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cardshcrp · 6 years

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WIZARDING VERSE.

SUMMARY

Also known as the verse where Jean-Luc LeBeau went hey, you know what though? My kid is all grown up. I'm adopting this one. I don't care if it's a Veela. You know what would be really funny too? I'm going to make this kid my heir to piss off all the other purebloods and probably send them to magic school too. What are they gonna do, question me? I'm rich. Or, the story of how Remy LeBeau tries very hard to get through wizarding school and has to dye his hair every three days, tries not to burst into flames, and is a little tired of having to wear a Beauxbatons uniform even on exchange to Hogwarts, as it involves a cravat and he can be summed up effectively as a French blueberry.

TIMELINE

Jean-Luc LeBeau visits a Veela community in Hungary, offering a trade deal for Veela-made trinkets to be sold in his establishment in order to provide the village a way to rebuild after damages sustained in the war. He does this through a member of the community he had adventured with in his younger years and who in good standing vouched for him; the deal is accepted and contract-writing begins in earnest.

A few months into the agreement and on one of his visits, Jean-Luc witnesses his old friend’s daughter have an illegitimate child and attempt to pass it off to her mother, refusing to take responsibility for it. Adelaide is uncertain, and Jean-Luc offers a compromise, promising to take the child and raise it as his own, as his only son is now an adult and he has plenty of time and resources. Eventually the family agrees, and Jean-Luc takes the child back to France with him, calling in several favors with the Ministry in order to register the baby Athalie as an orphaned Muggle-born witch and adopt her* as his own, also placing a falsified Trace that will not react to any Veela-specific magical use.

Jean-Luc promptly learns that Veela babies are rather volatile, and is forced to come up with many, many excuses as to why he is repairing numerous singed portions of his home, but dotes on his new daughter anyway.

At around the age of seven, the first signs of dysphoria and distress begin to emerge, and while Jean-Luc and Henri have no prior experience with these matters they encourage Remy to express himself as he pleases. Ministry records are altered again to reflect that he is male.

At age eleven, Remy enters Beauxbatons as a first-year student, as per his request. He makes the clear decision to remain in the wizarding world rather than return to a Veela community and in fact decides that he will take over the family business later, much to Jean-Luc’s delight, and is named heir to the LeBeau house. Having developed a complex routine to perform nonverbal magic but disguise it as best as possible by simply speaking spells in class and wearing a glamour to color his hair, Remy is able to start passing as a mediocre wizard. He keeps a cat named Oliver, who suffers the tragic fate of always wearing a very large bow round his neck.

In his third year, Remy becomes a Chaser for the Beauxbatons Quidditch team. He also hits puberty, resulting in natural Veela charm emerging and leading to more than a few awkward confessions from his classmates and silently confused male students.

At fifth year, Jean-Luc requests (and is granted) permission to allow Remy to study as an exchange at Hogwarts under premise of wanting him to be comfortable internationally with other wizards, as he will be running an international business. The length of his stay will vary according to interaction, but the default is set to one academic year.

Remy eventually scrapes by as a mediocre wizard with a specialty in potions and an odd proficiency for fire magic. After his graduation he takes over as proprietor of LeBeau’s Curiosities, with his older brother Henri taking care of finances and his father often running the shop while he travels seeking new inventory. His overall reputation is that he is very attractive, a bit odd, but pleasant, and while a few people may have their suspicions, they don’t attempt to pursue them.

* Remy is referred to as female and birth name here as he is an actual baby and has not grown to an age where he can express his identity, and so this is what his father called him prior to that point, obviously.

ASIDES

Can be set in a few different time periods for convenience, but typically hovers at the end of the First Wizarding War, meaning Remy’s birth was ~1971.

The LeBeau family is, more or less, essentially French pureblood royalty in the wizarding world, having emigrated from Ethiopia about three centuries prior and in excellent community standing. This means that a - Remy’s adoption was an absolutely massive scandal, particularly because Jean-Luc claimed he was Muggle-born, and b - he is unfortunately quite used to attempts at matchmaking as the attractive heir to a very wealthy home. Part of the reason he decided to go to Hogwarts for a bit was to avoid the Boudreauxs’ pushing for an arranged marriage.

As a Veela, he has a few more struggles and a few less worries than your average wizard. For instance, most magical creatures will not attack him - he is perceived as very pretty and generally harmless to most of them. (Though by contrast some may wish to keep him, which can be equally problematic.) He also has an affinity for fire magic, and an unconscious charm that makes him rather appealing to most people. His dance and song, were he to exercise them, would be literally enchanting, so he doesn’t. He also has a very quick temper that he isn’t able to express without outing himself as a magical creature, and thus struggles to keep it in check, meaning sometimes he just storms off without explanation. He also tends to be excessively snarky because of this, as he’s generally on edge to at least some degree.

According to canon lore, Veela are predominantly biological female. One possible reason that they are so seductive to (particularly AMAB people of) other species may be due to this imbalance, which might have simply been the result of evolution through the years. Since they are already known to be compatible sexually with humans, it’s also reasonable to assume that they’re compatible sexually with most humanoids, possibly as an innate method of species preservation, whether or not it is exercised.

His hair grows quite quickly and dye doesn’t last long in it at all, but is more practical than expending energy on glamours constantly, so after his first year he simply learned to cut and dye his hair every few days. If he forgets to, silver-blonde roots may be visible and lead to questioning.

In order to have a passable wand at all, the family had to commission one made with Remy’s own hair as the core. (Ollivander would be horrified.) As a result he is somewhat able to channel through it, which helps him scrape by in spellcasting courses, but the scope of his natural abilities does not change and his affinities lie mainly in pyromanipulation and magic to do with appearance, though he is capable of other minor feats such as extremely basic telekinesis and some divination.

Remy has found that Muggle medical science does not appear to work on his physiology, and that any gender reassignment in magical terms is beyond his capability and his family’s, so it should be noted that he has not changed in body whatsoever and so just binds his chest and expresses as male, with glamours to reflect facial hair and the like later in his life.

LeBeau’s is a traveling magic shop that appears in set locations all over the globe without a set schedule (because Jean-Luc is petty and likes watching snooty aristocrats trip over themselves to buy the fancy things before he disappears again). It is known for having a knack at recovering lost family treasures, and does offer less powerful and pricey trinkets for more casual browsers, much to some patrons’ dismay. Locations include: Diagon Alley, a Moroccan market, the New Orleans vodun community, Hogsmeade, Paris, Cairo, and a few more.

Triwizard plotting is also available, with Remy either as a competitor or accompanying hopeful.

tagging @prctettcre since this is your fault; i feel like @noxtm may have asked me about a verse at some point and my sad, tired butt didn’t get around to it. and @deviltoothed ’cause i tag you in everything.

#AU INFO.#♣ AU — WIZARDING.

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Davos 2019: 'I’m the boss, he’s the spouse'

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Image caption Ann Cairns is a rarity: a female senior executive of a global company

When Ann Cairns’ husband was introduced to Joe Biden at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, the former US vice president assumed that he was the executive he was meant to be meeting.

But Mrs Cairns is the vice chairman at financial services giant Mastercard, not her husband.

She laughs as she recalls the event and gestures frantically at herself saying: “[I was thinking,] ‘It’s me, I’m the one you’re here to see.'”

It was an easy mistake to make, she admits. Her husband, a retired geography teacher, is tall and imposing – the stereotypical image of a leader. At 5ft 4in (163cm), Ann is relatively short and, of course, a woman.

It may be 2019, but over a year after #MeToo turned rapidly from a campaign against sexual harassment and sexual assault into a broader movement highlighting gender inequality, little seems to have changed.

Senior women at the top of global companies like Ann are still rare.

This year at the annual gathering of the political and business world elite, just 22% of attendees are women, up from 20% two years ago.

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Progress is painfully slow, despite a quota system for large firms that forces them to bring one woman for every four male attendees.

Practical steps

It’s an imbalance that reflects the situation in the broader corporate and political world.

At the current rate of progress, it will take 108 years to close the gender gap and 202 years to achieve parity in the workforce, according to the World Economic Forum’s latest global report.

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Image caption Mrs Cairns has been a regular attendee at Davos over the last few years

At Mastercard, one practical way the company has tried to shift perceptions is by standardising paternity and maternity leave globally. Introduced two years ago, men are entitled to two months on full pay under the scheme, and women, four months.

Statistics from its first year in 2017 showed 70% of the leave available to men was taken up.

Questions over whether someone due to be appointed may take time off for children now apply to both men and women.

“Everybody is in the same boat,” says Mrs Cairns.

She started out in business as the first female engineer to work on offshore oil and gas rigs in the UK. Despite the slow progress, she says firms are addressing inequality more effectively than in the past.

Crucially, instead of women “preaching to the choir” at female-only networking events, men are being involved in the discussion more often. It’s a shift she believes will really help drive change.

Gender pay gap ‘everywhere’

Five years ago, at cloud computing giant Salesforce, chief executive Marc Benioff questioned why there were so few women at senior management meetings.

Image caption Chief people officer Cindy Robbins came up with the idea of an equal pay audit at Salesforce

He subsequently insisted that a third of the staff attending must be female. The shift enabled Cindy Robbins, who worked in the HR department, to meet Mr Benioff and suggest an equal pay audit, something which is not mandatory in the US.

When Mr Benioff asked her if they had a problem, she said she didn’t know.

Yet its first audit three years ago revealed that a gender pay gap was “just everywhere”, he admitted in a CBS Interview. “It was through the whole company, every department, every division, every geography.”

It’s been an expensive reckoning. So far the firm has paid about $9m (£7m) to even out the gap across its 33,000-strong workforce.

Salesforce has now done the audit three times, last year also looking at race and ethnicity.

“We’re trying to get better at it every year. Unless you can say your processes are perfect, it will never be completely solved,” says Ms Robbins, who is now the firm’s chief people officer.

Get to the truth

While most people assume they are not biased and make fair decisions, she says providing hard data has been a powerful motivator for change.

As well as the annual pay audit, the firm now collects figures on the gender split of promotions and new hires.

Nonetheless, Salesforce, like most tech companies, remains male-dominated. At the end of last year, less than a third of its staff were female, despite hiring 4,000 women.

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Image caption Ketchum’s Barri Rafferty is optimistic that change is taking place

Barri Rafferty, the chief executive of global public relations firm Ketchum, says she’s surprised that the battles she thought would have ended with her mother’s generation, are continuing.

Like Mrs Cairns, she too was mistaken – several times – at Davos for an accompanying spouse, rather than a participant, but believes growing awareness means such mistakes are becoming less likely.

She says finding out the truth about your organisation, rather than what you think is the truth, is important.

“Every organisation needs to stop and take a look at their culture and not downplay any concerns,” she says.

Ketchum itself has created an external advisory board to bring in fresh advice and insight into its culture. It also conducts regular short surveys of staff about how they feel about promotion opportunities, pay, and the firm generally.

‘Over-mentored, under-sponsored’

Diversity isn’t just about doing the right thing, it makes commercial sense. A report from management consultancy McKinsey, covering 366 public companies in a variety of countries and industries, found those that were more ethnically and gender diverse performed significantly better than others.

“We all know this intuitively,” says Sheila Penrose, chairman of property firm Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) and a contributor to WEF’s agenda. “But when you can measure it and articulate it within the organisation it becomes a more compelling argument.”

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At Davos, she says gender equality has been embedded into broader themes around education and the future of work, a shift from the outpouring of anger after #MeToo which she believes will prove more constructive.

Now she says men at firms have to be willing to put their reputation on the line to improve the situation.

“Women tend to be over-mentored and under-sponsored,” she says. In other words, women tend to be given advice rather than opportunities.

Despite all the depressing statistics, there is one that suggests the future may not be quite so gloomy.

This year at Davos, over half of the so-called “young global leaders” – 100 people under the age of 40 invited to WEF each year – are women.

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throwingideasatthewall · 3 years

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Clone Wars The Mandalore Plot

Season 2 Episode 12

- - 🖕 (I’m sorry that’s just for the morale (Moral) After last episode. .

Any way,

“15 Hundred,”

Five Leaders

One clearly more important,

The Galactic senate was closer.

Republic Senate

Leader

Duchess Saltine . Secretly building her own army . . .

Her business. . . . Separatist ...

She’s already separate ....

Also there’s a hologram so it must be true . Never mind Yoda’s all powerful gossip mill ever being wrong

Can’t have that - So they’re sending Obi-Wan and Anakin to snoop,

Or just Obi-Wan *Pffft*

Claims

Going to snoop - Going to get some tea for master Yoda- -

(I won’t do the standard valley girl- Gossip clichés)

Damn Aight!

Blue Eyes!

Blue Theme

Snar-king

Also is that bitter- ness-

Okay.

Big!

(Scale is nice)

Whelp, White

Big Doors.

Aight Whelp-

Skipped tour

Also, Painting Of Self ... Aight ... Glass . . It’s Glass. (Am I supposed to be getting something big and grand . . Or Holy? . It’s the same as any big building ... With glass

... Does Obi-Wan just have a thing for glass we never knew about ?

Emotions what am I supposed to feel?

Okay ... Recognized ... Also who is this guy? . He’s not really wearing the blue themed clothes of the guards ... and everyone else ... Prime Minister Alec ... Authority assumer . . Public servant

One authority assumer to the other..

Also, like there’s anything else ... Like he still a “peacekeeper” In his job description No?

They haven’t switched it to military yet (Quite) ... False ... IDK ... Yoda’s got holograms. ...

And the damn rumor mill. ... Can’t piss the guy off . . Republic ... Is this a trap? ...

The Dutchess Satine values peace more than her own life.

But no account ability.

Views

What?

....

Past?

Okay yeah he was out of order

But that immediate sharp response Was pretty damn harsh ...

Like dude sounded like he had stabbed his toe against the table —— This dude took it to murdered it’s family ... Why?

Dude ... Assuming a lot of authority . Over the tone .

Like whose family did Obi-Wan’s statement kill

Damn tox.. and sharp . . . Severe ... Are you certain? . . . Damn you want to check their bodies... . . . Ser- iously, You’re here to collect a statement ... (And maybe grab some tea for Yoda... ..

Yeah like dude escalated it to a whole new level ... But you are not helping ... Mandalorian armor ... Right

- How-

Dude seems ,truthful-

Also why is dude here getting the blight of Obi-wan’s rage.

Well

Not exactly formal..

‘Shining Jedi Knight’

What?

‘Again’

Should- I recognize this person

I Distinct

Also did they send someone with the baggage?

After all these years you’re more beautiful than ever

There was no emotion in that line

Flat

But then again maybe he’s moved on ... Is a knight

...

No Attach ment-

Accuses

Treachery

It’s not treachery it’s- leaving neutrality-

But yeah he is a gosp.

Also yeah we just switched towns from a unprofessional to professional (Narc Terms)

Okay

One dude

Why?

He had emotion ... For a moment ...

Aight

Okay..

Right...

—- Right

“Violence,”

Claiming authority over a whole lot of people ...

Dark ... Commandos

He couldn’t have possibly been one guy

Jedi .

Everyone-

People AUTHORITY

. trust worthy

. I know we sound defensive.

What?

No-

Okay, seriously, what is with the tone ...

Like yeah the dude was sharp ...

But not in a defensive way...

In a Whoa WTF Dude, Where Did that come from-

On the Whoa someone’s not in a good mood

Nothing defensive

Dutchess flips on a dime . But that’s on a snark to professional Scale ... Only person acting sus is that dude that has no reason to be here and we have no idea what he’s doing

And I’m kind of worried that’s because the authors forgot to act- ually put anyone acting sus

So just had dude say it

Like yeah it’s obviously him that caused the problem

She has a valid point

They are 100% snoops;

And if you didn’t want him here why did you allow him.

But mostly I’m on Obi-Wan who they continue to treat as a kicked puppy ...

Like no he was fine. till a few minutes ago

And is equally guilty (Particularly of the things he’s accusing him of)

And the tone suddenly changed To a smaller Quasi-one for him

He isn’t innocent

And I don’t know why this keeps happening to the Male characters

When an actual point is brought up against them

But like he was fine taking pot shots At Dude,

Now there’s suddenly accountability

The HECK, Writers,

Oh god,

This is turning Boomer - And the mandate dictating you learn the baggage of the past (Because dear frick If the past Fixed The Past, Absurd)

And not like the present would be non-tox enough not to start shit

...

There seems to be a clear imbalance between How the male characters are written and how the female characters are written

Note; I don’t give a fluff for gender Just that there’s a clear dip In quality emotion

When one it identifies as such Is on -screen . . .

We have three main female characters;

Padme; Who is characterized as a shrew (Fine you can cover to toxic Relation ships)

Ahsoka; A child who acts far beyond her age (Unchildlike Mature) And is held to unfair accountability by the narrative (And assuming Anakin is an adult This is only a problem with the female characters Barisse, Quickly Suffer- Ing Similar...

But not anyone else (The two other un-gender ed Padawans React Ing In Properly Ordered Fear (About)

Now Saltine Characterized Well Her actions pro-claim her A pretty fair Leader (If snippish) Which is fine if you want to write about (Tox Ic And enabling relationships) - The issue. - is the way - The male leads Are portrayed..

Look at this;

What emotion is it trying to portray?

Anger? Jealousy?

Heartbreak

Innocence.. Is the only valid answer I could Come up with..

When I call it,

- “ A kicked puppy dog look,”

I mean;

“Lowering the standards to animalistic To avoid accountability,”

It’s Cheating

If it was hurt, the irises Would Be Dilated Narrow-ed

Lip straight

This doesn’t portray any human emotion

It’s cheating

-Good thing- I won’t ever have to worry about holding Obi-Wan or any of the others accountable -With puppy dog- And it never happens with any of the female characters

Always 100% accountable

Even when they shouldn’t be. .

- Amidala, Saltine And Ahsoka are characterized as shrew, unreasonable (Kicker of puppies) And abomination

While our (main) male characters ... Nothing . The second consequence comes a knocking The puppy Dog eyes - - Come Out-

[Which is unfair To characters of any Ident-ification-

——

That’s enough about the character rants Back to the story

Aight

Seriously, What?

[I know that’s like being threatened by the army..”].

But, dude’s reaction was tame.. ...

Layout keeps changing . [Not a consistency issue, Just a confusion one,]

Okay - No Emotion - Forced

???

Prospere

Also that was a tonal change ...

Whoa ...

Where did these emotions suddenly come from??

Group Death watch

Great

Tox inside enabling ... Re-negades Hey plot relevan -ce

Violence — War

Tox

The very definition of tox

Great

Oh you’re going to solve it with violence..

Aight..

Work- Ing-

Criminals

On going invest-igation - Wide-spread Small

She clearly noted it was small..

Move-ment

Exact-ly

Hooligans

Vandalize

Aight, Adults,

Nothing More

Cus-tody

Con-cord -ia Dude stop being a doubting asshole .

Thank God cut away from this unhealthy-

Anyway, It cuts to what is assumed to be the moon.

Al right just a small camp

If the tox people want to quarantine themselves . . . O-kay . . . Well-

Jedi

Upset

You decide The people you Inter-act With (And tolerate presence of )

Support the Death Watch . Your small club ..... house Isn’t that much Of a concern to him . . . And clearly wasn’t serious . . Duchess Saltine. . . Peace -loving - - TOO subtle. . (She’s still an enabler)

So I wouldn’t get too wo- rried

And

“Promise,”

No he doesn’t . . . this seems pretty particularly a “screw you move”- Sit Ua- tion - How-

Yeah this is a pretty “screw you” situation

Take Over

Whelp.

That’s Am- bitious.

Once the senate

Mandalore

Look, that’s unlikely

Like she didn’t just explain yeah it’s nothing don’t worry about it . . .

Like unless you watch something go down right in front of you.

That’s it —

The “guy who caused the problem, is dead

You’ve been given advanced warning about a group

No reason to escalate

Military Pr esence

Unlike the usual assumed authority they are surrounded with,

This will

piss them off.

Most Dis tast ful

dude’s really assuming the worst but then again that’s the Dark side’s MO

Death Watch

This is really some conspiracy theory territory.

Urgh, this plan really sucks.

Death Watch

Well it’s small, they have armed guards...

Gonna go with no

Back here

Peace-keeper-

Sure

Front lines

Of conflict

Yeah, As in they caused it by assuming authority Inst- - A job he had no authority to do and basically covers all peaceful resolution - Insinuating all the rest of humanity is savages ready to tear themselves apart, and only this dude’s influence - stops the

You know- they could study peace instead. Write articles about it, Do Works. Like you don’t need to start a war... Or assume authority..

To enjoy peace

And to keep it

If it can be done with suffering, it could be done very easily without,

The work of a peacekeeper is to make sure conflict does not arise

No that’s extreme- Authority Assumption

If someone’s going to be a douche bag,

A peacekeeper (Accountable) As someone who doesn’t enable bad behavior (When it is enacted against them,)

And holds them selves Acco untable,

Desc-ription

And your’s is. . . . Seriously both these two have a pretty... negative view of the world. Both operating under a similar; Must control the world, Otherwise every-thing will fall apart- - Though Obi-wan Has A Point; In the fact that his Is a slightly more Per-son al- I must do my part to protect the world, While Salt -ine- “I must get others to pro tect Others They still draw (erroneous) blanks At the “Anyone needs saving from anyone” . . . . Thing-

Realism doesn’t mean terrible . . . (If anything it means having pride in your humanity and what it has accomplished). It’s the very model.. of a good thing. If you’re not toxic)

Ideals . . . “Abandon” - ?

Response

Political convenience . .. More specifically the convenience... of self-destructive.. tendencies

Whelp

What The Frick?

When did this happen?

Seriously leaving unwanton anything should’ve been a warning sign. ... How did no one notice the apparent- Un- Wanted - Addi-tion? - Okay

Well hope you have a good enable healers on staff.

Or maybe just healers..

Depending on the awareness - Okay

Smoke

Hool igans.

Yeah they could’ve

(And we’re probably- going to discover that they did through very complicated means.

Like seriously Obi-Wan jumping to con clusions-

Like five people got slightly inconvenienced

Are we sure it is in a smoke bomb?

Because that seems pretty likely

Considering we haven’t seen any damages so far.

And no one looks dead

Also I guess it’s time to act like a reasonable adult and let Saltine handle her own problems.

Off-world Er

So the Separ atists.

Are you sure of that

You’re the one that brought up that it couldn’t be “Deathwatch”

Stop bla-

Eat shit Obi-Wan

You were wrong

Okay, time to be an authority assumer and launch an attack on those assholes

(What?)

She’s overall peace

She was planning...on bringing those guys in anyway

Hit them. . Hard. This goes far beyond vandalism..

Then show the actual dead..

Because all we saw..

Was a smoke bomb and these guys coughing

That’s pretty damn -close to vandalism

Next to lighting firecrackers..

In the park. . .

Political statement against your government Oh No,

(Is that supposed to be threatening?)

Seriously all they did was throw a smoke bomb and heck off

You

Don’t act surprised.

Palace

Here

(Oh no they might throw another smoke bomb?)

You’re just gonna let him,

Like he has a point

[But still the intensity is way too high for what they’ve shown,]

Oh no, Smoke,

Inter-view

What the heck who gave him that authority?

Like; He’s just some random Senate peacekeeper

That’s...like

No,

Also yet no one needs medical attention so just stay right there

Dude couldn’t have possibly been injured in the attack

Or fled the scene

Or activated whatever it was with remote detonation

And also it’s up-to the apparently neutral peacekeeper instead of any local authority

Like your job is to dispense food and make sure everyone’s ok

And yeah their military and “peacekeeping” Sections are Com- bin Ed (And I’ll admit I don’t know much About assumed authority Lines)

But pretty sure that’s like a dude in military uniform (Out of Country) Yelling that he wants to question people. (Like you don’t have the authority to do that)

And is a pretty good way to get a rock chucked at your head.

Make sure everyone is okay,

Then what about selective immediate accountability thing going on here can happen (Appease Logic,) Scene

Dude’s the guards just freaking, bowed to him

I don’t think- Police National En-for cers - Are usually so kind

To extra- Ven Ous Forces In- ter Ven- Ing- - Like this was exactly what Saltine was talking about . . Overextension of authoritative power

(Not acco-untability just what’s happening)

What?

Was that the carrier?

Who?

You there

Dude, that’s a normal reaction to a military professional Claiming bullshit power,

Dude could’ve probably mistaken you for the terrorists..

Aight, Right,

Also an attack just happened,

(Yeah it’s a little delayed but he could’ve just gotten news)

Okay

Talk

Dude, the dude just saw an attack, saw an individual standing over the body of their leader (armed Jedi- Or Sith) I said person claiming to “stay there”, I’m not saying what he’s doing is right, But you’re having a damn unsympathetic- React-

Older Gentle- Men-

(You know I’m surprise no one blames Obi-Wan, After all, He’s the one that lead her out here,

Would’ve made sense for the carrier Guy, The one that was acting sus, to be the per-petrator

(And he would have the knowledge to frame Obi-Wan)

That would’ve been nice,

Hurt you

You didn’t

(Ergh)

Seriously your leader was just-

No one wanted to take her to a healer?

After?

(Like she didn’t want to get the smoke inhalation thing checked out either?)

Fair (But kinda of stupid)

Yeet

Frick

Movie, You- did not earn the tone to make that work

Seriously dude could be saying “I won’t work with a terrorist,” - Also wow a cult full of old people

Real . intimidating

Well time together of the guards hold a funeral for that guy (Standard Prac -tice) And go kick that moon base.

No- reas-

He died

Yeah, Sucked

But a) don’t make buildings that tall And b) he did that - Damn - Aight - Re- action - Why - Whelp

Ahh, No,

He was all splayed out

There’s nothing dignified about the position

... Emotions Seriously what am I supposed to feel.

Why is there holy music playing in the background?

Also no one wants to get a healer?

Like I know he fell But seriously,

Not even gonna try

(Like I know I’m harsh, But even I would try..

Do Some- thing What-

Why-

Also Obi-won is this the time?

Whelp.

Com-cord-ia

Seriously, and that’s not just do you know a coi-ncidence-

Our moon

But what did he actually say?

[Because if it’s ‘I thought he was a terrorist’, Then fair,]

Body

Escort

Seriously are we not covering what he said?

Like the story seems to be lam -basting him for being Con-cord -ian

But I assume innocence until proven guilty,

.. .

Progress

You can’t even speak their dia-lect

Yeah and I know (body language)

But

“Especially when you’ve just been involved in the death of a colleague,”

She’s got a point?

Seriously, ever since Obi-Wan got here there’s been nothing but destruction

I’m surprise she didn’t kick him right there right now and is like this is why we’re neutral

Like this could’ve been some good story tension. .

So what is the actual plot?

The guy who caused the incident

is dead

The group is extremely small And unable to prevent arrest,

Cord- Random Couple

“I didn’t kill him,”

Dude, seriously

If you were smart you’d leave

And let Duchess handle the problem which she was clearly doing

Before things went to very light shit - At arrival - i’d back away too . “I Know,”

How?

You know what also would’ve been a good conflict?

Duchess arriving in the middle of it..

Only hearing the man say “Don’t do it,” And seeing him fall off..

Obi-wan’s “Catch,” Gesture ...

Mistaken for Shov -ing - Duchess not seeing his face —— Showing the flaws of her assumed guilty - Mind Set-

And make for some good emotional tension - Instead-

Why I’m still talking to you

Despite having nothing to go on besides faith which seems beyond my general compr- ehensive philos- ophy -

(Con sist ent- characterization what’s that?

-Normally I don’t work on the rag on the chara- cterization because yeah adults can change what they do

(but I do think it- could be a bit more knowable - The changes seem to happen randomly - and with little sentiment connection - Or type Of Pre amble,

Don’t get me wrong - It does happen - Rarely - I just think it could be done with a bit more delicacy and consistency - And Care - What is that reaction - What?

Okay..

Alright, What?

Why?

Okay

That’s happen - Ing

First

Right

Okay..

Least they brought a guard..

Aight, Okay,

Con-cord

That’s- a different look

Not Gonna- Com pare-

Agricultural

Wait is that a different planet?

What?

Mining Base

Yeah let’s fuck with Mother Earth

/Con- cord

That can’t possibly go wrong - Forests

Oh, yeah

Dear Frick

Finally growing back-

So you stopped with that?

(No burning pollutants in the air?)

Okay, Well

A more well-established palace than hers.

Which just saw a door and then there was an even a smaller door

And glass..

Appar-ently has a thing for glass.

Whelp-

Okay-

Wait-

The highly industrialized mass of cities- is the Galactic palace

But the former mining facility is a beautiful orderly castle in the middle of a green field.

I think someone got the sets messed up...

Why?

[This is really messed up]

Also yeah there was some kind of terrorism and things got blown up...

That’s weird..

Council -

V-sla

Also one of your guys totally died-

Members

Wouldn’t-

[Okay, hear me out, I know I’m doing a lot of this;

What if this conversation happened before, In the castle;

To give us a list of suspects; And making sense; As she is the top ruler of everything

And then, we broke into these little bits

[Establish the characters

Then make them plot point,]

Also, this wasn’t the scene shown earlier, Was it?

Separatists

That would’ve been a good line earlier

...

Truth

This was the man who murdered

So wait, you did know about that?

So why were you acting like the Separatist claim was so out of the question?

Correct; Reaction “Yes ma’am, of course ma’am sorry about what happened,

We-”

Like Dude is acting pretty chill for one of his citizens screwing someone up

And it’s sus

“Bomb,”

So no one‘s dead?

Also wait ‘Memorial shrine,’”

The heck was that never brought up?

I thought it was just the outside of the castle

The dude screwed with a memorial ?

Why?

[The intensity in this is whack..!]

Hm.

He was apparently part of Death Watch Wait, when was that ever confirmed?

Do you speak?

A worrisome prospect

That’s, your reaction

Pardon

What..?

[The tone is way off.]

Not as in writing a child- like an adult or writing an adult -like a child

(Or Animal)

This is the “What’s the emotion?,”

There’s

Er-

[The tone is so damn-]

Whelp

Aight-

Random Grab!

Not Okay!

Words. (Circ um stance-)

Favor

What

Dinner

- - -

What? The lip-sync’s - Off?

I can’t -tell-

The tone is so - distorted -

Look Around Mining facilities-

Like Seriously -

Do you want-

Also, he could’ve asked for a damn tour

[No need to do this subterfuge.]

Seriously, Obi-Wan is lazy avoidant smart, Till it comes to instigate some shit

Un- necess- arily-

aight... .

Oper-ational

[Damn It]

Tox

Problems

Literally doing it

Right now

Could, just asked for the tour . .

Solutions

No-

Opposed

Well if you actually had some - character-ization

Weren’t

Tox*

|my brain’s starting to go numb

Why?

[Not the brain, The Plot.]

Whelp

Right

Also yeah, dinner after that

Different guy?

Dude- Completely different hairstyle?

Duchess

Condolence.

Retrieve

Seriously,

Just Emot- ion

Very properly

That - looks pretty different-

Where?

Okay?

Sh adows-

Okay cave carvings

Right

Aban- On -ed

I mean

It does

There’s stuff on it yeah

But they could take people for tours down here [The things samples on how it worked)

[People do stupid things]

Wow

OK so they have some helmets because it used to be a manufacturing plant

Makes Sense-

Maybe you shouldn’t screw with someone’s display?

What

One dude

Great, you have one Mandalore enthusiast

Or a role Actor-

Whelp-

Okay-

Mission

With a light saber

Yeah you start a talking

then you do the action [if necessary.]

...

Seriously it’s one guy,

Two?

Okay

...

Dude, Force them.

Obi-wan -

Obi-won sucks..

...

Mis- information

This dude’s a dick isn’t he?

Like, The tone has been damn off ...

But this dude is supposed to be the villain I think

(And it’s not the carrier apparently)

Watch

Death Watch.

Stands

Why do you care?

A person just died

And we’re focused on this?

Like, Ma’am - Is your reputation seriously, The biggest thing worry- ing you ��right now? —- Without any sardonics - Or any - self-awareness - The tone has been on the floor since we started,

Right

Okay seriously

that’s villain lighting

Engineer

How?

Also, Some guys manage to smoke down the outside of the palace.

This is turning into the intergalactic incident?

It Isn’t-

That’s a very interpersonal matter.

And also ‘oh yeah this is gone beyond anything that I can expect but I won’t question you person who was supposed to keep track of it?

Hmm

Literally..

Nothing about these characters have been established

Are Satine and that dude close?

What

[it is a Mess,]

Along

You

But Is

Se- paratists

Power-ful

Don’t Drink

Also wait what was that logic?

No-

Okay,

What?

Jedi

This one’s weak

[if it was any other Jedi these guys would be arrested

by then]

Harm- less

I mean even with it he was fecking useless..

So you’re going to call Saltine Now?

Love..

Whelp

“Hey Satine I got my ass kicked again,” (Why do they send him on missions?)

Time?

Okay,

Ice

Fair,

General

Good,

Right

He clearly saw that right?

Al -right

Okay, Now,

Fatal-

Why?

Good,

Took .... Dick . . Yet ...

Aight

Nice

...

Try Ing .. .

Whelp

Why?

Look.

Why?

Whelp

Obi-won is a weak bitch (Term)

Hate

Un-

Un think the dialogue is reversed here,

Saltine was the one that was heavily against Involved (Direct) Approach

And the hair stroking thing

just seems like something

Obi-won Would Do...

Killed

This is really backwards

Obi-Wan is the one that is directly involved

Sal-tine She’s very sit on the sidelines from what we seen..

It would make more ....

Ser-iously?

(What is going on with the chara- cter- ization- )

Ag-

Right-

I honestly thought that was Rex for a minute

Blue ...is a theme

Whelp

(The reenactors are getting pretty serious,)

(Then again she did punch out)

Jedi

There’s two-

Which is two more than general Kenobi can handle,

But he’s got Satine, so that’s all right?

Whelp

Screw-

Now More

Stand and fight

So just Satine.

Stand ...

You got your ass kick- ed

Satine should’ve gotten that line,

Frick

Whelp. ..

Heck..

[Recap; That twist was real fucking stupid, Obi-won gets beat up the fifth time the Remix, and does Satine get injured?

I don’t know

....

WTF!

When it’s not excusing it’s characters from some accountability by using cheap tactics,

It’s tone is a mess;

The emotions nowhere to be found

The chara-cterization “Off the wall”

* Not in a good way . I can’t honestly say a single thing I Le- ar n ed

About The Chara-cters

Satine? Apart from the narrative treating her like she’s completely unreasonable

Nothing,

I can’t say a single thing for this character

There’s seem to be an attempt of banter between her and Ken-obi

But it’s completely inconsistent

Honestly, it feels like the writers had an idea (Or a line Of dia- log ue- And just threw it in hap hazardly-”

Result-ing in some (border ling) reality breaking scenes

Where a character says something happened

Didn’t

Which could work

If the tone wasn’t an absolute MESS!

Also the villains

Suffer From Clovis Syn-drome

(Or a near variant)

Because nothing is set up - The tone isn’t even

It feels like we’re supposed to hate this guy Before anything bad happens (The same as with the carrier- Who Did Nothing)

Screw ing Up The Story

Which is “Obi-Wan screws up Every -Thing And Lives- -”

my thoughts on this episode; (In a more organized form,)

Is that;

“Obi-wan screws up everything,” (As is my alternative tone for this episode)

*title

Is a Confused

un- alt ere -d

Mess

Suffering; From

Lack of set- up, proper chara-cter-ization Proper Tone- Emotion- al De- vel op e ment, None Chop- ped, flow- ing Narra- Tive-

And borders, on not being able to be considered a story

[Resemb- Ling Much Of The “Blue shadow virus,”. arc, Except With -out The Abominations But More nonsense,

[Bring back a persistent writing issue, To refuse to develop anything correctly,]

Addition Al; A Quick Possible Re- Write Recap; (To wash the bad taste out of my mouth)

-Obi-wan arrives at the Palace

(Possibly Soft, Mournful Play Ing To Indicate Sadness, Loneli ness, Turn- Ing To Harsh -er -Tri- um ph an t (Pro fes -s Ional Music [Heavy Brass]

The Carrier Greets Ner Vous ly (Poss Ibly Try -ing To Ex-pose Dis -spell- The Rumor -s (This is his cover)

Poss- Noting

Obi-wan meets Sal-tine Not- Ic-eable Wrist Ful Nes s-

Saltine Is Con- Cern Ed

Snip- Ish

Believing it to be the Jedi Council.

Dis-liking the military involvement in her country/ Planet

Till Obi-wan clarifies that this is a social call. . Ordered To Re- new Their Neu- trality pledge- By Chan -cellor Palp atine, The rumors Back Hill, Gossip,

They go outside for Saltine To Give A Public State Ment- That Goes Off —- (Possibly in the middle of Satine and Obi-Wan hav-ing An Argue- Ment Over Per form a tive Action (Neutral Vs Active Phy- Sical)

That Occurs)

Obi-Wan is held in suspicion for being a military personal ( And the damages only beginning when he arrived)

Not to mention;

Him being in, the hallway, The only one they can place Where are the bomb was set Things Go Badly

(Possible circumstantial Evidence, -Fram -ing

Either way Obi-Wan is now awaiting some kind of trial

Which he makes it worse,

By refusing, To wait,

And trying to find the actual suspect..

He does

The “Incident” Happens,

And now it looks worse than ever;

Sateen cradling the dying Man-d- a-lorian

Who Invokes The Jedi To Blame

Satine Is Up- Set (~Angry)

Obi- won Eventually proves- The Existence Of Death Watch. But that point- It’s Al-ready Too Late, Bridges Burned In his pursuit for justice, Along with his relation ships . . . Saltine Taking The Evi dence Coldly Tell -ing Him “To Leave,”

Victory At the cost of everything dear,

[Leader Not Reveal ed Yet]

[Citi- Zens Pri- Med For Darth Sidious]

[Castle’s Blue, Fading To The Neutral Re- flec- tive White)

[Carrier Possibly Hint- Ed Gone Often]

[Senator Possib -Ly Engaged/ Husband, If You Want That Drama

Moral; About Mov- Ing On

[Ending scene possibly kept the same)

*To Foreshadow possible Anakin

But with a lot more weight-

[End]

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When Janelle Monae inducts Janet Jackson into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on March 29, it will be a beautiful moment: a young, gifted, and black woman acknowledging the formative influence — on herself and millions of others — of a woman who seized Control of her own career 33 years ago. It will also be an anomaly.

Jackson is one of only two women being inducted into the hall this year, out of 37 inductees, including the members of the five all-male bands being inducted. The other woman is Stevie Nicks. During the 34 years since the hall was founded by Jann Wenner and Ahmet Ertegun, 888 people have been inducted; 69 have been women. That’s 7.7 percent. The problem is spreading.

A November Rolling Stone article announced that the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York, was collaborating with the Rock Hall on a new exhibit of “iconic instruments of rock ‘n’ roll” called Play It Loud. Scheduled to open on April 8, the list of acts whose instruments would be on display included only one woman. My social media feeds exploded with rage and quips, as we wondered whether St. Vincent made the cut because the curators assumed from her name that she was male. Since then, the Met has added several women (and men) to the exhibit list, including Patti Smith, Wanda Jackson, and Joan Jett. It isn’t clear whether the Met added these women as a result of the internet outrage or if they were part of the show all along. After all, all three institutions — the hall, the museum, and the magazine — have, as Jett might say, a bad reputation for excluding women from their reindeer games.

People and institutions have to stop defining rock and rock ‘n’ roll as music played by men, especially white men, with guitars.

The Rock Hall is the most obvious offender in what I’ll call the manhandling of musical history. Manhandling is akin to, and often — as with the Rock Hall — intersects with, whitewashing. Manhandling pushes women out of the frame just as whitewashing covers up black bodies. People of color account for 32 percent of Rock Hall inductees, a far better figure than for women, but still not representative of the enormous role African Americans and Latinx people have played in American popular music. Manhandling is standard practice on country radio; there were no women in the Top 20 of Billboard’s country airplay chart for two weeks in December. Manhandling is standard practice on classic rock radio, where women are relegated to token spots on playlists, and are never played back-to-back. It’s standard in histories of music; there are no women featured in Greil Marcus’s seminal book Mystery Train: Images of Rock ‘n’ Roll in America. And of course, it’s standard practice at IM Pei’s partial glass pyramid in Cleveland. One year of affirmative action at the Grammys cannot wipe away decades of manhandling.

The problem is pervasive, and it is ideological. It is a way of seeing and presenting the world that is based on projections of power and control, not on reality. People and institutions have to stop defining rock and rock ‘n’ roll as music played by men, especially white men, with guitars. We have to change this image, this historiography, this institutionalization, this lie. In short, you do not need a cock to rock.

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Exhibit A: Sister Rosetta Tharpe. In the 1930s, the blues and gospel singer began picking her guitar in a way that we now recognize as the foundation of rock ‘n’ roll playing — she laid the foundation upon which Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly built. There’s footage of her with a Gibson that’s been viewed 2.7 million times on YouTube. If you’re not one of those viewers, become one now. Tharpe was finally inducted into the Rock Hall in 2018.

Holly and Berry were both among the first 16 acts inducted in the Rock Hall, in 1986. All their fellow inductees were male. Built on such grotesquely imbalanced footing, the institution may never get itself right. After all, its main instigator was Ahmet Ertegun, an admittedly legendary records man who treated women abominably, according to Dorothy Carvello’s 2018 memoir Anything for a Hit. Carvello is a music executive who began her career working for Ertegun at Atlantic. Ertegun subjected her to crude sexual harassment and once fractured her arm in anger. The Rock Hall named its main exhibition hall after Ertegun. How can this ever be a place where women feel welcome, let alone safe? Just as universities have removed from buildings and fellowships the names of film executives who gave them money, such as USC renaming their Bryan Singer Division of Critical Studies, the Rock Hall should remove Ertegun’s name from the building and from the annual industry executive award that bears his name. It’s an award that has never been given to a woman.

I would like to not care about what institutions such as the Met and Hall of Fame do.

I pick on the Rock Hall because I care. I love rock ‘n’ roll, to borrow a phrase. I attended the building’s inaugural event, and despite my ever-growing disenchantment, I always pay attention to who is nominated and who wins. I even get to vote — finally. Aware of the way it was increasingly being seen as a sort of hospice for aging white men, the hall has been trying to diversify its voting body, or risk obsolescence. After two decades as a professional rock writer, I was finally asked to vote a few years ago, and to recruit friends. The problem is, every inductee also gets a vote. So every year, more and more men get the franchise and vote in their friends and heroes, who tend to be men. The hall rigged its own system with its testosterocking inaugural class, and despite efforts to add gender and color balance, the numbers are getting worse.

It’s tempting to just say so what. I would like to not care about what institutions such as the Met and Hall of Fame do. They are essentially shrines to white men created by white men, so of course, they honor white men. But they pretend to serve the public — and in the Met’s case, it is in part a publicly funded institution. The Hall of Fame and its associated museum have enormous cultural power, writing in stone the historical importance of individuals in a way that no other institution or publication or organization does. They also create real economic benefits for culture workers. Being inducted into the Rock Hall doesn’t just look good on your resume, it helps sell records and tickets. Most importantly, these institutions provide inspiration — role models — for future generations. And if the only women you’re going to see receiving awards on that stage at the Barclays Center are Janet Jackson and Stevie Nicks, would you, if you were a little girl, go pick up a guitar?

Time’s up for the Rock Hall and the music industry. The Grammys got called on its #GrammysSoMale gender gap in 2018. After women complained that they were largely shut out of the telecast winners, Recording Academy president Neil Portnow responded that female artists needed to “step up” and they would be welcome. Needless to say, that patronizing, clueless comment went over like a lead zeppelin; there were calls for Portnow’s head, including an online petition for him to resign. So this February, the telecast featured an impressive roster of contemporary and historic talent, from Lady Gaga and Brandi Carlile to Dolly Parton and Diana Ross. But then Portnow stepped on stage and publicly patted himself on the back for the show’s sudden gender balance, like he was our white savior, our knight in shining armor coming to our emotional rescue with this feel-good moment.

Moments are not enough. Thankfully, Portnow is stepping down from his position in July. And yes, I’m sure a woman would be happy to take his place. This is part of the change that must happen in the businesses and nonprofits that support music. Women must be hired and promoted across all facets of the industry: as the editor in chief of Rolling Stone, the chairman of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, the CEO of Universal Music Group. After all, a recent study from the University of Southern California shows that women are outnumbered in most aspects of the business, accounting for only 2 percent of producers and 12.3 percent of songwriters, for instance.

Some of this imbalance is a result of outright exclusion or unwelcoming environments. (Just ask any woman who has worked at a music magazine or a recording studio what it’s like to be, as former Rolling Stone writer Robin Green titled her 2018 memoir, “the only girl.”) Some is a result of sexual harassment or assault, which leaves women so traumatized that their careers stall or even stop. Ever wonder why a favorite artist, songwriter, or DJ ghosted for years? Increasing revelations about the predatory behavior of musicians, publicists, producers, managers, and executives show that, as a whole, the music industry can be a frightening place to be female, whether you’re a young intern working for R. Kelly or a talented country singer married to Ryan Adams. Mandy Moore married Adams in 2009, and hasn’t released an album since. They divorced in 2016. A New York Times investigation of Adams’s alleged predatory behavior toward younger women described him as “psychologically abusive” to Moore.

Guys like Ertegun, who died in 2006, reportedly manhandled in the workplace, in addition to creating the Cleveland shrine to gender inequity. Carvello’s book documents in scandalous detail how he and other executives created a boys’ club environment where women had to either pretend to be one of the boys, betraying their sisters, or trade sex for promotion. In Ertegun’s world, women were not allowed to step up; they were stepped on. Having systematically excluded and oppressed women from the business of making music, Ertegun and his cronies at the Rock Hall then carved that exclusion into stone by essentially writing them out of history, year after year after year. When women do get let into the Rock Hall boys’ club, it is on the arms of men: Carole King is there for her songwriting with Gerry Goffin, not as the woman who recorded numerous hit songs herself, including those on the record-smashing album Tapestry. Tina Turner was inducted alongside her abusive ex-spouse Ike. Indeed, the hall seems to define rock in a way that is disturbingly masculinist, as opposed to expansive and risk-taking — the qualities I like to think of as defining popular music. How about a Hall of Fame that includes Selena, TLC, Patsy Cline, and Grace Jones?

There’s nothing so scary to certain men as a bunch of women banding together. That’s another tool of the patriarchy: divide and conquer.

I’m delighted that two deserving female artists, Janet Jackson and Stevie Nicks, will be inducted this year. It’s particularly noteworthy that Nicks is getting the nod as a solo artist, after she was already inducted as part of Fleetwood Mac; she’s the first woman to be inducted twice, joining 22 men in the so-called Clyde McPhatter Club. Next year, the Hall must do the same for Tina and Carole. After being nominated so many times, Chaka Khan must finally be inducted as well.

That still won’t be enough to counteract the sheer numerical voting power of all the male musicians who get in as members of bands, especially if the men of Rufus, Khan’s collaborators with whom she has thrice been nominated, are inducted alongside Khan. There are three things the Hall of Fame can do to rectify that imbalance: 1. Flood the nominating committee and voting membership with more women. Six out of 29 members of last year’s nominating committee were women; the notoriously tight-lipped hall has not revealed this year’s committee members. 2. Reduce the voting power of members inducted as players in bands (so, say, the five dudes in Def Leppard each get one fifth of a vote). 3. Nominate a shit ton of all-female bands next year.

Female musicians and groups are particularly absent from the Rock Hall, as from the industry. There’s nothing so scary to certain men as a bunch of women banding together. That’s another tool of the patriarchy: divide and conquer. It’s why Lady Gaga is basically the only woman in A Star Is Born, a film ostensibly celebrating female artistry. She has no mother, no sister; even her girlfriends are male, and they’re drag queens. By focusing on individual artists, not a collective, the entertainment-industrial complex elevates the star, not the gender. The lioness is separated from her pack.

That’s why some women involved in music have formed an activist group, named Turn It Up! As our mission statement says, we “advocate for equal airplay, media coverage and industry employment of groups who are historically and structurally excluded from the business and the institutions of music-making.” And yes, we’re coming for you, sons of Ertegun.

Here’s who I’d like to see inducted in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame next year:

Tina Turner

Chaka Khan

Carole King

Diana Ross

Dolly Parton

The Go-Go’s

The Runaways

Bikini Kill

The Crystals

Labelle

Salt N Pepa

That would add more than 30 women to the voting rolls. It’s not enough to correct the historical record, but it’s a step up.

***

Evelyn McDonnell is associate professor of journalism at Loyola Marymount University. She has been writing about popular culture and society for more than 20 years. She is the author of four books: Queens of Noise: The Real Story of the Runaways, Mamarama: A Memoir of Sex, Kids and Rock ‘n’ Roll, Army of She: Icelandic, Iconoclastic, Irrepressible Bjork, and Rent by Jonathan Larson. She coedited the anthologies Women Who Rock: Bessie to Beyonce. Girl Groups to Riot Grrrl, Rock She Wrote: Women Write About Rock, Pop and Rap, and Stars Don’t Stand Still in the Sky: Music and Myth and edit the Music Matters series from University of Texas Press. She lives in Los Angeles.

Flor Amezquita, Marika Price and Adele Bertei assisted with research for this article. Figures are based off the official Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s induction page, which was then cross-referenced with multiple lists and sources.

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The sensations of amusement park rides are a thrill for many across the country. The dizzy feeling from spinning in circles or speeding through turns delights both children and adults alike. However, when a dizzy sensation suddenly hits when sitting at work, walking to get the mail, or when going through the regular routines of the day, this unforeseen sensation can be quite a scary ride. While a spell of dizziness can be triggered by a variety of factors, one common cause is vertigo.

Over 40% of those over the age of 40 experience vertigo at least once during their lifetime; this equates to over 69 millions Americans. An episode of vertigo can happen just once or can become a chronic, frequent problem. While the severity of symptoms varies from person to person, most sufferers would agree an onset of vertigo is no walk in the park. Many experience vertigo without even realizing what it is. Read on to learn more about the symptoms of vertigo and what you can do to recover from a vertigo attack.

A Definition Of Vertigo

Vertigo is defined as a medical condition where sensations of spinning, swaying, rotating, or rocking are experienced by someone who is perfectly still. It usually results from issues of the inner ear. The vestibular system of the inner ear controls our sense of special orientation. Additionally, this delicate part of the ear provides our sense of balance. But when the inner ear is experiencing abnormality, it throws our equilibrium off balance – literally.

The Symptoms

Massive headaches, nausea, vomiting, and sensations of spinning can all be present when this vertigo hits. And unfortunately, it seldom seeks out an appointment time; vertigo arrives unannounced and strikes suddenly, leaving you feeling sick and dizzy.

The length of a vertigo attack varies from person to person. The cause of vertigo may influence how long an episode can last. For some sufferers it may be just a few seconds, for others, it can be several hours of incessant spinning. For those that have a lengthy episode, laying down and remaining completely still may be the only way to stop or reduce the ongoing, swaying sensation. Most vertigo sufferers agree that the dizzying symptoms intensify when moving or turning the head.

The Causes Of Vertigo

During the course of a lifetime, there are a variety of things that can affect the inner ear. Head injuries, inflammation due to a sickness, or bacterial infections can affect our inner ears. An inner ear impaction can throw off our sense of balance. Below are some problems the inner ear could have during a lifetime – all which can result in someone experiencing vertigo.

Meniere’s Disease

This is a disorder of the inner ear and usually affects just one ear. The exact causes of Meniere’s Disease are unknown. However, conditions like allergies or viruses could increase fluids in the ear and cause the disease. If an individual has Meniere’s disease he or she is likely to experience vertigo every now and then. An episode can last from 20 minutes up to a few hours. Those with this condition may also experience a ringing in the ears or a loss of hearing.

Meniere’s Disease is diagnosed between the ages of 20 and 60. More females have this condition than males. And this disease has shown to be genetic. There are no cures for the condition at this point, but those who suffer from extreme vertigo episodes can take medication to help ease the symptoms.

Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BBPV)

This condition is probably the most common for those who suffer from vertigo and greatly affects the aging population. Again, the exact cause is unknown but is linked to a calcium otolith, or calcium deposit structure, moving loosely in the inner ear. It can occur at any age but is more commonly seen in those who are older than 60. Females also more likely to be diagnosed with BBPV than males.

Those with BBPV usually experience vertigo when moving their head suddenly or too fast. Dizzying episodes generally last a minute or less. In various studies, stress or lack of sleep has shown to be triggers for vertigo episodes.

Vestibular Neuritis

Vertigo occurs when the vestibule nerve inside the inner ear becomes inflamed. The inflammation is often a result a viral or bacterial infection.

Vestibular Neuritis usually lasts three to six weeks, and vertigo is the main indicator of this condition. Those with this diagnosis are usually between the age of 30 and 60 and does not affect one gender more than the other. Since this condition is temporary, vertigo usually occurs without causing vestibule inflammation. Some sufferers find participating in physical therapy helpful in regaining an accurate sense of balance.

Six Ways To Handle A Vertigo Attack

It would be nice if vertigo attacks occurred while lying down in bed in the comforts of home, but that is seldom the case. But there are a few measures that should be taken to help lessen the swaying sensation and nausea. If you have never experienced an episode of vertigo before, you should seek the attention of a doctor just to make sure it’s not something more serious. And while vertigo attacks are pretty scary in the event, below are some ways to lessen the symptoms.

1) Lie Down And Keep The Head Still.

If you are feeling especially nauseous, sometimes it’s easy to simply lie down right on the bathroom floor in case you feel the need to throw up. This is usually more preferable if you are at home. If you are forced to use a public bathroom the last thing you probably want to do is get down on a floor that has who knows what encrusted on it. In this instance, it might be better to find someplace to sit as still as possible and grab a container in case you are feeling sick.

2) Try A Half Somersault Exercise.

This is a newer technique that many vertigo health professionals have found to be effective. As part of this maneuver vertigo sufferers crouch with their head upside down as if they were going to do a somersault. But rather than actually go through with the gymnastic tumble, just maintain that position until the dizziness subsides. Then sit up until your head is level. Doing this a few times can help stabilize any particles in the inner ear that are causing the imbalance. This exercise is a beneficial one for those who have frequent episodes of vertigo.

3) Turn Off The Lights.

When the dizzying sensation of vertigo first arrives, it is a good idea to turn off all the lights. Glaring, overhead lights can definitely worsen the symptoms of a vertigo attack. But it’s also beneficial to refrain from using devices that emit light as well. Turn off cell phones, tablets, computer, and television screens while in the midst of a vertigo episode. The bright screens can increase the dizziness and make it more difficult to feel stable.

4) Stay Hydrated.

Just like with most medical conditions or sicknesses, it’s important to stay hydrated. Headaches associated with vertigo can worsen if you are dehydrated so it’s important to consume water – even if you are worried it might just come back up. Some sufferers have found drinking Ginger tea to be helpful. An easy way to prepare this is to simply boil some water with slivers of ginger root in it. Let it cool down a bit before pouring into a mug and sipping it. This fluid helps to hydrate as well as calm a queasy stomach.

5) Eat A Healthy, Digestible Snack.

If you are feeling nauseous, you may not feel like eating anything, but it’s important to have something in your stomach. An empty stomach or low sugar levels can throw your system off and lead to dizziness. Therefore, it is best to eat something light that provides nutrition. Eating a banana, low-acid fruit, or yogurt are some foods that generally help to reduce nausea and allow you to regain some balance.

6) Sleep It Off.

For some sufferers of vertigo, no matter what remedy they try, sleep is the only cure for the dizziness. Lack of sleep can be a trigger for vertigo, so catching some zzz’s can help. Most find that after a good night’s rest the world has stopped spinning. However, it’s still a good idea to get out of bed slowly and make a conscious effort throughout the day to not jerk your head around.

Seeing A Doctor

It is very common for first-timers experiencing a vertigo attack to take a trip to the emergency room. In fact, generally, three to four million patients visit the ER each year due to vertigo-like symptoms. Of those that decide to visit a doctor for their first episode, over 90% fully recover without having another episode.

However, if you decide to see a doctor when experiencing dizziness, it is best to find someone else who can drive you. When feeling off balance, driving a car or operating machinery is not safe. If an episode ever comes with any of the following symptoms, medical attention should be sought out immediately: blurred or double vision, fever, shortness of breath, and/or slurred speech.

For those who experience vertigo episodes frequently, or have severe symptoms, seek out a specialized physician. An ear, nose, and throat doctor is usually a good heath professional to meet with. They can run tests to see if you have any problems with your inner ear or if you have a balance disorder.

In the event of a vertigo episode, many doctors recommend taking the measures listed above as a first approach. Some health care professionals also may recommend taking a supplement of Vitamin D or undergoing acupuncture to ease frequent, undesirable symptoms. Physicians can also prescribe medications that can help combat nausea and dizziness that accompany a vertigo episode. When visiting a doctor it’s important to disclose all other medications since they could have negative side-effects – or lead to more dizziness– when taken with new prescriptions.

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The Manhandling of Rock ‘N’ Roll History

Evelyn McDonnell | Longreads | March 2019 | 11 minutes (2,166 words)

People and institutions have to stop defining rock and rock ‘n’ roll as music played by men, especially white men, with guitars.

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I would like to not care about what institutions such as the Met and Hall of Fame do.

There’s nothing so scary to certain men as a bunch of women banding together. That’s another tool of the patriarchy: divide and conquer.

Here’s who I’d like to see inducted in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame next year:

Tina Turner

Chaka Khan

Carole King

Diana Ross

Dolly Parton

The Go-Go’s

The Runaways

Bikini Kill

The Crystals

Labelle

Salt N Pepa

That would add more than 30 women to the voting rolls. It’s not enough to correct the historical record, but it’s a step up.

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