#formulating arguments

[raffaellopalandri]

Book of the Day - I'm just saying

Today’s Book of the Day is I’m just saying, written by Milan Kordestani in 2023 and published by Health Communications Inc EB. Milan Kordestani is a social entrepreneur and author whose work aims to find common-ground solutions to systemic social and economic problems using civil discourse, education, and culture. He encourages his readers (in publications like HuffPost, Entrepreneur, and…

[tenderjock]

ooof just saw something that pissed me off.

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

arthur and john will bicker about whether or not they're going to see a movie and arthur will refuse to take him to one and john will grump about it and you're like ok this seems pretty normal. a little unfortunate for john maybe but that's a pretty familiar dispute. and then john will go "YES FINE i tried to murder that man. he was too friendly to you and it made me feel bad :( so i tried to kill him. through you. with an axe." and arthur will respond "okay sorry. i'll never speak to him again? is that ok? will that make you happy? sorry" without hesitation and with 100% sincerity and you go oh okay nvm

[elias-rights]

I saw a very good post about how Jon and Martin let everything slide when it comes to the other and am much too rusty to properly critique it... Tragic.

[imfromthemiddlekingdom]

Team back is so deeply unserious in any discussion that involves their favorites. None of their arguments pass muster as soon as you bring up something that contradicts their world view, if they say “I’m only talking about the show!!! Stick to the show!!!!” And you do, they turn around, cry bully and start bringing up the book instead.

Their rhetorics lacking, they have no understanding of dialectics going straight into subjectivity and would not take in universe laws into consideration when engaging in media. Not to mention their hypocrisy. It’s bad when someone makes fun of Luke but apparently it’s fine to call another kid that’s a decade younger than him “jaeheadless”?

Disgusting. Disappointing. None of their arguments would pass muster in any beginner writing classes anywhere for poor structure and forgoing dialectics and logic to try to influence people through subjectivity.

[panvani]

Tumblr pushing a post phrased in a somewhat politicking manner to me and I happen to disagree with the post but also I'm pretty sure the person who made it was literally just talking about their own experiences in a somewhat authoritative tone so I'm not going to like, take it up with them

[calypsolemon]

i know I've spoken on this extensively before but it's still so funny to me when ppl point out harumi blaming lloyd illogically for her parents death instead of pythor or whatever as if it's like an actual plothole of her character. If she was "logical" she wouldn't be a crazy evil bitch ok <3

[seventeendeer]

is that sex-averse little tumblr user actually a pearl-clutching puritan or do you just automatically assume everyone else forms opinions based on reptile brain first impulses except for yourself, master of critical thinking and always expressing yourself perfectly with no room for misinterpretation whatsoever

[facethemuses]

🌻

I get to tell you whatever I want!! you may regret it.

I vehemently believe that despite the pennyworth show claiming that s3 takes place in 1972 that it's actually takes place in 1974. not only because the timeline makes more sense if you factor s1 and s2 as being 1968 and 69, respectively, but also because it makes sense aesthetically.

like you're telling me 1972 we are in full swing of 70s fashion and there is barely any 60s left?

you're telling that in s1, america sends someone to the moon in 1967 rather than 1969 like in our world. the timelines are very different, and it's clearly an alternate universe but still.

it also could lead to problems in the future of the timeline given that it ages everyone by a good 2 years when this is still "allegedly" a gotham prequel which takes place in what is obviously the 2010s.

I have more evidence and arguments somewhere, but my brain has been fried today

[lesbianlenas]

need to find a legal issue to write 60ish pgs on as in it cannot be a policy argument it has to be a legal argument so like arguing that a law/court decision was wrong or comparing two and saying which is better or proposing a new legal standard/test etc by next week (just the topic not the 60 pgs) but the problem is that i was looking for women’s rights specific issues to write abt and when i was doing research for a topic literally EVERYTHING rn is just on abortion/reproductive rights which i really do not want to write abt at all 1. bc i hear so much abt it all the time & i would just like to research abt smth else 2. that is an extremely oversaturated area and it would be difficult to come up w a topic that someone else has not already written abt. so i am basically at a loss at this point guess i’ll die idk.

[paintedpineleaf]

tmagp13 notes: sam hurt alice's feelings. sam, you suck, you had no right to do that, and it was completely unwarranted, and i hate you. i hope you die.

[ratbastarddotfuck]

Answering your tags in the children’s rights post, no, not where I attended school (US public school). I wasn’t even aware the UN made a document about it until now, which is unsurprising for the US but nonetheless aggravating

every day I learn something more horrifying about the US education system.

I'm pretty sure we read the children's rights when I was in grade 5 here in Australia? so I would've been 8 or 9 or so. I have no idea if this was standardised so really idk what I'm surprised about. but man that was something that built a foundation of autonomy for me as a kid that I could fall back on when I was scared... I have the right to safety. I have the right to xyz. seems important I think.

[hindulivesmatter]

https://www.tumblr.com/tiredguyswag/739962425354387456/hinduphobia-is-literally-not-a-thing-in-india?source=share

I wanna see ur take on this.

Feel free to ignore otherwise.

I'm saying this in the nicest possible way, but I genuinely don't give a shit about these people anymore. Half their sources come from Al-Jazeera and the like. They support Hamas and like to harass us in our ask boxes. I do not take these people seriously.

So all I would like to say to their post is: "Ok bro sure"

[grahamcarmen]

What, to you is the stupidest anti-rc argument.

Always the " but omg they're siblings. "

Thats a stupid loop de loop argument thats been brandished since s1 as a [gotcha!you can't ship them!] when its really. not.

Because they're not actual siblings and certainly aren't bothering to act like it post vile isle. And having a platonic stage/element doesn't change that narratively their dynamic is /has/ changed and, even when taking out the romance possibility, must change. [And yes that does mean carmens pov of him]

What they had needs to evolve if they ever want to actually reconcile and STAY together. [and they both really freaking do want this]

...but like why do I have to take out the romantic possibility? They should kiss. Get married even. Love each other and not let go.

Look me in the eye and tell me that the way they were reunited in the story ep6 would vibe with u if zack & ivy or shadowsan and his brother got that treatment.

😒...it probably wouldn't ...

[Tbf most still don't but thats more because they hate the dear boy 😔 and the fact that carmen cares at all for him. 😩aw well, asi va, ep said maybe? I said yes please 😊]

[biggestthighestgeminiest]

Here are my combined thoughts about Barbie (2023) as I saw it on the 18th and have had more time to think abt it.

Some good, some bad - overall I very much enjoyed it, laughed my ass off, cried quite a bit, was enthralled by the set and costume design, but left feeling like some things were off and perhaps not accomplished in the best way. This will all be delivered in bullet points in a very chaotic and random way and is NOT ordered in importance omg. Anyways i love media analysis and I will probably not explain this in the best way but HERE WE GO

the casting was fantastic, everyone read the assignment and lived their campiest life, margot robbie was phenomenal and ryan gosling absolutely killed me with laughter, glorious glorious

set design, costume, props,, perfection when it comes to bringing the mattel products to life. bangin'

i had that stupid fucking dog that eats and shits. i lost my mind when he came on hsdgkhakh

the message of barbie being representative of all little girls is still very lost on me. the idea brought up when barbie speaks to the teens, where they tell her that she gave them unrealistic body standards- well this never really gets resolved at all. Yes there was a diverse range of Barbies but they were all still beautiful in a conventional way that adheres to western beauty ideals. every barbie has perfect hair and skin and clothes even by the end of the movie. and yes i guess barbie is supposed to be this "above everything else" sort of divine feminine beauty but is still not representative of most young girls. as hilarious as the line narrator's line about margot robbie is, it sort of knows itself, that it is showing us the most perfect looking women, but doesn't address it at all beyond a simple joke. honestly what will mattel do beyond this? i imagine people will be more than happy with this movie so they won't have to make any big changes. i mean their "curvy" fashionista isn't close to being fat, and i don't believe they will ever make a barbie that isn't conventionally beautiful... so this movie just sort of gets to say it's about accepting yourself without actual real-life substance if that makes sense? it reminds me of that cartoon of all those diverse yet conventionally attractive models, with diverse people who don't fit those standards standing outside that box looking angrily. what's the point of the film at the end of the day when not addressing all those people left out of the conversation? also made me annoyed that cellulite was still the big thing that barbie was concerned about, like really?? it's a bad example as people are coming to embrace cellulite and it's also relatively easy to hide, i don't think they would have margot robbie have like, idk, dark under eye circles or a double chin,, idk someone say this better than me but the cellulite thing annoyed me (as someone who has loads of it!!)

the plot was BONKERS and i for one don't really care about plot holes or cartoon logic. there were some things that made me overthink about barbie lore and then i thought to myself that it doesn't really matter. the campiness of it is more important. im sure it will deter some people but again i dont mind it being silly in that way as long as it delivers on its messages and themes, which it does to a certain extent

absolutely lost it at the you are kenough shirt, ljadhkglkhd

as i said in a previous post i predicted that it was going to be the mom who was paired with barbie. i loved the idea sm and it was very heartwarming

i CRIED when barbie first sat down and watched the humans around her living their life, she was so overwhelmed by so many emotions and it was such a simple moment of show-dont-tell and man did i weep :))

i LOVED the ken bits and i did feel as though there was a bit too much ken. especially at the end. but at the same time i loved the dance sequence. its hard loving it so much yet wanting it not to have been to prevalent. i felt like it took away from the barbies a bit which goes against the whole point of the movie????

um the barbie's plans of distracting the kens was... i guess reminiscent of all these spy or superhero movies where women use their beguiling nature against men to get the upper hand? like i am woman so i will flirt with man to distract while my team escapes and hooho it works :)) it was slightly different and not overly sexy or about flirting but it still had the same undertone. like really? the best way to get the other barbies out was to continue to conform to patriarchal standards and pump the ken's egos? surely there's a better way? yes the kens are idiots and turning them against each other works but it still felt a bit icky. i guess i just find this trope annoying being like... ok i am being taken advantage of men so i will USE the thing they oppress me for against them,, idk surely surely there's another way.

also America's character's plan of kidnapping the barbies and ... using very true and very valuable feminist lines to snap them out of it felt... weird? like what she was saying was 100% true but taking them out of context and almost using them as one liners made them feel less serious???? like making women "wake up" by just telling them about how the patriarchy takes advantage of them is just... idk. like in real life women who are indoctrinated and truly believe misogynistic things won't just wake up by being told such a line. and i know the barbies are brainwashed to forget their powerful feminist backgrounds so it's not entirely comparable to the women i just mentioned but... idk it felt disingenuous. i did laugh my ass off at the guitar scene but it still had that ickiness attached like..

i would watch this movie again, no doubt about it and i will definitely pick up on new things and easter eggs etc

mattel's board did make me laugh, perfectly casted and performed but again- mattel has its name on this. they know what they are doing. they know we will love this movie and not demand any change. it will still be full of men controlling the output of production. it will still put out products that don't reflect all young people's desires. it will still make products that uphold current societal norms. so having these buffoons in the board meeting just gets soured a bit when knowing these people will still be in power in real life....

the ruth bit made me cry and no i do not care that her ghost is just around. i loved it

the marketing team knows exactly what they are doing. the huge push of promotion made me gobble up all their interviews and im sure people will be buying all the barbie products. i am yet another victim of capitalism and i will thank them for it when i inevitably buy their you are kenough sweater

again i loved this movie despite all the bad things abt it. i love being critical of the wider impact of this movie while still enoying it as a piece of media and entertainment. i needed this movie and fuck it i want to go to barbieland so bad. i know i shouldnt. i love ken and think about ken more than i do barbie which is fucked up but the movie also played into it in a way,, as described before. i mean even ryan gosling being so iconic in all the interviews is adding into this lol. how many people are posting videos of him vs videos of the actresses i wonder.

also cockring ken. BUT HE WASNT WEARING THE COCKRING SO WHATS THE POINT EVEN???

the narrator was an interesting choice, personally wasn't a huge fan of it but it did somewhat fit with the rest of the cinematic language of the story so i can't say much about it

mattel knows exactly what its doing with putting its name on this movie. i think greta did a great job despite the constraints that mattel probably put on her,, it's hard to tell if the flaws of the movie come from the corporation's infuence or from the writer and director's creative decisions, most likely it's a combo of both. again i believe that the actors and designers and production team did a fantastic job with what they had, they committed to the bit. i would have loved for the movie to have been better, but it is still a great film in my book. as said before i would watch it again and would still enjoy it despite the flaws. the himbo part of my brain can shake hands with the media literacy one and emerge with an overall positive experience, yet PLEASE do not think this is the ultimate feminist movie, it is a step in the right direction, it could have been better, and i understand if you don't like it at all. but also i dont think it would be right to blindingly love it and call it perfect bc it's not.

[pinktinselmonstrosity]

this might be very niche but i love when you start watching a new youtube channel and you can immediately tell that the person is very smart and know what they're talking about and can formulate an argument!! there are so many dumb people on youtube pretending to be smart and god does it really show in contrast to people who are actually smart