tom king and his defenders even his begrudging ones cannot have it both ways. either the blood on his hands matters or it doesn’t. if he has to make his work about his guilt and therefore in the public eye, i have a right to judge him for it, and if it doesn’t matter and we should actually just leave it alone, then maybe he should stop talking about it, both in his own voice and in the massively public and platformed media presence of his career.

perhaps, even, one can say that a man with an unfathomable amount of blood on his hands should not have a massive media career at all, and that stating such is not tantamount to a microscopic of a fraction of retributive pain incurred proportional to the lasting harm associated with his previous career!

kep's favorite hobby is crawling onto your lap so he can breathe really loudly and wetly 1 inch away from your face. it is so so important to him that you let him do this.

Do you remember the episode of Spongebob where he's training gary for the snail race and does a coach persona + calls gary a girl and has an aside where he's like "I called you a lady to demean you 🤓" and right after he says that it cuts to sandy and she somehow telepathically feels that Spongebob just did something misogynistic and us like I feel like I need to kick Spongebobs ass for some reason. And then she appears just at the end of the episode to kick his ass.

it’s so very, very mean that the moment Noelle finally gathered the courage to stand up to Carol also happened to be the moment Carol was calling her to tell her that Rudy collapsed. Noelle had no way of knowing that, of course, but we all know that’s not going to stop her from absolutely hating herself for hanging up

most insufferable traits become tolerable and often attractive when transferred instead to a woman

this is mostly a consequence of misogyny, the forces that enable men to be sleazy scumbags by default heavily discourage that in women and so her shittiness is in active defiance of social order rather than in line with it, but critically women are just more likable