#could it be that Geraldine is not white and that’s also contributing to this?

[soldierandawar]

people gotta be more fr on age gaps in fictional media.

[paperpocalypse]

red.

50 Wordless Ways to Say “I Love You”: 20. Washing their back/hair in the shower.

Pairing: Five Hargreeves x Reader 

Word Count: 1,662 words

Warning: Implied/referenced murder

[A/N: No shower, just sticking Five’s head underneath a sink faucet. Also Villain!AU :)]

It really was too bad.

You had liked Elliott – honestly, you did, and you don’t like a lot of people. Sure, he was ridiculously paranoid, and his Jell-O molds boasted flavors that could alter the timeline all by themselves. But he had been a nice man, a harmless man, and you don’t like killing nice, harmless men unless you have to. Personally, anyway.

If only he had been cooperative for a few more hours …!

“What a shame,” you murmur, tucking the last corner of the blanket underneath his head. At least taking a bullet to the heart was almost as quick as being incinerated by a nuclear missile. Somewhat. In any case, you think to yourself as you stand up, he’s as good as gone; Diego and Luther will probably want to bury him once they get back. Societal convention, and all that.

“Anybody still here?”

(Speak of the devils and they will appear –)

“In here,” you call out, smoothing out your clothes and hurrying into the kitchen before the two brothers – mainly Diego – can make their own conclusions about the living room. As expected, they greet you with suspicious frowns as you come to a stop in front of them.

“What’s going on?” Diego demands.

“Hello to you, too,” you reply lightly. The man only narrows his eyes, and you scratch the back of your head, absently wondering if he does, in fact, like you enough not to turn you into a knife block. “So … things got a bit out of hand with Elliott while you guys were out.”

“What do you mean?” Luther asks.

You shrug. “I had no choice.”

“No choice?”

Diego’s jaw clenches, and he pushes past you towards the living room. “What did you do to him?”

“What he would’ve done to me if I hadn’t shot him first,” you reply evenly. You linger on the boundary between the kitchen and the living room, staying a respectful distance away as they stare down at the covered body. “If it makes it any better, it was quick. I didn’t torture him or anything like that. Not that I know how to.”

“Lucky for him,” Diego retorts. Nevertheless, his expression is calmer that you thought it’d be, and it puts you less on edge. It’s obvious that he’s still upset about it, however. “At least he didn’t suffer too much.”

“Yeah. He didn’t have much time left, anyway.”

The two brothers nod reluctantly, glancing at each other and then down at the body. You cross your arms, fingers brushing the hand-sized weapon just above your hip as Diego turns and bumps past you towards the door again. Probably to find a shovel. Luther, the big old softie, lifts Elliott from the red-leather sofa where you had wrapped him up.

He moves toward the front door as well but stops in front of you, uncertain. “You wanna …?” he starts, motioning the body towards you slightly.

You shake your head. “You two should do it. I already did my part.”

“Are you sure? I mean, I know you got along with him pretty well, and –”

You cut his rambling off with a pat to the back, ushering him along – if you look at the Elliott-shaped cargo in his arms any longer, you might actually start feeling guilty. “I’m one hundred percent positive. Just hurry up, yeah?”

He blinks down at you, then nods. “Okay. Just – come down if you change your mind.”

“Sure thing.”

With that, the hulk of a man wanders away with Elliott, and you walk over to the now vacant couch. Sitting down, you press your palms down into the leather. Is it still slightly warm? You resist the thought of standing back up and lean into the backrest instead. Jesus, you’re getting soft. He was expendable. There’s a thousand more Elliotts out there in a thousand more timelines, anyway.

Inhaling deeply, you take your pistol out. The barrel has, of course, cooled down by now, and you inspect it with careful fingers. But before you can take aim at one of the UFOs tacked onto the far wall, you hear a sound downstairs.

“Five?”

His footsteps are nimbler than usual as he climbs up the stairs. You put the pistol down and push yourself out of your seat, blinking in surprise as the teenage, bloodstained face of your partner comes into view. Everything about him is bloodstained, actually.

Save for the black suitcase gripped like a lifeline in his hand.

“So that’s where you disappeared to?” you exclaim, immediately taking the suitcase from Five and placing it on the coffee table as you shepherd him to the bathroom. “A killing spree without me? I had to settle for the conspiracy man.”

“You did it already?”

“It was in self-defense.”

Five scoffs lightly, shedding his jacket and leaving it on a chair as the two of you walk through the kitchen. “I’m sure it was.”

“It’s true! I mean –” pushing the bathroom door open, you consider, “fine, I got a little stir crazy while everyone was gone. But I didn’t think he’d pull the rifle on me.” You turn on the sink and feel the water run through your fingers, cold and then warm. Perfect. “But enough about me. Whose blood did you bathe in?”

Five loosens his tie. “The board’s,” he tells you.

He keeps his expression professional, but there’s no mistaking the pride just begging to surface in his tone. You raise an eyebrow and hum, tugging him closer to the sink by his tie.

“Impressive. But there’s more, isn’t there?” you guess, trying not to sound like an eager child. Your eyes rove over his profile. “Here, let me wash your hair. It’s getting crusty.”

He rolls his eyes but leans over the sink nevertheless, grunting a bit when you push his head underneath the faucet. Pink water streams down onto the white porcelain and into the drain. As you lather up a bar of soap and begin scrubbing his hair, he speaks, his voice somewhat muffled by the lip of the sink. “I offed the Handler, if that’s what you’re asking.”

A grin spreads across your face. You rinse the last of the bubbles from Five’s hair. “It was.”

“You sound happy.”

“I’m ecstatic.” Running your fingers over his hair one last time, you force your hand off to grab a towel. “Almost everything’s in place now, isn’t it?”

“All there’s left to do is reset the suitcase, have Vanya blow up something next to JFK, and then all of us can head to Commission headquarters.” Removing his head from underneath the faucet, Five holds out a hand and you place the towel in it. “Smooth sailing from there.”

“Well, I do love a good boat ride.”

He huffs out a chuckle as he finishes drying his hair, running the towel under the water again. Your heart turns soft and goopy when his eyes dart to meet yours knowingly, just for a split second, before he wrings the towel out to wipe the blood from his face.

It’s a moment you’d like to savor a little longer, but the image of the suitcase in the living room inevitably shakes you out of it.

“Alright, I’ll leave you to it while I work on resetting the suitcase,” you tell him. “Shouldn’t take too long – ten minutes or so. I hope all of your siblings are back by then.”

“Highly doubt it,” you hear him mutter as you head out the door, and you don’t bother to hide a snort. Each one of the Hargreeves – Five included, even though he often acts like he’s above it – has a fondness for wreaking their own special kind of havoc on each timeline. Might as well have some fun before pulling the plug on humanity, after all. Burn your name into the book before it closes.

You slip into Elliott’s bedroom to grab a hangar, then head over to the living room. The suitcase sits innocently where you had left it; you carefully undo the latches and open the case just enough to sneak the hook in. Each one of this particular model has a sweet spot – and you could find it in your sleep. You had helped design the damn thing, after all. Not that your contributions were ever appreciated.

No, Dr. Geraldine Tynnsdale had to be a “true kindred spirit with the vision of the Commission” for the past twenty-five years.

Taking credit for everything.

After some careful prodding, you feel a satisfying click.

“There we go,” you praise the suitcase, withdrawing the hangar and popping the lid open. A sense of adoration fills your chest, replacing your feelings of malice as you stare at the familiar array of knobs and buttons. Beautiful. “Let’s get to work, shall we?”

Just as you thought, it takes less than ten minutes to get everything in order. The bathroom door unlocks just as you finish inputting the coordinates for headquarters, and you look up at Five (who’s now sporting a freshly cleaned uniform, at least for the visible bloodstains) with a self-satisfied smile as he approaches the sofa. Overwhelming pride for a job well done fills your bones; you had missed your projects dearly these past two weeks.

“Ready?” He tilts his head contentedly, hands in his pockets.

“Ready,” you echo, standing up. “I suppose we’ll have to round up your siblings now.”

The flat look on Five’s face makes you snort again, and you pick up the suitcase while placing your other hand in the crook of his elbow, escorting the two of you towards the back door where Luther and Diego had gone. 

Soon, you think, you’ll be free. Free to do whatever you like, make whatever you like, with Five at your side and no one to answer to but yourself. 

A smile graces your face as you squeeze Five’s arm. Whoever said that happy endings don’t exist for people like you?

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*Narratives In Regard to Experience*

While reading the “Narratives” article by Palczewski, the concept of how one remembers events became extremely interesting. Before reading, I personally never stopped to wonder why certain memories from the past are seemingly more vivid than others. This artifact taught me about the differences in memories or stories, and even went in depth about why some memories stick vs others. Not only were memories brought into question, but pieces of U.S. history were used as examples to exhibit how rhetorical tools are used in different situations and forms. The story of Jackie Robinson becoming an extremely successful African American athlete was portrayed various ways by the media.  In some articles pathos was used to pity him based on the names he was called, and the hardships he oftentimes faced.  While other articles referred to him as an average baseball player, who only was popular because of his color. In both ways, his hardships are mentioned, but regarder in two very different senses.  Reporters oftentimes have a way of utilizing their rhetoric to get readers to see a situation very one sided.

Throughout U.S culture, this artifact is an example of not only how narratives can be portrayed differently by people with different beliefs, but it also forms an ideology around the culture of the U.S through sports. To investigate further, I watched a YouTube highlight of Jackie Robinson’s critics post game and thoroughly analyzed the “Rhetorical Criticism” artifact. To my surprise, it seemed as if both reporters praised Robinson for his positive contributions to his team, while also using degrading rhetoric to categorize him. It seemed as if they were claiming him as an accomplished American sports player, but also grouping him as a lower class citizen.

The YouTube video I decided to include as my artifact, was a scene where Ben Chapman- another MLB player, was highlighted for antagonizing Jackie Robinson throughout the game. The follow up game comments included the disrespectful rhetoric Chapman used to address Robinson, and the reports seemingly concluded their showtime with a mixed attitude of embarrassment but a sense of them not being shocked. In “Rhetorical Criticism”, Foss states that to achieve the American dream one will have to endure “hard work [that] will lead to success regardless of a person’s origin” (Foss, 117). This ideology supports my thoughts on why Ben Chapman accepted Robinson as an accomplished player, but still degraded him. Chapman congratulated his hard work and success regardless of his origin, but still treated him as an outsider.

The narrative told by the reporters deemed that Jackie Robinson was exceptional in the game against the Dodgers, while having to deal with the norms of the society he lived in. Norms including being called degrading names and having to accept the fact that he could not fight against any of the white players. The narrative told by Ben Chapman however would be different. Ben Chapman spoke about how he acted as anyone would and should towards the Negro player, as he still congradulated Robinson on his stellar performace. Chapman had no sense of wrongdoing, as this was a time where everyone accepted Robinson as competition, but not as a person.

In regards to the speech Geraldine Ferraro voiced, she regarded the American dream as a saying that included all people, all races. She made the “promise [that] the rules are fair” throughout the U.S, and through the American dream “our faith can shape a better future” (Ferraro, 117). Instead of speaking on where our country was morally, she decided that in light of her potentially winning the Democratic nomination for vice presidency, it would be best to overlook the reality. The advantages to her grouping all Americans as one would essentially make her seem far and righteous in the name of America. The rhetoric used was to make all feel as though they were welcome. She included the ideology of the American dream because that’s what American’s strived to immulate. Through her tactics, people like Ben Chapman would have either wanted to vote for her to work towards achieving that dream, or saw through the unity she was trying to speak on.

As stated in “The Power in a Political Narrative”, written by Henry Tolchart explains that “when narratives are in conflict, their importance is amplified” (Tolchart). The conflict in America when Geraldine Ferraro was running for office was between African American and White Americans. She seemingly excluded the present narrative at the time, and skipped to the conclusion. The importance of segregation at the time was at a high, and she used the American dream to bring both parties together.

In conclusion, narratives are told by everyone, and oftentimes utilized to sway a conflict. Convincing rhetoric within the narrative is important in changing mindset. Narrative is also different based on different experiences. For example, Jackie Robinson would have a different narrative of how he was treated while achieving history as opposed to Ben Chapman. Different viewpoints always start the beginnings of the same story told in different ways.

[missrkl]

Intentions Behind Lies Chapter One

Gabi was sitting in makeup as the makeup artists did their most prolific work. Teasing her hair, putting things on her face. This was part of her job. There was times she liked it, but sometimes it felt too much like ‘hiding behind lies.’ Even her producer edited her photo’s quite heavily, taking of a bit of weight here and there, making her out to be this super skinny celebrity, when she was anything but. Even her name was phoney, Brittany, that wasn’t her real name. She had to do everything to keep herself number one in the charts. As the hairdressers teased Brittany’s hair into bouncy curls for the stage she sighed heavily. Chin up, said one of the makeup artists, “You’re living the dream! Do you know how many girls would kill to do and have you what you do and have?!” Britanny wasn’t so sure if it was a gift or a curse anymore. It had started out as a gift. In the beginning she loved the fan’s attentions, she loved the applause of the crowd, she even loved the finances that rolled in. Until her Father took it all away saying she wasn’t the right age to handle it yet. He did give her some and she had learned to become content with that. Brittany was soon being ushered into the fitting room area to put on her skimpy outfit, she really did not like waltzing about naked on stage for all to see, but that is what filled concert halls, that is what got the highest views, “sex cells” was the commentaries made by her producer. Brittany inhaled and exhaled deeply, emptying her mind of all her secret inner turmoil, the stage was hers tonight, not one of them would be there, she could just pretend she was at a big massive party singing and dancing her guts out. As Brittany stepped out onto the platform she smiled and cooed at the audience, they all cheered in response. Sometimes this could be fun. 

On the other side of the world was a guy named Fabs, literally that was his stage name. He was a singer too. He did love all his adoring fans, but some of them seemed to be a little too much to handle. He had dark brown hair and dark brown eyes and he was half British and half Italian, “a man to die for” as the tabloids labelled him. Every single female on his arm at any event was a a cause of uproar in the tabloids and his fans, wondering if any of them was his actual for real girlfriend. Fab’s got up on stage and took the mic sporting his famous leather jacket. The leather jacket made him look like a cute little boy in a big man’s outfit, super sweet. Fab’s heard the screams of his fans, all the female attention, he did seem to have a weak spot for a lot of them. Women were like delicate angels, he would never wish for harm to come to any of them. He did have some stalkers, but that was part of the business, it came with the fame and he had to learn to get used to it and use them for the spreading of his fame rather than working against them. Fab’s was his own producer, that’s how great he was. Nobody promoted him but himself, he got himself to where he was, he had a lot to be proud of and his reputation preceded him everywhere he went. Business industries wanted to have interviews with him on how he made it happen, on what led him to do produce himself, how did he know what to do and about the finance side of things. 

Britanny finished her concert and slowly walked off the stage, turning back every few steps to the crowd cheering her on. She felt the exhileration, some audience’s really brought back all the energy that you put out there. She enjoyed those crowd’s a whole lot more. Finally alone in her camper van Britanny wiped off all her make and showered off all that spray off her hair. Blonde hair, back to being Gabi,back to being herself. As she ate her dinner and lounged on the sofa she thought about her upcoming events that might bring joy to her life. She remembered there was this party hosted by Naomi Campbell on the boat, she was going and she hoped to have a good time. It was hard to meet guys being a celebrity, all the men she ever met being Britanny was a bunch of guy’s who just wanted to wank over her or get her laid. She just wanted to be loved and accepted as she was rather than some persona she put up every time she performed. Maybe she could meet meet a guy there.Gabi was into the whole brown hair brown eyes rogue handsome man, she hoped there would be one for her there. 

Fab’s ran off the stage with deep excitement coursing through his veins. All the women were beautiful tonight, he was a sucker for a pretty face. He couldn’t help but flirt with some of the audience tonight, which had been met with shrills of delight by the audience, all dreaming that they were that woman he was talking to. As Fab’s got into his SUV he thought about the party he was going to go to Naomi Campbell’s boat party, he was a close friend and he liked her very much. A time for relaxation and a lot of fun. As he drove down the road he did have this earnest desire to have someone who liked him beyond his reputation, he had met lots of women who wanted his finances, or wanted his fame and status, like some sort of ‘man trophy.’ He wanted to meet a nice genuine woman, someone who wasn’t afraidto be herself around him. 

The week dragged slowly for both Gabi and Fab’s and soon the weekend was here and Naomi’s boat party was happening. Gabi dressed up in a gold sequin dress and her blonde hair tied up in a high pony tail like Ariana Grande. She sported a gold sequin bag to match and all she had on her was lipstick, keys and her iphone and charger. The important things clearly. Fab’s on the other-hand was running late, he had to meetup with Clarke before the event and he was racing down the road in his SUV. He wore a suite, black, and he was really looking forward to tonight. Gabi arrived on time and was soon shown around the rooms of the boat and led to the dining table and handed a glass of white wine. She stood with some other famed artists and they talked about nothing in particular, although the commentaries on crazed fans did come up and she did have a few stories to contribute. Fab’s arrived late and was also soon shown around the rooms and handed a glass of whiskey and this is the place where these two meet. They happened to meet when Fab’s was ushered to Naomi’s group of friend’s and Gabi was one of them, a new one. Fab’s eyed her up, exceptionally beautiful, blonde hair, blue eyes, pink lips, sexy slinky gold sequin dress and gold heels to match. He liked her almost immediately. He felt his cheeky boy side wanting to come out and play. Gabi was always apprehensive with new guys, and she had heart about his reputation in the newspapers, different girls always on his arm at different events, except for tonight it seems. Gabi had no intention of being one of those girls. 

As Gabi and Fab’s locked eyes together there seemed to be a spark between them. Gabi felt it loud and strong. The group was talking about the sexuality gender confusion of this day and what they thought about it and whether or not they would cash in on that exploit it as artists, Fab’s had made some comments that really pushed her buttons. He had said that he would exploit it for sure, he could use all the publicity he could get. Gabi had asked him “so you would feign being gay or feign having a gender confusion or supporting the gender confusion just for fans and ratings?” Fab’s had said yes, anything to get his numbers up. He was producing himself after all, it was a lot harder than say “some singer who had a producer who did all the hard work” and Gabi felt like this was a dig at her and she decided she didn’t like him anymore, he was rude and obnoxious and clearly only out for himself. She felt herself rising with boiling anger at his remark and had made some excuses to leave the group. Fab’s had made some excuses too and followed her, much to her annoyance. Gabi walked to the other side of the ship and looked over the ocean in silence away from the main thrust of the party and Fab’s had followed closely behind and she questioned his motives and Fab’s had remarked “how easily you are spooked, I only came out here for some quiet time, it’s you who followed me.” Gabi wrinkled her nose at him and made a comment how there’s a nasty smell going around the boat, how it must be him and stomped off. Fab’s just laughed, clearly getting some excitement from her frustration, her nose wrinkling was cute.

Gabi went home alone that night and Fab’s went home with two women on his arm, friends or friend’s with benefits she wasn’t sure, but she was sure glad it wasn’t her. Gabi went home frustrated and decided to create a fake persona online, an account where she could be herself, use a different picture, maybe an animated one for the purpose of remaining anonymous. Maybe it would be better for her to meet someone online who had no idea who she was. She set up the account as Geraldine and began scrolling around. She soon found this handsome looking man who had brown hair and brown eyes as well but wasn’t Fab’s, was someone else. He looked just as tantalising. She added him and said hello. Fab’s got a message on his instagram account from a woman named Geraldine asking him how he was and hello I liked your profile pic. Fab’s checked her out and found only an animated profile photo. Clearly a woman with something to hide, but he had something to hide too. His celebrity status. He had put a photo of his twin brother with his permission in order to maybe find the woman he would one day walk down the aisle. They soon began talking via text and found a mutual companionship in each other. Gabi found him to be interesting and easy to text chat to, at least he had given her a chance, with her animated photo and all. Fab’s sat up straighter in his chair, who was this woman? They had a deep connection even on their first chat, he really liked that, he never truly connected with anybody, but this woman, there was something, like a spark, and she didn’t even have a real photo! Which spoke volumes to Fab’s that must mean she was beautiful on the inside and that would last a thousand lifetimes more than the physical appearance that would fade away with time. Although, he did like Gabi yesterday, he had enjoyed their little chat both in the group and in private, and she was beautiful. He would have really liked to get to know her. Maybe one day they would meet again.

[orbemnews]

Walter 'Fritz' Mondale, former vice president under Jimmy Carter, dead at 93 Mondale died at home in downtown Minneapolis surrounded by family, spokesperson Kathy Tunheim said. “It is with profound sadness that we share news that our beloved dad passed away today in Minneapolis, Minnesota,” Mondale’s family said in a statement. “As proud as we were of him leading the presidential ticket for Democrats in 1984, we know that our father’s public policy legacy is so much more than that.” In an email to former staffers obtained by CNN on Monday, Mondale acknowledged in a moving message that his “time has come.” “I am eager to rejoin Joan and Eleanor. Before I Go I wanted to let you know how much you mean to me. Never has a public servant had a better group of people working at their side! Together we have accomplished so much and I know you will keep up the good fight,” Mondale wrote. “Joe in the White House certainly helps,” he added in reference to President Joe Biden. “I always knew it would be okay if I arrived some place and was greeted by one of you!” In the final days of his life, Mondale received calls from many supporters and leaders. He was alert and able to have conversations, Tunheim said, including what a White House official described as a final call over the weekend with Biden. Biden memorialized Mondale on Monday, calling him a “dear friend and mentor.” He said the Minnesota Democrat was one of the first people to greet him in the Senate, and was his first call when former President Barack Obama asked him to consider the vice presidency. “It was Walter Mondale who defined the vice presidency as a full partnership, and helped provide a model for my service,” Biden said in a statement. Born to a Methodist minister and music teacher in southern Minnesota in 1928, the former Democratic vice president was a steadfast supporter of social justice. By the time he graduated from the University of Minnesota Law School, he was deeply involved in the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party — Minnesota’s wing of the Democratic Party. He served as the state’s attorney general starting in 1960 and later was named to the US Senate to fill the seat left vacant by Hubert Humphrey, who was elected Lyndon Johnson’s vice president. Mondale represented Minnesota in the Senate from 1964 until 1976, when he signed on as Carter’s running mate. Carter remembered Mondale in a statement Monday as a “dear friend” and “the best vice president in our country’s history.” “During our administration, Fritz used his political skill and personal integrity to transform the vice presidency into a dynamic, policy-driving force that had never been seen before and still exists today. He was an invaluable partner and an able servant of the people of Minnesota, the United States, and the world,” Carter continued. “Fritz Mondale provided us all with a model for public service and private behavior. Rosalynn and I join all Americans in giving thanks for his exemplary life, and we extend our deepest condolences to his family.” He served as Carter’s No. 2 between 1977 and 1981, but his time as vice president came to an end when Ronald Reagan and his running mate, George H. W. Bush, defeated Carter and Mondale in 1980 — a loss that Democrats wouldn’t recover from until 1992, when Bill Clinton helped the party win back control of the White House. Still, Mondale would win the Democratic presidential nomination himself in 1984, and make history by naming a woman, US Rep. Geraldine A. Ferraro of New York, as his running mate before ultimately falling short to Reagan. Mondale later served as both the US ambassador to Japan and the envoy to Indonesia under Clinton. His last race was in 2002, when he served as Minnesota’s DFL Senate candidate, filling the ballot position of the late Sen. Paul Wellstone, who had died shortly before the election in October of that year. Mondale was defeated in the race by Republican Norm Coleman. “Power has now peacefully changed hands and we are so blessed to be Americans when that happens,” he said in 2002 after his election loss. “We kept the faith, we stayed the course, we fought the good fight, and every one of us should feel good about that.” Following the loss, he returned to practicing law and teaching at the University of Minnesota. Mondale’s family noted Monday that the Fair Housing Act of 1968 had been among his “proudest — and hardest fought — achievements.” “In the course of his years in the U.S. Senate, he understood the sense of reckoning that this country then faced, and was committed to that work alongside Hubert Humphrey, Josie Johnson, Roy Wilkins and so many others,” the Mondale family said. “We are grateful that he had the opportunity to see the emergence of another generation of civil rights reckoning in the past months.” Obama honored Mondale on Monday evening, saying he “championed progressive causes and changed the role of VP — so leaders like (Joe Biden) could be the last ones in the room when decisions were made. In selecting Geraldine Ferraro, he also paved the way for (Vice President Kamala Harris) to make history.” Harris credited Mondale with transforming the office of vice president. “He brought the President and the Vice President closer together, re-defining the relationship as a true partnership. Vice President Mondale worked side by side with President Carter as the two endeavored to end the arms race, promote human rights, and establish peace,” she said in a statement. Clinton praised Mondale for believing in “the power of government to make a positive difference in people’s lives” and celebrated his “deep policy knowledge, a tireless work ethic, and uncommon decency.” Mondale had faced a few significant health issues in recent years. In 2014, he underwent successful heart surgery in his home state of Minnesota, and the following year, he was admitted to the hospital with influenza. He is preceded in death by his wife, Joan Mondale, who died in 2014, and daughter, Eleanor, in 2011. This story has been updated with additional details. CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, Gloria Borger, Paul LeBlanc, Aaron Pellish and Jeff Zeleny contributed to this report. Source link Orbem News #Carter #Dead #deadat93-CNNPolitics #formervicepresidentunderJimmyCarter #Fritz #Jimmy #Mondale #Politics #President #Vice #Walter #WalterMondale

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Walter 'Fritz' Mondale, former vice president under Jimmy Carter, dead at 93

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Walter 'Fritz' Mondale, former vice president under Jimmy Carter, dead at 93

Mondale died at home in downtown Minneapolis surrounded by family, spokesperson Kathy Tunheim said.

“It is with profound sadness that we share news that our beloved dad passed away today in Minneapolis, Minnesota,” Mondale’s family said in a statement. “As proud as we were of him leading the presidential ticket for Democrats in 1984, we know that our father’s public policy legacy is so much more than that.”

In an email to former staffers obtained by Appradab on Monday, Mondale acknowledged in a moving message that his “time has come.”

“I am eager to rejoin Joan and Eleanor. Before I Go I wanted to let you know how much you mean to me. Never has a public servant had a better group of people working at their side! Together we have accomplished so much and I know you will keep up the good fight,” Mondale wrote.

“Joe in the White House certainly helps,” he added in reference to President Joe Biden. “I always knew it would be okay if I arrived some place and was greeted by one of you!”

In the final days of his life, Mondale received calls from many supporters and leaders. He was alert and able to have conversations, Tunheim said, including what a White House official described as a final call over the weekend with Biden.

Biden memorialized Mondale on Monday, calling him a “dear friend and mentor.” He said the Minnesota Democrat was one of the first people to greet him in the Senate, and was his first call when former President Barack Obama asked him to consider the vice presidency. “It was Walter Mondale who defined the vice presidency as a full partnership, and helped provide a model for my service,” Biden said in a statement.

Born to a Methodist minister and music teacher in southern Minnesota in 1928, the former Democratic vice president was a steadfast supporter of social justice. By the time he graduated from the University of Minnesota Law School, he was deeply involved in the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party — Minnesota’s wing of the Democratic Party.

He served as the state’s attorney general starting in 1960 and later was named to the US Senate to fill the seat left vacant by Hubert Humphrey, who was elected Lyndon Johnson’s vice president. Mondale represented Minnesota in the Senate from 1964 until 1976, when he signed on as Carter’s running mate.

Carter remembered Mondale in a statement Monday as a “dear friend” and “the best vice president in our country’s history.”

“During our administration, Fritz used his political skill and personal integrity to transform the vice presidency into a dynamic, policy-driving force that had never been seen before and still exists today. He was an invaluable partner and an able servant of the people of Minnesota, the United States, and the world,” Carter continued.

“Fritz Mondale provided us all with a model for public service and private behavior. Rosalynn and I join all Americans in giving thanks for his exemplary life, and we extend our deepest condolences to his family.”

He served as Carter’s No. 2 between 1977 and 1981, but his time as vice president came to an end when Ronald Reagan and his running mate, George H. W. Bush, defeated Carter and Mondale in 1980 — a loss that Democrats wouldn’t recover from until 1992, when Bill Clinton helped the party win back control of the White House.

Still, Mondale would win the Democratic presidential nomination himself in 1984, and make history by naming a woman, US Rep. Geraldine A. Ferraro of New York, as his running mate before ultimately falling short to Reagan.

Mondale later served as both the US ambassador to Japan and the envoy to Indonesia under Clinton.

His last race was in 2002, when he served as Minnesota’s DFL Senate candidate, filling the ballot position of the late Sen. Paul Wellstone, who had died shortly before the election in October of that year. Mondale was defeated in the race by Republican Norm Coleman.

“Power has now peacefully changed hands and we are so blessed to be Americans when that happens,” he said in 2002 after his election loss. “We kept the faith, we stayed the course, we fought the good fight, and every one of us should feel good about that.”

Following the loss, he returned to practicing law and teaching at the University of Minnesota.

Mondale’s family noted Monday that the Fair Housing Act of 1968 had been among his “proudest — and hardest fought — achievements.”

“In the course of his years in the U.S. Senate, he understood the sense of reckoning that this country then faced, and was committed to that work alongside Hubert Humphrey, Josie Johnson, Roy Wilkins and so many others,” the Mondale family said.

“We are grateful that he had the opportunity to see the emergence of another generation of civil rights reckoning in the past months.”

Obama honored Mondale on Monday evening, saying he “championed progressive causes and changed the role of VP — so leaders like (Joe Biden) could be the last ones in the room when decisions were made. In selecting Geraldine Ferraro, he also paved the way for (Vice President Kamala Harris) to make history.”

Harris credited Mondale with transforming the office of vice president.

“He brought the President and the Vice President closer together, re-defining the relationship as a true partnership. Vice President Mondale worked side by side with President Carter as the two endeavored to end the arms race, promote human rights, and establish peace,” she said in a statement.

Clinton praised Mondale for believing in “the power of government to make a positive difference in people’s lives” and celebrated his “deep policy knowledge, a tireless work ethic, and uncommon decency.”

Mondale had faced a few significant health issues in recent years. In 2014, he underwent successful heart surgery in his home state of Minnesota, and the following year, he was admitted to the hospital with influenza.

He is preceded in death by his wife, Joan Mondale, who died in 2014, and daughter, Eleanor, in 2011.

This story has been updated with additional details.

Appradab’s Wolf Blitzer, Gloria Borger, Paul LeBlanc, Aaron Pellish and Jeff Zeleny contributed to this report.

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1, 13, 17, 25, 28, 43, 44, 48, 49, 50 !! Yeesh That's A Lot but. gotta know

HAHAHA UNDER THE CUT BECAUSE SUPER LONG (SORRY I RAMBLED)

1. Your first OC ever?

Phoenix Hathaway.

Before he was human, didn’t have a last name and was most definitely not immortal. He was also around sixteen? 

13. Do you have any troublemaker OCs?

How about all of them Dark, Geraldine, Ashton, Lana and River, Locien, Mirima would be my main sources of trouble but I mean, at one point, everyone causes chaos. Oh yeah, and @fairyfairypie‘s favourite and my main antagonist, Kade.

17. Any OC OTPs?

YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW MANY I HAVE

Rivnix which is River + Phoenix (they’re my most complicated and headache inducing otp because HOW DO I WRITE YOU TWO. H. O. W.) also, angel + fairy

Lirima which is Locien + Mirima aka my comedy otp. Very easy to write, very hard to take seriously at times

Drewlancey which is Drew and Delancey which is my uhhhh… Well they heal each other? They’re not a soft fluffy otp but they’re not angsty

Arphellason which is Arphenion and Arbellason aka my two very closed off individuals who fake dated for a bit and then got married but have been in love since… forever

Hayabusa + Kimberly my dumb and dumber otp and one of my oldest otps and one I need to revise

Lana + Nora which is my weird vampire and warlock pairing, they’re the ones who don’t take shit in any way but they strangely fit together

Mist + Nicholas which is a interracial pairing in which they balance each other out and act like best friends but wow the arguments are to die for

Kyle + Natalie, I don’t know what possessed me to put them together, ultimate meme couple, ultimate pranksters

Dark + Alaska which is my contribution to the enemies/rivals to friends to lovers trope but they’re very fun to write

Ashton + Andre + a couple others, it’s a polyamory relationship, with both females and males and it’s something I’ll start working out eventually

Kazamir + Zach my slightly kinky otp I’ll leave it there and go to my corner of shame

Emilia and Zane who are seriously more of a brotp but they’re cute, I don’t think they play a huge part in a lot of things

Roxanna + Cameron which is an otp who has super good chemistry but doesn’t work out in the end due to internal and external conflict and my dose of ‘the world is not perfect’ in my original works

Geraldine + Wren, one of the later otps but a hunter + fairy and another w|w otp I have

Quinn + Cyrus, a side otp but an otp regardless, sorta of funny 

Kiera + Sebastian, another side otp but Kiera is the sensible and she routinely tears Sebastian a new pair because he’s not the nicest person

Briar + Finn, one I’m working on but warlock + shapeshifter, one is just running a coffee shop and the other is a doctor who has a rotten personality

I mean, I probably have more but these are all I can remember off the top of my head hahaha rip me this is never gonna be finished.

25. The OC that resembles you the most (same hobby, height, shared like/dislike for something etc?)

Ehhhh, Roxanna, Geraldine and Leah are basically me split into three and then further developed but Geraldine would be the one that is closest to me atm because Leah would be 5-8 year old me, Roxanna would be 9-13 year old me and Geraldine would be current me. 

Leah is into fashion, being pretty, being popular and having friends while not really caring about others and such as well as thinking LGTBQ was unnatural and not good and that was my mindset as a kid.

Roxanna prefers to isolate herself away from anyone if she can, reads all the time and tries not to argue even she is right and everyone else was wrong and she’s just not happy, actually a little shameful of who she is which was me in that age phase. 

Geraldine still likes to read and but doesn’t have that much time, draws and writes for fun, rebels against people she thinks are incorrect and is more confident and accepting of who she is. 

All my characters have little pieces of me but these three are special to me even though I kill one lmao

28. Your most dangerous OC? 

It would be a tie between Drew Ng and Kazamir Volkov because neither will go down easily and they’re very driven individuals who seem nice, Drew more than Kazamir but they could quite literally decide who wins a battle by taking a side. 

Drew also has this demeanour that makes you feel safe but he’s capable to committing mass murder, get away with it and then destroy your life to the point you don’t really even am sure about anything anymore and the one upside is that people anchor him nowadays so he’s not as bad as he could be.

Kazamir is half demon so he has unnatural forces behind him, can basically do whatever he wants can intimidate just about anyone into doing something beneficial to him but detrimental to others and he’s not one to specifically care that much.

43. Do you have any certain type when you create your OCs? Do you tend to favour some certain traits or looks? It’s time to confess

I love making ocs that have suffered, will suffer and are suffering. Also, their backstories usually contain something that could destroy their current lives and everything that they value.

44. Something you like about your OCs in general

They’re complicated. Not copy and paste, not easy to figure out, not easy to know inside out, I don’t even think I know some of my ocs inside out yet and although some of them are similar in some aspects, they’re all different (and diverse I hope)

49. Which one of your OCs would most likely enjoy memes

Say hello to Dark who spends half his time on the web because he���s basically so good at his job he has to wait for others to catch up to him. Also why not he’s half human it’s in his blood.

50. Give me the good ol’ OC talk here. Talk about anything you want

WHAT TO TALK ABOUT???

Hm, I guess we could go through how my characters transitioned and how developed they are?

Team Kastor, the fairies and the elves have been developed the most, little details that need to worked out here and there but they’re pretty much ready to be written.

The angels, the werewolves among some others are super undeveloped save for River because I really haven’t given them much thought yet and they’ve remained unchanged since I left them in grade eight or seven.

CHARACTER TRANSITIONS.

Literally all of them were white at one point and I guess that was why I was always super annoyed with my stories so I started changing them after grade eight but serious changes were not cemented until end of 2016.

Phoenix has not changed that much compared to others, really just changes to his powers, a little change to his appearance

Mist went from Misty to Mist, straight to bisexual, white to half African American and I gave her more development as well as a more prominent role in the stories and she’s fiercer

Dark hasn’t changed that much either other than the fact he’s half Brazilian and wear glasses now, his appearance has changed a lot but not his attitude. Guess he was always a little shit

Cam used to be Lily, cis to genderfluid, still a medic I guess but more skilled and less battle orientated, half polynesian.

Leah used to be the youngest out of the three, but I guess her attitude hasn’t changed that much either and she’s still straight.

Geraldine went from antagonist to one of the protagonists, straight to lesbian, nicely dressed to rebel and punk like appearance but has a good heart.

Roxanna is not different in terms of appearance and personality, she’s the most unchanged out of them all but she’s non binary, asexual and pansexual so she’s changed in that aspect.

River is just generally more sassy, more dangerous, and pansexual but he was gay beforehand. Also, he’s more of an outcast now I guess and doesn’t fit in with the others.

Team Kastor and the elves are fairly new so they haven’t changed drastically.

Thank you for the ask!

I love rambling about them although I may never finish writing about them

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Glenda Jackson: The Meticulous Intellectual

*Written in 2011- but seeing how she’s back acting, I felt now it was time to share.* 

I hope that people did not think my blog on Shelley Winters was in bad taste regarding recent tragedies in Japan, and I hope the blog I am about to write is not in bad taste today either. Movies have to power to console and well as help us recover, and remind us no matter where we are and what has happened, we can and we do move forward for the better. Besides watching movies, reading plays, and other active things I do to help me cope with loss, writing seems one of the ways that helps me. My only hope that it can help you too.

I am a feminist. I believe that genders should be social equals to each other in all definitions and constructions. I do not believe that one gender is better than another nor superior to another. In movies and other entertainments, I am drawn to men and women who strive for and contribute to fighting for the end of social inequalities through the work they do on screen and off screen. When it comes to classic movies, often I have found great actors who plant, challenge, and explore through their performances ideas of social equality in their work. But, amidst the seeds, plants spring forth from them and create an impact in modern film because of their contributions. One of the plants that have sprouted from the seeds of the previous generation is an actor of whom I am going to pay tribute to today. The actor is Glenda Jackson.

Born in Birkenhead in the Wirral Chesire of England in May of 1936 to a bricklayer and charlady, Glenda was used to hard work at an early age. When she was very young, her father was recruited by the British Naval Fleet and worked abroad a minesweeper. She was educated at the West Kirby Grammar School for Girls where she graduated at sixteen. She then found work at a local pharmacy. Bored to death, she took interest in acting and auditioned to get in the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where she was accepted. At the Royal Academy, she made her professional stage debut in Separate Tables in 1957, having previous appeared as a uncredited Extra in the 1956 film The Extra Day with Richard Baseheart and Simone Simon.She also appeared on the television shows "ITV Play of the Week" and  "Z Cars." She studied with Peter Brook for four years and appeared in several productions. In 1963, she made her second venture into film as an uncredited Singer at Party in This Sporting Life with Richard Harris. The film did not fair well outside of a small audience, but Jackson continued her theatre work and appeared in the plays The Jew of Malta, The Persecution and Assassination of Marat As Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis De Sade, Hamlet, and The Investigation. The play, Marat/Sade, was an original and controversial work and was really drawing appeal, carrying the play to London and to Broadway.She also appeared on the television shows "The Wednesday Play," "Armchairs," and "ITV Saturday Theatre." Peter Brook decided to make it a movie, and keeping the theatricality of the piece. In 1967, Jackson reprised her role as Charlotte Corday in the film Marat/Sade with Patrick Magee, Ian Richardson, Michael Williams, Clifford Rose, Freddie Jones, and William Morgan Sheppard. Her performance managed to steal the show away from the leads and elevated her star status in England. In 1968, she made her first credited performance as Guest in Tell Me Lies with Stokey Carmichael, Paul Scofield, Peggy Ashcroft, and her first lead role as Vivien in Negatives with Peter McEvery and Diane Cilente. In 1969, she appeared on the "BBC Play of the Month," and then she was cast in a movie that forever changed her career and helped change the course of film history. The role was Gudrun Brangwen in Women In Love.

With Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, Jennie Linden, Eleanor Bron, and Michael Gough, Jackson shone through above an amazing ensemble playing an unconvetional woman who wanted to be sexually and artistically free and not limited by her gender role, no matter how society wanted to limit her. The film was controversial in that it was one of the first films after the Hays Code was abolished to show what new freedoms were available, and while American films were gradually beginning to strip down its restrictive layers, the bravery of this European film went ahead with it. The film would not be released in the United States until 1970, and when it was released, it captured America's attention as both feminism penetrated the national consciousness and the idea of sexual freedom was being discussed left and right. Her character was both emancipated and equal to her male peers. The following year, Jackson was awarded the Best Actress Oscar distinction of the previous year. She also became the first actress to win an Oscar for a performance that had a couple nude scenes.She officially was recognized internationally as an intense and versatile actress. But, recognition and fame was not something she wanted to put a lot of value in. Having enjoyed working with Ken Russell, she worked for him again, appearing as Nina (Antonia Milyukova) in 1970's The Music Lovers with Richard Chamberlain. In 1971, she started the year appearing in the miniseries "Elizabeth R," and then appeared in a string of movies, starting off playing Alex Greville in Sunday Bloody Sunday with Peter Finch and Murray Head, an uncredited performance as Rita in  The Boyfriend with Christopher Guest, Max Adrian, and Tommy Tune, then finished off the year as Queen Elizabeth in Mary, Queen of Scots with Vanessa Redgrave, Patrick McCoohan, Timothy Dalton, Nigel Davenport, Trevor Howard, and Ian Holm. Also that year, she appeared on the British comedy television program "The Morecambe & Wise Show" in what is called one of the funniest skits in British television. She was nominated for Best Actress for her work in Sunday Bloody Sunday, but did not care to attend the Oscars and she lost to Jane Fonda in Klute. In 1972, she played Alice in The Triple Echo with Brian Deacon. In 1973, she started off the year playing Lady Hamiliton in The Nelson Affair with Michael Jayston and Anthony Quayle. She then did the play The Collaborators at the Duchess Theatre. Her next film would be another memorable performance of hers that would seal her international fame and prove her versatility.

As Vicki Allessio in A Touch Of Class with George Segal, Paul Sorvino, and K Callan, Jackson showed that she could be as funny as she could be dramatic. Here, her technique of meticulous intellect shines through as her character navigates what resembles a perfect love affair with Steven Blackburn, played by George Segal. Not only is she his equal, but she brings such a force to her role in this as she does all her roles. Her character refuses to be treated like a card in a sexual game of poker, asserts her independence and does not compromise to satisfy her lover's ego. In the same year as the National Organization of Women was founded, Jackson brings the goals and nuances of feminism to the screen. It is said that comedies are more dramatic than a regular drama, and in this movie's case, as well as in the case of Jackson's performance, that proves it true. Jackson's Allessio is as sarcastic as she is smart, filling in the much needed tense air with moments of humor, but at the same time, giving it dramatic depth. The picture wouldn't carry at all if not buoyed by her strong performance. The following year she was nominated for Best Actress again at the Oscars, and won that year for Best Actress. She did not attend the ceremony as there was much work to be done on her next film, 1974's The Devil Is A Woman playing Sister Gertude with Claudio Casswell, Lisa Harrow, and Arnoldo Fod. In 1975, she returned to her stage roots as international fame was taking a toll on the hard work she was putting in in film. In 1975, she toured England and the United States in Hedda Gabler.Also that year, she played Solange in The Maids with Susannah York and Vivien Merchant, and Elizabeth in The Romantic Englishwoman with Michael Caine, Helmut Bager, and Kate Nelligan. In 1976, she started at the Old Vic in London in The White Devil, then reprised her stage role as Hedda Gabler in Hedda with Peter Eyre, Timothy West, and Patrick Stewart, and finished the year playing Sarah Bernhardt in The Incredible Sarah with Daniel Massey, Yvonne Mitchell, Simon Williams, and John Castle. Audiences were starting to lose touch with her, not that it mattered to Glenda, who was just glad to work continually as an actress. In 1977, she appeared as Sister Alexandria in Nasty Habits with Melina Mercouri, Geraldine Page, Sandy Dennis, Anne Jackson, Anne Meara, Jerry Stiller, Edith Evans, Rip Torn, and Eli Wallach. She also did the play Stevie at the Vaudeville in London.  In 1978, she appeared as Ann Atkinson in House Calls with Walter Matthau and Art Carney and Steve Smith in Stevie with Mona Washbourne and Alec McCowen, then returned to the Royal Shakespeare Company where she acted in Anthony and Cleopatra where she tourned England fir the next year. Regarding her film work, she appeared as Conor MacMichael in The Class of Miss MacMichael with Michael Murphy, Rosalind Cash, and Phil Daniels and as Tricia in Lost and Found with Maureen Stapleton and John Candy.

The eighties continued the cycle of Glenda's acting career that the late seventies tapered off to. As feminism itself was fastly becoming demonized, audiences began to not connect easily with her work as before, but, as someone who knew the value of working hard, Jackson continued amidst the changing tide of audience views. She began the decade playing Isabella Garnell in HealtH with Carol Burnett, James Garner, Lauren Bacall, Paul Dooley, Donald Moffat, Henry Gibson, and Alfre Woodard, followed by Isobel in Hopscotch with Sam Waterston, Ned Beatty, and Herbert Lom. She also acted in Rose at the Duke of York Theatre and Macbeth on Broadway. She also made a return appearance on "The Morecambe & Wise Show." In 1981, she played Patricia Neal in "The Patricia Neal Story." In 1982, she appeared as Sophie in Giro City, then went back to the London stage in Summit Conference. In 1983, she was in The Return of the Soldier with Julie Christie and Ann-Margaret, and in the play Great and Small in London. In 1984, she toured England and America with Strange Interlude, and she also appeared in "Sakharov" which won her rave reviews and rose her stature a little bit more. In 1985, she appeared as Neaera Duncan in Turtle Diary with Ben Kingsley, Michael Gambon, Jeroen Krabbe, and Nigel Hawthorne.In 1986 she was in Across From the Garden of Allah at the Comedy Theatre in London. In 1987, she appeared as Charlotte in Beyond Therapy with Julie Hagerty, Jeff Goldblum, Tom Canti, and Genevieve Page, then returned to London to do The House of Bernado Alba at the Globe Theatre. In 1988, she reprised her role in the play she last toured inthe television version "Strange Interlude." She also appeared as Herodias/Lady Alice in Salome's Last Dance with Douglas Hodge and Ken Russell. She also revived Macbeth on Broadway. As her acting career continued to dwindle, so did her enthuisasm of her profession, but she still had to work in order to put food on the table. In 1989, she appeared as Miss in Doombeach, Anna Brangwen in The Rainbow with Sammi Davis, Amanda Donohoe, and David Hemmings, and as Babs Flynn in Business As Usual with Stephen Dillane. In 1990, she put an end to her film career, appearing in the short The Real Story of Humpty Dumpty as Glitch the Witch and as Queen Caroline in King of the Wind with Frank Finlay. That year was also the same year that she was on stage last, appearing in Mother Courage and Scenes From An Execution. Considering diving into politics, she had to put up so much money for herself in order to go through campaigning, so she finished her acting career on television, appearing in "T-Bag's Christmas Ding Dong," "A Murder of Quality," and "The Secret Life of Arnold Bax." In 1992, she ran for Parliament of the regions of Hampstead and Highgate, and became the first Labour Party member to get the seat since 1966 for her district. In 1994, she was appointed the Labour Transport Team Campaigns Co-ordinator. In 1997, with a high elective margin, she was made Parliamentary-Under Secretary of State for Transport, where she managed the ins and outs of transportation in the city of London and other important national responsibilities of that sort. In 1999, she resigned from her position so she could run as a candidate for the Mayor of London, but did not secure the nomination from her party. In the past decade between 2000 and 2004, she was a member of the Greater London Assembly advisory cabinet for homelessness, holding regular meetings for rough sleepers and working with the Mayor to promote measures to tackle problems faced by rough sleepers in the city of London. Currently, as of 2010, she is still the representative of the district of Hampstead and Highgate, even though her constituent boundary has expanded to include the region of Kilburn.In her position she was a tough critic of Tony Blair regarding introducing top-up fees to England, as regarding in-politics relating to the war in Iraq, being a stalking horse candidate to Tony Blair if he did not stand down in 2005, and backed inquiry of the war in Iraq in 2006. She currently lives in South London and remains politically active.

She is not well known for her contributions to film due to the fact that many films outside of the ones that have been recognized are not mainstream, but then again, neither has she ever been mainstream herself in how she worked in them. Most of her films are over twenty-five years old, and by that definition, they are classic, but I think what makes her a classic movie star is not only due to her meticulous intellect that shaped her performances, but her theatrical tenancity to meet them head-on and deliver her best. Nowadays, people frown at the idea of an actor or actress appearing naked in a movie, because they think it demeans the quality of their work. Glenda Jackson's career reminds us that so long as being naked in a movie does not deviate away from what characters are trying to accomplish in the roles they were given, not to mention having that artistic freedom at all, is important to consider. Also, the fact that her performances captured a time when society was changing its views on what a woman can do and her characters often reflected these changes and showed emancipation growing from those that planted the seeds for it in the movies, and the bravery that fueled her performances and letting that plant grow, is what makes her a classic movie star.

This blog is lovingly dedicated to Elizabeth Taylor, who passed away today. Her brazen attitude that reflected in her professional choices helped make women in film like the one I just paid tribute to possible. May she rest in peace.

*In 2016, she appeared at the Royal Shakespeare Co.’s production of King Lear, where she portrayed King Lear, and in 2017, won an Evening Standard Award of Excellence for her performance. In 2018, she returned to Broadway, portraying A in Three Tall Women with Alison Pill and Laurie Metcalf. She is nominated for a Tony.* 

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Opinion: Why Wikipedia often overlooks stories of women in history

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By Tamar Carrol*, Lara Nicosia**

Movements like #MeToo are drawing increased attention to the systemic discrimination facing women in a range of professional fields, from Hollywood and journalism to banking and government.

Discrimination is also a problem on user-driven sites like Wikipedia. Wikipedia is the fifth most popular website worldwide. In January, the English-language version of the online encyclopedia had over 7.3 billion page views, more than 2000 percent higher than other online reference sites. 

The volume of traffic on Wikipedia’s site – coupled with its integration into search results and digital assistants like Alexa and Siri – makes Wikipedia the predominant source of information on the web. YouTube even recently announced that it would start including Wikipedia links below videos on highly contested topics. But studies show that Wikipedia underrepresents content on women.

At the Rochester Institute of Technology, we’re taking steps to empower our students and our global community to address issues of gender bias on Wikipedia.

Signs of bias

Driven by a cohort of over 33 million volunteer editors, Wikipedia’s content can change in almost real time. That makes it a prime resource for current events, popular culture, sports and other evolving topics.

But relying on volunteers leads to systemic biases – both in content creation and improvement. A 2013 study estimated that women only accounted for 16.1 percent of Wikipedia’s total editor base. Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales believes that number has not changed much since then, despite several organized efforts.

If women don’t actively edit Wikipedia at the same rate as men, topics of interest to women are at risk of receiving disproportionately low coverage. One study found that Wikipedia’s coverage of women was more comprehensive than Encyclopedia Britannica online, but entries on women still constituted less than 30 percent of biographical coverage. Entries on women also more frequently link to entries on men than vice-versa and are more likely to include information on romantic relationships and family roles.

What’s more, Wikipedia’s policies state that all content must be “attributable to a reliable, published source.” Since women throughout history have been less represented in published literature than men, it can be challenging to find reliable published sources on women.

An obituary in a paper of record is often a criterion for inclusion as a biographical entry in Wikipedia. So it should be no surprise that women are underrepresented as subjects in this vast online encyclopedia. As The New York Times itself noted, its obituaries since 1851 “have been dominated by white men” – an oversight the paper now hopes to address through its “Overlooked” series.

Categorization can also be an issue. In 2013, a New York Times op-ed revealed that some editors had moved women’s entries from gender-neutral categories (e.g., “American novelists”) to gender-focused subcategories (e.g., “American women novelists”). 

Wikipedia is not the only online resource that suffers from such biases. The user-contributed online mapping service OpenStreetMap is also more heavily edited by men. On GitHub, an online development platform, women’s contributions have a higher acceptance rate than men, but a study showed that the rate drops noticeably when the contributor could be identified as a woman through their username or profile image.

Gender bias is also an ongoing issue in content development and search algorithms. Google Translate has been shown to overuse masculine pronouns and, for a time, LinkedIn recommended men’s names in search results when users searched for a woman.

What can be done?

The solution to systemic biases that plague the web remains unclear. But libraries, museums, individual editors and the Wikimedia Foundation itself continue to make efforts to improve gender representation on sites such as Wikipedia.

Organized edit-a-thons can create a community around editing and developing underrepresented content. Edit-a-thons aim to increase the number of active female editors on Wikipedia, while empowering participants to edit entries on women during the event and into the future.

Later this month, our university library will host its second annual Women on Wikipedia Edit-a-thon in celebration of Women’s History Month. The goal is to improve the content on at least 100 women in one afternoon.

For the past four years, students in our school’s American Women’s and Gender History course have worked to create new or substantially edit existing Wikipedia entries about women. One student created an entry on deaf-blind pioneer Geraldine Lawhorn, while another added roughly 1,500 words to jazz artist Blanche Calloway’s entry.

This class was supported by the Wikimedia Education Program, which encourages educators and students to contribute to Wikipedia in academic settings.

Through this assignment, students can immediately see how their efforts contribute to the larger conversation around women’s history topics. One student said that it was “the most meaningful assignment she had” as an undergraduate.

Other efforts to address gender bias on Wikipedia include Wikipedia’s Inspire Campaign; organized editing communities such as Women in Red and Wikipedia’s Teahouse; and the National Science Foundation’s Collaborative Research grant.

Wikipedia’s dependence on volunteer editors has resulted in several systemic issues, but it also offers an opportunity for self-correction. Organized efforts help to give voice to women previously ignored by other resources. 

*Tamar Carroll is an Associate Professor of History at Rochester Institute of Technology 

**Lara Nicosia is a liberal Arts Librarian at Rochester Institute of Technology

(Disclaimer: The opinions expressed above are the personal views of the author and do not reflect the views of ZMCL)

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Why Wikipedia often overlooks stories of women in history

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Less than a third of biographical entries on Wikipedia are about women. aradaphotography/shutterstock.com

Movements like #MeToo are drawing increased attention to the systemic discrimination facing women in a range of professional fields, from Hollywood and journalism to banking and government.

Discrimination is also a problem on user-driven sites like Wikipedia. Wikipedia is the fifth most popular website worldwide. In January, the English-language version of the online encyclopedia had over 7.3 billion page views, more than 2000 percent higher than other online reference sites such as IMDb or Dictionary.com.

The volume of traffic on Wikipedia’s site – coupled with its integration into search results and digital assistants like Alexa and Siri – makes Wikipedia the predominant source of information on the web. YouTube even recently announced that it would start including Wikipedia links below videos on highly contested topics. But studies show that Wikipedia underrepresents content on women.

At the Rochester Institute of Technology, we’re taking steps to empower our students and our global community to address issues of gender bias on Wikipedia.

Signs of bias

Driven by a cohort of over 33 million volunteer editors, Wikipedia’s content can change in almost real time. That makes it a prime resource for current events, popular culture, sports and other evolving topics.

But relying on volunteers leads to systemic biases – both in content creation and improvement. A 2013 study estimated that women only accounted for 16.1 percent of Wikipedia’s total editor base. Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales believes that number has not changed much since then, despite several organized efforts.

If women don’t actively edit Wikipedia at the same rate as men, topics of interest to women are at risk of receiving disproportionately low coverage. One study found that Wikipedia’s coverage of women was more comprehensive than Encyclopedia Britannica online, but entries on women still constituted less than 30 percent of biographical coverage. Entries on women also more frequently link to entries on men than vice-versa and are more likely to include information on romantic relationships and family roles.

What’s more, Wikipedia’s policies state that all content must be “attributable to a reliable, published source.” Since women throughout history have been less represented in published literature than men, it can be challenging to find reliable published sources on women.

An obituary in a paper of record is often a criterion for inclusion as a biographical entry in Wikipedia. So it should be no surprise that women are underrepresented as subjects in this vast online encyclopedia. As The New York Times itself noted, its obituaries since 1851 “have been dominated by white men” – an oversight the paper now hopes to address through its “Overlooked” series.

Categorization can also be an issue. In 2013, a New York Times op-ed revealed that some editors had moved women’s entries from gender-neutral categories (e.g., “American novelists”) to gender-focused subcategories (e.g., “American women novelists”).

Next great American woman novelist? Roman Kosolapov/shutterstock.com

Wikipedia is not the only online resource that suffers from such biases. The user-contributed online mapping service OpenStreetMap is also more heavily edited by men. On GitHub, an online development platform, women’s contributions have a higher acceptance rate than men, but a study showed that the rate drops noticeably when the contributor could be identified as a woman through their username or profile image.

Gender bias is also an ongoing issue in content development and search algorithms. Google Translate has been shown to overuse masculine pronouns and, for a time, LinkedIn recommended men’s names in search results when users searched for a woman.

What can be done?

The solution to systemic biases that plague the web remains unclear. But libraries, museums, individual editors and the Wikimedia Foundation itself continue to make efforts to improve gender representation on sites such as Wikipedia.

Organized edit-a-thons can create a community around editing and developing underrepresented content. Edit-a-thons aim to increase the number of active female editors on Wikipedia, while empowering participants to edit entries on women during the event and into the future.

Later this month, our university library will host its second annual Women on Wikipedia Edit-a-thon in celebration of Women’s History Month. The goal is to improve the content on at least 100 women in one afternoon.

For the past four years, students in our school’s American Women’s and Gender History course have worked to create new or substantially edit existing Wikipedia entries about women. One student created an entry on deaf-blind pioneer Geraldine Lawhorn, while another added roughly 1,500 words to jazz artist Blanche Calloway’s entry.

This class was supported by the Wikimedia Education Program, which encourages educators and students to contribute to Wikipedia in academic settings.

Through this assignment, students can immediately see how their efforts contribute to the larger conversation around women’s history topics. One student said that it was “the most meaningful assignment she had” as an undergraduate.

Other efforts to address gender bias on Wikipedia include Wikipedia’s Inspire Campaign; organized editing communities such as Women in Red and Wikipedia’s Teahouse; and the National Science Foundation’s Collaborative Research grant.

Wikipedia’s dependence on volunteer editors has resulted in several systemic issues, but it also offers an opportunity for self-correction. Organized efforts help to give voice to women previously ignored by other resources.

The authors do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and have disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

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A dog in this race?

Q: Why do people say “I don’t have a dog in this race” when the word should be “fight,” not “race”?

A: Those people may be conflating two figurative expressions that mean the same thing: “I don’t have a horse in this race” and “I don’t have a dog in this fight” (“this” is often replaced by “that” or “the.”)

Those two expressions, as well as “I don’t have a dog in the hunt” and “I don’t have skin in the game,” mean the speaker doesn’t have a personal interest or stake in the outcome of the matter.

However, it’s possible that some of the people who say “I don’t have a dog in this race” may be referring figuratively to dog racing.

Despite the folksy, old-time sound of these metaphorical expressions, all of them are relatively new. They didn’t show up in writing until the second half of the 20th century, according to our searches of various databases. (A variation of the “dogfight” expression appeared in the early 1900s.)

We could find only one of these expressions in our language reference sources. The Oxford English Dictionary says “to have (one’s) skin in the game and variants” originated as a colloquial North American business usage.

The OED defines the expression as “to have a stake in the success of something, esp. to have a financial or personal investment in a business; to be closely involved in something.”

“It is not clear,” the dictionary adds, “whether the metaphor underlying this phrase is to do with putting oneself at risk … or with risking one’s money.” Both possibilities, Oxford says, have been suggested. (The word “skin,” as the dictionary explains elsewhere, can refer to one’s identity as well as one’s money.)

The earliest Oxford example for the usage is from the March 1976 issue of Infosystems: “I suggest that the various groups of participants should consider that they do not have any skin in the game.”

The latest OED example refers to an orchestra’s financial contribution to the performance of a piece of music commissioned by a patron: “We’ll pay for the commission, but we want the orchestra to have some skin in the game” (from the Jan. 23, 2005, issue of the New York Times).

The oldest “dog hunt” example we’ve seen is from an Aug. 10, 1988, op-ed column in the State Journal-Register (Springfield, IL) about the opposition of a state official, Jim Edgar, to a constitutional convention:

“That’s one reason Edgar has gone public on the constitutional reform issue, even though the conventional wisdom would be that he doesn’t have a dog in the hunt—that he doesn’t need to run the risk of making unnecessary enemies.”

The earliest “dogfight” example we’ve found is a comment by Vice President George H. W. Bush about financial questions concerning Geraldine Ferraro, the 1984 Democratic candidate for vice president, and her husband, John Zaccaro:

“I don’t have a dog in that fight” (from an Aug. 20, 1984, report on the United Press International newswire).

However, we’ve found a much earlier variation on the “dogfight” theme in the Aug. 28, 1919, issue of the Philadelphia Inquirer, which quotes a school official about the awarding of building contracts:

“ ‘I sympathize with the union men,’ he said, ‘but there is another dog in this fight—the non-union man—and we must consider him.’ ”

The oldest “horserace” example we’ve seen is a comment by Marlin Fitzwater, the White House press secretary for President George H. W. Bush, on the choice of David Duke, a former Ku Klux Klan leader, as the Republican candidate for governor of Louisiana:

“Basically, we don’t have a horse in that race” (from the Oct. 22, 1991, issue of the Houston Chronicle).

We found an earlier variation on the “horserace” usage in a Feb. 13, 1983, UPI report on the views of Democratic officials around the country about the 1984 Democratic National Convention:

“The highlight in Des Moines was a private luncheon with key state Democrats including former Iowa governor and senator, Harold Hughes, who still hasn’t picked his horse in the race.”

Finally, the earliest example we’ve come across for the “dog race” expression is from an article in the March 6, 1986, Seattle Times about plans to build new naval bases around the country:

“Rep. David Martin, R-N,Y., also defended the home-porting plan. While one big base is to be built at Staten Island, N.Y., Martin noted his district is 300 miles from there. ‘I don’t have a dog in this race,’ he said.”

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