I was trying to explain to my grandma what being bisexual meant and saying that I looked at ladies butts and she was all “You’re not GAY everyone checks out ladies rear ends” and my sister was like “I have never wanted to look at a ladies butt” Later my grandma called me and was like “I THINK I MIGHT BE A LITTLE GAY”
don’t eat any food given to you by extroverts or while visiting the homes of extroverts
do not tell extroverts your real name
if you are able to see and recognize extroverts, do not acknowledge them and pretend they are invisible to you
when trapped by extroverts, turn your sweater backwards
if you are tired of extroverts coming into your home and disrupting your peace and quiet, an iron horseshoe above your door will usually deter them
If you are traveling by moonlight, do not step within a ring of mushrooms, for the extroverts will come and take you away to their land
when speaking of extroverts, refer to them using polite euphemisms, like “The Socially Inclined” or “The Good People of the Parties” unless you want to attract their attention and/or wrath
As one of your resident extroverts, I cannot confirm or deny any of this.
If you are traveling by moonlight, feel free to wander off the path. Follow the twinkling lights. We’d love to meet you.
Tonight at the gym a man who looked like fuckin Thor asked me out and when I told him I was a lesbian he goes “oh. Chill. You know, my sister and I work out a lot together. She’ll be here tomorrow, same time.”
Me: I was right to give myself time before watching Nanette on Netflix. I knew it was going to be great but A Lot™
Also me: HANNAH GADSBY’S NANETTE IS ONE OF THE BEST WRITTEN THINGS I’VE SEEN ALL YEAR. IT IS BRUTAL AND BRINGS THE HARSH TRUTH ABOUT COMEDY AND WELLNESS AND HATE AND ANGER THAT EVEN COMEDIANS SUGARCOAT. SHE IS RIDICULOUSLY GOOD AT COMEDY BUT ALSO THE LAST PORTION OF HER SHOW EVOLVES INTO THE MOST HONEST AND CONCISE PIECE ABOUT THE VIOLENCE OF MEN, AND THE CULT OF PERSONALITY THAT ENABLES IT. IT IS NOT THE SAME POINT OF VIEW YOU’VE HEARD. IT’S SO GOOD. I AM PISSED THAT I’VE NEVER HEARD OF HER BEFORE THIS. SHE LITERALLY SET HERSELF FREE ONSTAGE. SHE DESERVES ALL THE AWARDS.
I am giving myself time before I watch it. I have seen Hannah before and I know she’s amazing, and back in 2004ish when I saw her, I was just so excited to see a lesbian comic onstage who wasn’t Ellen, but even then she was performing about being a lesbian in Australian society, and she was doing the material that is the jokey flipside of the hate crime she breaks down in Nanette, and I don’t think I’m ready to see her talk about it live yet, when even the stills with captions I see daily on my feed are upsetting me. I never really took the jokey routine at face value the way that a lot of people might have. I’m a queer woman the same age as Hannah who grew up in the same society, and though I personally have not been beaten for being queer, one of my butch friends was, by a man who thought she was disgusting for holding hands with her girlfriend. So he beat her, in public, on a high street, in front of his children and other people, who as in Hannah’s assault, did absolutely nothing. I felt the edge of darkness in the way she joked about it, even then. Comedy, at its best, is about horrific truth told nakedly, and Hannah’s comedy was always about the danger inherent in difference, for those who knew to look for it.
Actually, according to the 1923 Supreme Court interpretation of the Naturalization Act, you could also become a naturalized citizen if you were of African descent. 1924 was when Native Americans were included. Gotta exclude those Asiatics, though. But this is too complicated to put in that one line so… yeah.
I wanted Steve and Bucky to be in more worker strikes, but apparently the biggest ones in NYC were either immediately post-WWII, or in 1911 following the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, and most of the protestors were Jewish women who worked in the garment industry. (And lbr, they totally missed the Civil Rights movement.)
Here’s the quick Wikipedia link to the child labor thing. 🙂 I learned so much making this comic!
Happy Birthday, Steve. The world is not that great right now, both here and in Marvel-verse, but let’s keep on trucking.
knitting in the dark 