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I told you I don't want the warranty.

I’m at Best Buy to get a pair of laptops for myself and my wife. Specifically, I’m at the counter checking out.

The manager has been helping me, but when I go to pay a sales associate takes over; I guess the manager has been covering for him. She was good at it, too - she’d persuaded me to get the most expensive of the three laptop models I was thinking about.

Sales Guy starts pitching the extended warranties. I politely decline; he keeps pushing them. I decline again, bluntly this time. He keeps pushing them. I ask him to just ring the laptops through. He keeps pushing the warranties, and after this many refusals he should really be letting it go. But he’s still on it, and talking down to me a little at that.

Around this point, the manager (who’s still in the department space) comes back and is just hovering behind him out of his sight, monitoring. He doesn’t notice her because the Computers section has its registers toward the middle.

I say this: “I’ve told you a few times that I don’t want any extended warranties. You clearly feel strongly about it; can you explain why? Maybe I’m missing something.”

The manager’s eyebrows go up a bit.

Sales Guy starts some kind of nonsense story about how these laptops in particular can be unreliable and it’s better safe than sorry.

Me: “Hm; that’s a good point. Better safe than sorry.”

Sales Guy: “Good decision! So–”

Me: “I think I’ll pass on these after all. Nothing worse than unreliable hardware.”

And I walk away, right past the manager, who is now staring daggers at the back of Sales Guy’s head.

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This clown sub-plot is gonna tie into the main Trump storyline at some point you just know it

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Stucky + memes

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why it matters to me, a gay kid, that Hikaru Sulu is gay

Why it’s important to me, a gay person, that Hikaru Sulu is canonically gay in the reboot movies?

I understand George Takei’s hesitation.   He doesn’t see Hikaru as gay because he never played him as gay in the original series.   He doesn’t believe that simply making a character gay is the way to support LGBTQA characters.  His is an opinion that I greatly respect, both as an actor who played the original character and as an out gay man and LGBTQA activist.   

At the same time something that I think Star Trek has always been known for is its diversity.   Of course, the Star Trek Beyond producers and writers could have written in another gay character.    Of course they could have written a character specifically for him to be gay and to Make a Statement.  But the reality is that a new character, one without history, one that was not grounded in the original series would not have the significance culturally that Hikaru Sulu has.

Hikaru Sulu.  Gold shirted, command division, pilot of the Enterprise, eventual Captain of his own ship, Asian-American, fencer, friend, crucial member of the Enterprise’s crew throughout the three seasons and multiple movies starring the original cast.

Hikaru Sulu has a weight to him as a character because he’s been around since the sixties.   Making his reboot character canonically gay is more than just a cultural statement.   I had a conversation with a friend where they expressed their concern about the choice, not because they disagreed with it necessarily, but because they believed it was merely a cultural statement.

Here’s the truth – it is a cultural statement.  But it’s also more than that.  It’s a character whose sexuality was never explicitly stated in the original series, who was significant in a show that celebrated diversity, who was one of the first Asian-American characters to be a primary role in a hit TV show.    Making this character gay says something about Star Trek and it’s choice to “boldly go” to where most major franchises will not go with their main characters.   The willingness to have a gay character is not merely a statement.  I would argue that it’s not even primarily a statement.  It’s a recognition of the reality of gay characters, gay actors, and gay people, and it’s incredibly refreshing.

So Sulu is gay.  He’s precious, and intelligent, and in this movie he is so much more than simply a out, happy, gay man in a committed relationship with a daughter.   He’s showing signs of the captain that he becomes in the original timeline in his courage and leadership in scenes where he protects, directs, and speaks for the Enterprise and its crew.    He’s an incredible pilot, a gutsy pilot, and a husband.   His sexuality is not the most important thing about him in this movie, but that’s part of why it is so nice to see.

So thank you, Justin Lin and the rest of the Star Trek Beyond team.  Thank you for making a creative decision that gave  lots of gay kids the chance to see themselves as part of a historic franchise in a way that did not feel forced.  

Now the only complaint that I still have is that the Sulu kiss was cut from the final movie.   I only insist that it makes the bonus features!

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“if feminists want equality they should support women being drafted!” is one of the best examples of why it’s bad that feminism is misconceived as being about equality to men rather than liberation from men. men create war, men created the draft, we don’t want anything to do with it. I don’t want equal opportunity to be sent to war to harm women in other countries.

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DON’T 👏🏽SAY 👏🏽 YOU'RE👏🏽 A👏🏽POET 👏🏽UNLESS 👏🏽YOU’RE 👏🏽NAME 👏🏽IS ✊🏽PHILIP👏🏽 AND 👏🏽YOU’RE 👏🏽A 👏🏽LITTLE 👋🏽NERVOUS 👏🏽BUT 👏🏽YOU 👏🏽CAN’T 👏🏽SHOW 👏🏽IT👏🏽

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U H A V E A T R A S H B L O G

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behind the name » leonard mccoy

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Oddly I was at the Baker Street Babes thing last night, and they said ‘you like trolling the audience’. And I said ‘I don’t’. I don’t like saying anything. But what you have to do is put out huge amounts of disinformation to try to bury all the secrets that are actually leaking out of there. Because you have a loyalty to the audience who would enjoy a surprise. You have to somehow find a way for them to have that delicious moment when something unexpected happens. And it’s not even just surprises you spoil. It’s not just the moment of the surprise. It’s not knowing what a story is going to do to you when the story begins. […] If you’re waiting for an hour for the big reveal, because you know it’s coming, it changes the nature of the show. It gets in the way of storytelling.

Steven Moffat

http://www.withanaccent.com/2016/07/28/sdcc-2016-sherlock-a-study-in-secrecy/

(via bakerstreetstorytime)

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The voice of reason, Rosa Diaz. 

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Reblog if you are part of the grumpy bisexual agenda

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“Fuck off.” - Tony / Charles “Language.” - Steve / Erik Photo: @shadowwalkercosplay