A professor asked if I prefer “Miss” or “Mister” (because nb) and I accidentally said “ya boi” without thinking so now I have a professor that calls me “ya boi Rogers” every time I see him.
I don’t know if this is an unpopular opinion or not, but the I, Robot movie with Will Smith had a terrible design for the robots.
The bodies were honestly pretty cool. I don’t have a problem with them, really, except that it looks like things would get snagged or caught inside their naked musculature very easily. An android designed to work around humans probably shouldn’t look like your hair will get tangled in its thumbs or biceps and ripped out if it’s trying to rescue you.
They do look very unfinished. Sonny here looks like a weird prototype rather than a completed model – which I could dig, except that this is what all the robots look like in-universe. Why don’t they have skin? The weird translucent gel of the torso, forearms, and head looks like it’s meant to absorb impacts, which is cool, but… it’s executed in a really ugly way. It doesn’t say “futuristic and corporate” to me, it says “glob of mucus”.
Ultimately, though, I think the body is fine. The FACE, though! THE FACE!
Horrible! And not ‘Uncanny Valley’ so much as Regular Ugly. The extremely realistic, limpid eyes set into gooey mucus face are so unnecessary. I am unwilling to suspend my disbelief to the point of accepting that there is a fictional universe in which this design tested well with customers.
Look. He looks exactly like Voldemort.
I know, I know, it was 2004 and they were going for ‘eyes are the window to the soul’ symbolism, but Bicentennial Man was 1999 and Andrew’s hard plastic face managed to be much more expressive by virtue of not being a featureless blob:
Bjork’s sexy gay robot music video came out in 1999 as well, and the designs there managed to have the ‘obviously synthetic face with hyper-realistic humanoid eyes’ without being sinfully ugly.
I just. Augh! They somehow went with the ugliest possible robot design for that movie and I don’t know why. I’d take ‘creepy’ over ‘ugly’ any day. Why, 2004?! Why?!
I just heard my mom tell my brother, “when you die, you will go outside and garden until your father says you’re done” and it took me a second to realize that my brother was playing a videogame and this was not a theological discussion.
My boss once texted me “Find Jesus. He’ll open the door.”
It took me half an hour before I remembered that the head groundskeeper was named Jesus (Spanish pronunciation) & he had keys to our room. I honestly thought that it was a religious text.
my dad once simultaneously got one of those sidebar ads saying something like “Jesus will return soon, is your soul ready??” and an email about a coworker saying “Jesus will be back on Tuesday”
*wears men’s deodorant and cologne while wearing women’s lingerie and a mud mask* I thrive on creating dissonance based on mixing socially constructed normative behaviors for gender roles designed to limit our human consciousness and deny us our places in the universe as cosmic beings
Also men’s deodorant is cheaper but their underwear is less pretty.
Not to mention the fact that Mrs. White isn’t qualified to teach.
She should be required to take a remedial English course.
“I have went”? please. It’s “I have gone”, Mrs. White.
first, my kid would not sign anything without me seeing it first. 2nd, upon seeing it i would be at the superintendant’s office the next morning.
then we would speak to the teacher.
black folk gotta nip it in the bud.
Dont let your children be controlled like this. I remember back when I was in school my mom always told me “if you really need to use the bathroom or attend to an emergency and the teacher won’t let you, then just leave the classroom and I’ll deal with teacher and principle”
Mom had my back
If I was this kid I would use up those passes and then just fuckin’ throw up or get a severe nosebleed in the classroom and then refuse to leave because “sorry, I can’t go to the nurse, I already used up my two passes for the fucking MONTH”
There was a student at my high school, who we will call John Doe, who actually did that. When teachers gave him a limited number of bathroom allowances (usually 3 per semester, which was the standard at my school), he would use them in the first week, and then induce vomitting my eating rotten food he found around the school garbage cans. If teachers refused to let him go, he would just throw up on something they had to touch. Light switches, keyboards, whatever was available.
Instead of making admin do anything about this toxic policy, they just doubled down harder, to the extent that one girl politely informed a teacher that she felt like she might be about to have a seizure and could she go to the nurse, please. She was denied, sat back down at her desk, and promptly passed out and concussed herself on the concrete floor when she fell.
Another girl had severe vertigo-induced fainting, could not get a teacher to excuse her from a phys ed class, and fell off a monkey bars and split her head open, and nearly lost an eye because her glasses broke when she landed.
A student with, I believe, diabetes had a severe blood sugar drop and tried to eat a candy bar in a class with a “no food or drinks” rule. The candy bar was taken away, and she had to be taken out by EMTs.
This kind of human rights abuse in public schools is not new. I graduated a full decade ago.
I’m glad it’s being publically discussed again, (briefly around 2003-2005 this was also a popular subject of discussion). I hope that this time, concrete changes in policy are actually affected.
My mother, who was a teacher, would have been on the warpath if this kind of thing had been implemented on me or my brother.
this is so surreal to me like, in sweden (at least where I’m from) do you know what we do when we need to go to the bathroom?
we just leave. it’s that simple. maybe if you feel like it, or if they’re in the middle of a lecture you might give a quiet excuse before going, but I’ve never asked for permission to go to the bathroom.
and i shouldn’t have to.
When Americans get to college we literally need to be told “if you need to use the restroom just go, don’t raise your hand and ask” because for the 12+ years prior we couldn’t use the restroom/leave for the nurse’s office/get a drink of water without explicit permission, otherwise we would get written up or given detentions or whatever else
A lot of the Mexican school system is modelled off after the American system and it took me forever to unlearn the whole “I have to go to the bathroom” shebang, to the point where I am now a working adult and feel watched when I have to go but I just went an hour and a half ago so surely my boss must think I’m slacking off with all this going to the bathroom…
Yeah, teachers, don’t do this. I understand not letting more than one student out (I saw boys take advantage of their “bathroom breaks” to go play football together) and I understand being upset at a student who says they were going to the bathroom and come back with snacks (students, be truthful to your teachers) but this insane amount of control gives you people who don’t even know to listen to their bodies because they unlearned it when they were kids.
x-men’s inherent flaw in its storytelling is that it always has mutants with useful powers telling mutants with actual curses to be proud of their powers
“you should embrace your gifts” says Orgasm Dude, the dude with the power to give anyone an orgasm
“yeah thanks” says Will Explode If He Gets A Boner Man
Isn’t this literally the Rogue subplot of X-Men 3?
“Is it true, there’s a cure?” says Everyone I Touch Dies
“There’s nothing to cure” says Weather Lady Who Was Worshiped As a God
It’s not a flaw, it’s a reflection of real life, the way everything is in x men
It’s like a white gay man who lives in a liberal city telling a black trans woman in a deep red state that she should be proud and out of who she is despite that her life expectancy and safety are not the same as his
It’s like someone with mild autism telling someone with severe schizophrenia that they are fine the way they are and don’t need treatment
All marginalized groups are not the same, and all people are not the same, and Storm telling Rogue she doesn’t need to be fixed is referencing people who can get by with their minority standing telling people who will literally not survive how to feel and think just because they are also a minority
The Chaos Bitches 