Made a joke on the bus just now asking if we had decided to vote off all the men (I'm on the cast bus where we've got 7 women and 2 men) then the gay man was like, "Do I count as a man?"
Bro.
Why are these words happening?
Has homophobia made a 180?
I said, "You certainly count as a man." And he was good-naturedly offended... I think...
Overheard in the hallway: "I like Turtle because she says no to the dumb things the Director of Production asks for."
Do I though? I thought I was proposing alternative ideas. Am I going to get myself fired? 😂
Yeah. I know one woman who decided she was going to leave her teaching job in China. She basically had to smuggle herself out of there. The plane ticket she bought for herself mysteriously ceased to exist. Luckily her mom was able to buy her one while she was at the airport.
Meanwhile in Saudi people I know are like "yeah it's super nice, they keep you in a compound!" Bruh. I'm not going anywhere where I need to be kept in a compound.
Many American women I know are accepting tours or shows that take place in China or the Middle East. And now I'm just thinking... am I the only one who has concerns about going there? Particularly for extended periods of time? Idk, I guess I'm hesitant to travel to where, on any given day, things outside of my control could make having an American passport very risky business. Said the same thing about Russia prior to the current war over there.
I would’ve needed to be arrested to be an icon but unfortunately was too well behaved to do so. My first chance to cause an international incident and I dropped the ball!
The propaganda film we watched in there wasn’t even good. Didn’t hit the way American propaganda does. 🦅
That sounds on brand lol. I know these two women in particular who live together now but even before they moved in together they seemed to go out of their way to be miserable 24/7. Complaining about everything yet doing nothing about it. Anyway, now they both don't have jobs, claim to be too anxious to even consider searching for new ones because "why rush to be exploited workers again?", and their families are both paying their NYC rents. Then they both message me separately about how much they dislike the other. I am looking forward to the conclusion of this particular storyline.
I've noticed that all the people I knew in college who now claim to be communists are all the people who... are not very community friendly. As in, they never pull their own weight in a group setting and they always want their own separate everything (bedroom, bathroom, kitchen... house... popcorn at the movies). But then on top of that they don't want to go to work anymore because "it's a capitalist scam."
I'm no expert on communism, but I'm pretty sure even in a communist utopia you can't just sit around all day.
I had thought the US and Russia split up Germany because after Hitler failed at taking over the world everyone was like "this sounds like a good opportunity!" And then assumed they built a wall because of the whole communism thing. Then assumed the reason people wanted the wall down was because however the Russian side was running things made it so nobody had food.
I know a woman who is from East Germany but then she came to the US as like... a babysitter or something? Freshly 18. Then she married the guy who is 20 years older than her. They're still married today and she seems jazzed about the whole thing but when she was telling me the story I was thinking "this sounds highly suspicious."
I went onto LL Bean to buy things for tour then I realized I actually don't need more clothes this time. I have successfully stockpiled for every weather scenario.
Come at me, North Dakota.
I thought everyone knew Russel Brand was a creep and that the only reason he wasn't in jail is because he's famous. Like I guess I thought the massive online blowup of today already happened years ago. I guess not. Tbh I don't even know what he's in trouble for right now but I assume it has something to do with him being a creep.
Upon reflection, I think it's pretty bizarre that at the international relations summer camp I went to, they decided to take us all to the Saudi Arabian embassy for a day. Like... out of all the embassies in Washington DC. And I got so bent out of shape when we got taken into this auditorium area and the dude was like "boys can sit in the front and girls will sit in the back." I was half on my way to full Rosa Parks until the camp teacher was like "Turtle you're technically in a different country right now so do what the man says." I wanna know whose decision it was to take us there. XD
My parents are insisting I binge all of Foundation season 2 because apparently it is very epic and feminist which... I find hard to believe... but hopefully it'll at least be entertaining.
Duolingo is yelling at me for not being on top of my Spanish lessons but I think it's a bit backwards to say "here, take this lesson, but if you mess up three times we're gonna put you in time out for an hour." XD
Nah if I'm messing up you should give me MORE.
Because all this childfree business has been making headlines recently I decided to take a look at the childfree corner of the internet and... the discussion did not center on the things I thought it would. I suppose if I categorize FDS as "so agonizingly close... yet so far," I'd categorize childfree as "right direction, but a long ways to go."
Just let a woman into my workplace who was frantically pulling at the door thinking she was in trouble. Turns out she was caught up in the ridiculous traffic today so is very late for theater rehearsal. Then she yelled at me for a good 30 seconds for not being quick enough to unlock the door. Ma'am, aren't you late though? 👀
It still feels wrong to schedule my own dentist appointments. It's like signing up to be tortured in an underground bunker where no one can hear me scream. My heart says no but my brain says, "logically, you need this, cause your teeth are miserable."
The beverage coordinator had a health emergency. He was the only one on site who knew how to change out the kegs. I YouTubed how to change a keg. I am now Keg Girl. This is how you get promotions at music festivals.
Today I, a city dweller, used a lawn mower for the first time.
With this new experience, I now have a brand new fear: Running over a rock with a lawn mower.
Home and gardening trade shows or flower shows use the most mulch. But any outdoor events have pathways it needs to maintain so mulch is used there as well along with wood. I had one “award winning gardener” curse me out for not bringing him the correct type of mulch. XD
My sister mentioned to me that soon the debates for all the Republicans running for president will begin. I asked when the debates for the Democrats would take place. Apparently, there won't be any because - according to her - no one wants to make Biden look bad. Apparently, that is also the reason why only two people are running against him because to do so would be a damaging political move on account of running against someone requiring you to point out their weaknesses as a leader.
But... should we not be pointing out the weaknesses of our leaders? Wouldn't doing so motivate any given leader to do better? It seems counterintuitive to me that showing the holes in someone's plan in an honest to goodness debate is the whole purpose of having a debate to begin with. And is dissent not part of the whole purpose of checks and balances?
Then my sister goes on further to explain that because of that whole dynamic, none of the Democrats running against Biden have any real shot at getting a nomination. She pointed to that Kennedy guy that I see people latching onto explaining he was a crazy conspiracy theorist so even bringing him on TV is unthinkable because "it's bad to platform bad ideas."
And that seems to be straight out of the TRA handbook. There can be no debate because a debate means giving people who don't agree with us a platform. However if what they're saying is so unreasonable, shouldn't getting the upper hand in a debate be easy? If an idea is so terrible, will your mind really be corrupted by listening to that speech, reading that book, or watching that interview?
My sister thinks... yes, you would be corrupted. She says the average person is not smart enough to have adequate political opinions... which is basically the whole reason the electoral college exists... an aspect of our elections that has caused an earthquake more than once.
Idk. I might not know much about political strategy, but my sister is very keyed into things on the political left and the way she talks about it doesn't make the unspoken rules career politicians seem like a good temperature check of a legitimate government.
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