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They pulled the white privilege card with Fallon

As we all know, “I don’t really even care that much about politics” is the universal code for “I’m privileged enough that most political decisions don’t affect my daily life.”
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tehpope said:
They pulled the white privilege card with Fallon
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I love that. It would have been a better article if the author just flat said "I don't like Jimmy because he's white and male" because then it would have been honest.
 
tehpope said:
They pulled the white privilege card with Fallon
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Funny, the very person levelling that charge also is frequently unconcerned about things like middle-class unemployment and poverty because, well, it doesn't affect their daily life.... but that's okay, poor white people are racist trash anyway.....
 
BR55 said:
We have a Two Party system in America. Just by being the GOP Nominee Trump was always going to Mainstream/"Normalized". If Bernie became the Democrat nominee then, despite being a Socialist, He would also have become mainstream/"Normalized". Thats just how the American Political system works.
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Trump was already normalized in the sense that he was a household name in the 80s and 90s. That man slapped his brand ( and possibly dick) on everything he could. You're right though with the media attention a main party presidential candidate receives they are almost instantly normalized to the general public.

Trump's appearance with Jimmy Fallon was also very humanizing and how dare their perceived worst enemy and literally Hitler be a living, breathing, flawed, human being.
 
Imagine thinking a wholesome series of books written in the 1930s was about a secret lesbian student detective.

TMS is basically saying women who have close girl friends are all lesbians. There’s nothing wrong or problematic with that right?

Hatoful Dandy said:
I hope they ignore TMS and we see that site finally turn into the pillar of salt it was always meant to be.
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Don’t worry, CBS is not going to act on TMS fantasy.
 
Yaoi Huntress Earth said:
It's amazing how entitled TMS has gotten with their headcannons and how everyone needs to make them real (or at the very least, take them seriously).
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They seem to seemingly forget that tom boys exist. That doesn't make you gay or less of a woman. They don't need an imaginary gender status, they're still women regardless. It's fairly insulting to imply that women who don't dress traditionally feminine aren't actual women...
 
IceGray said:
It sounds like yet another lesbian fetish dressed up as progressiveness. Is this decade's tired trope going to be "girls with lesbian waifus?"
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Legbeards are the new neckbeards.
 
krautkid said:
They seem to seemingly forget that tom boys exist. That doesn't make you gay or less of a woman. They don't need an imaginary gender status, they're still women regardless. It's fairly insulting to imply that women who don't dress traditionally feminine aren't actual women...
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Tomboys are seen as closeted trans men or some non binary/queer people now. They created a new binary: troon spectrum or gender conforming.
 
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Sinners Sandwich said:
Tomboys are seen as closeted trans men or some non binary/queer characters now. They created a new binary: troon spectrum or gender conforming.
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I call that erasure. Most tomboys grow up to still be tomboys and are still usually entirely heterosexual.
 
AnOminous said:
I call that erasure. Most tomboys grow up to still be tomboys and are still usually entirely heterosexual.
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That's one of the things that irritates me most about this fad. For all that they claim to be smashing the gender binary, they actually enforce it quite thoroughly. If you aren't a Donna Reed/Stepford Wife type you aren't a girl.

We've progressed from "You can't like that, you're a girl" to "If you like that, you're a boy." wow such progress.
 
Wallace said:
Agreed. Juvenile gender-defying behaviors go away in the overwhelming majority of cases.
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I disagree in the sense that most tomboys actually do grow up to be pretty tomboy-ish as adults, too.
 
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