to minorities >> no one sees diversity represented in the media >> people have a difficult time grasping what equality looks like >> people don't vote in favor of equality >> repeat.

 

TMW.... this thread needs to get back onto its silly, inane, innocuous, lighthearted, no-deeper-than-Joey-from-Friends track. Silly as it may it may be, silly it was meant to be.

 

TMW ... you get carried away Sorry.

 

TMW when you wonder why Wreybies didn't pick Pheobe as an example instead ... ~_~
(Sorry couldn't help it)

 

That moment when you realize you can now trip out people with Heinz mustard and French's ketchup.

 

TMW one must admit that the reason is no deeper than the fact that Joey was hot in the eyes of Wreybies, thus the one who came to mind first.

 

All this inequality stuff is depressingly complicated.

 

TMW the next time you see Matt leBlanc is in Episodes