Older: "Oh, pitiful shadow cloaked in darkness, Thy actions cause men pain and suffering. Thy soul drowns in thy sins... How would you like to see what death is like? "
Newer: "I'll let you suckle my teats if you let me gobble your schlong."
I think that was amazingly awesome. The people saying there's a time and place, you're correct. This was the time and place. Take a stand, make noise, make people uncomfortable. Quiet compliance is what got us here in the first place.
Cats is not a complicated musical. All they had to do was animate it and get actual voice actors/singers. I've seen sketches for what I think was a Tim Burton sketch, and that would have been a million times better. I don't know who looked at Cat's and was like, "Yup, we need CGI." It looks horrendous and sounds bad more often than not. The musical is already pretty out there, how much more fun would that movie had been if we had animators working on it. The creative visuals, colors, motifs. Not to mention a cat is a wonderfully complex animal to animate just because of how they move. That movie could have been a visual delight in part with the Spiderman movies if they let it, but noooooo. Let's make a nightmare.
"Should I try and fix the mistakes of my predecessor? Help people? Nah, I'll just quit cause I don't wanna be shot for killing millions of people. Daddy needs a new yacht."
That is horrifying. It's all horrifying. I always thought that with everything online that we'd all look at each other and do something, but from this to genocide, it feels like we're stuck in "thoughts and prayers" mode when we should be at "torches and pitchforks." They're human beings, we're human beings. We only get one life. Why the fuck are we doing this to each other.
"My family immigranted for a better life, fought against decades of discrimination to make a home here."
"My family were slaves. Brought over against our will, and are still trying to find our place."
"My family settled and tried to take over another country and, when that didn't work, and the inhabitants weren't super chummy, they came to this county to have the freedom to be racist against your families."
"When you're fighting with someone, think of it as tug-of-war. You choose how long you hold that rope, but you can put it down, or not even pick it up. Either way, neither of you are really going anywhere until one of you chooses to walk away."
There's a member of my family I strongly dislike, so I had to work on not taking the bait.
I had a girl staple her hand by accident, went to the nurse. We spent the next 30 minutes watching the teacher deal with a kid trying to staple himself on purpose so he could leave too.
He did eventually get to leave, but not because of the staple.
My mom actually managed to win a McDonald's contest years ago and got a free trip to Disney. We got to stay in the hotel that has the monorail in it (of that's even still a thing).
I've never even dated someone, but I've walked with male friends and had someone shout out he was taking one for the team and thanking him for his service. I've also had someone say loudly that they would be embarrassed to be seen with someone like me (fat and ugly). I've had someone stop him and ask if he knew "it" was following him (We were in different sections of a store while I was approaching). I've had people say he must be rich to keep "something like me" fed. I've had friends called "pig fucker" while walking with me. I've had people, when they thought I couldn't hear, praise him for seeing "what's inside." I've had people insinuate that I must be good in bed for anyone to want me. I've been called practice. I have had someone loudly exclaim that "damn, if that's all that's left I'd just be gay."
So, not a "relationship," but friendship. Sorry if that's vending the rules a bit.
Older: "Oh, pitiful shadow cloaked in darkness, Thy actions cause men pain and suffering. Thy soul drowns in thy sins... How would you like to see what death is like? "
Newer: "I'll let you suckle my teats if you let me gobble your schlong."