#commencement speeches

[damnamour]

ICI TOUT COMMENCE ― E858

[evermoredeluxe]

May I say I HATE the concept of cringe?? everything is cringe lately and I’m tired. People try to be cool and not enjoying anything just to avoid being cringe, it’s exhausting, life is too short sorry

you MAY! in fact, you must!

[fandomtransmandom]

Congratulations to ✨Doctor✨ Hader!!!

"The best thing to do is love the process. Love the process of making a thing. ...I think if I was at your age and knew, 'Okay, I gotta love the process,' I think I would stop worrying so much and know that it takes a bit."

And...

"Don't worry about shit you can't control."❤️

Note: Bill's portion starts around 1hr5min.

[existennialmemes]

[extremely conservative voice] Moral Decay is when women have jobs and Moral Purity is when my wife is legally my property.

[venomousgirl17]

I have never been consistently livid over something all day but congrats Harrison Butker, you’ve managed to keep me in a state of rage today.

There is nothing wrong with women who choose to be stay at home moms or being proud of your wife for being one. What doesn’t make a lick of sense to me as to why he took it upon himself to claim all these women who just spent four years working to earn degrees have been deceived and their only true purpose in life is being wives and mothers.

It makes me think of the line from Little Women (2019)

“I just feel like women... they have minds, and they have souls, as well as just hearts. And they've got ambition, and they've got talent, as well as just beauty.

And I'm so sick of people saying that love is just all a woman is fit for. I'm so sick of it.”

I think this is why I’m so angry. I’m so tired that in 2024, there is still a large population that seems to view women through this myopic lens. Why can’t they do both? Why can’t they choose not to have kids or not get married? Why is this presented as some sort of moral failing if a woman isn’t content being a “homemaker” as Butker calls it.

Why they invited a kicker of all people to speak at a graduation is beyond me. What academic achievement has he done to be chosen for this honor?

I just hate this man was given a platform to continue these toxic ideas about what a woman is supposed to do with her life.

[bettyshoweduptotheparty]

Taylor wiping a tear at hearing a fellow NYU graduate speaker talk about becoming his own black gay role model. 🥹

[hatchetsfield]

hey guys i told someone on the phone that i hope they have a great weekend…are u proud of me 🥺👉👈

[agentnatesewell]

don’t suffer from permanent potential

[miamarie1960]

Ali preparing for her speech

[cryscendo]

harrison butker had a lot of audacity to talk about gay ppl the way he did only for kurt hummel to be a better kicker than him

[evermoredeluxe]

also betty hit me so hard while watching the movie, like i CRIED. it just reminded me that i too have hurt people and made mistakes and given shit-apology for said mistakes but still had those people forgive me. and just yeah.

[because--palestine]

Student gives powerful speech at University of Toledo

Palestinian American student gives powerful speech at 2024 University of Toledo commencement regarding the war on Gaza and state of affairs in the United States.

“As the graduates of today, we have the opportunity to be the heroes of tomorrow…”

[placetneplacet]

For whatever reason I’m coming back to Love Syndrome…

I loved Unforgotten Night and no it was not “good”, but I loved it and the thing is it did have a story, characters had motivations, we ended up in a place that made sense. No it was not the most visually stunning show, it had no bells and whistles. It was a Thai soap opera and never claimed to be anything else.

The trash watches that have failed to pull me in are ones that I’ve felt lacked any story or character motivations that made sense, they also tended towards delusions of grandeur to things that they were not.

I think Love Syndrome might actually be more of an Unforgotten Night, because there does appear to be a story…now it’s being told in a rather ham fisted way, but I think that goes with the soap opera territory.

Yes, Itt whining about cake was hard on the nerves by the end of episode, but the show did make it clear it was never actually about the cake.

Day states right out that he wants Itt to be a spoiled brat and to rely on Day to spoil Itt. Day has specifically cultivated this codependency. Their relationship began in a violent and toxic manner and it has evolved into this slightly less toxic dependency on one another.

The cake is a symbol of the problem, which is that Day is not holding up his end of the relationship.

Day has become a workaholic, which all of Itt’s family and friends read as Day becoming a good provider for Itt. Day is fulfilling, in their mind, his toxic patriarchal role of being the breadwinner for his “wife”, why can Itt complain?

Because that is not the toxic relationship that Itt has agreed too. Day wanted to fulfill Itt’s every emotional and physical need, Day cultivated the codependency on purpose. Itt doesn’t want a “good provider.”

Itt wants his codependent cake.

Which is why Day relents and gets cake and is driving home in the rain…Day wants Itt to have his codependent cake.

[eretzyisrael]

Outraged critics are demanding CUNY’s billions of dollars in taxpayer funding be stripped away after a law grad delivered a “hate-filled and dangerous’’ commencement address ripping NYPD “fascists” and Israel.

In her vitriolic May 12 graduation speech at the public City University of New York’s law school, newly minted grad Fatima Mousa Mohammed called for a “revolution” to take on the legal system’s “white supremacy’’ while blasting city cops and the US military and claiming Israel carries out “indiscriminate” murder.

“This hate-filled and dangerous speech has been brought to you by @CUNY and paid for by New York taxpayers,” tweeted Simcha Eichenstein, a Democratic state assemblyman representing Brooklyn. “Keep this in mind next time our elected leaders highlight their commitment to fighting antisemitism.”

Congressman Ritchie Torres (D-NY) said, “Imagine being so crazed by hatred for Israel as a Jewish State that you make it the subject of your commencement speech at a law school graduation.

“Anti-Israel derangement syndrome at work.”

[jula483]

Rhett and Link at NC State, May 5th

Sources: x / x / x

And links to watch their commencement speeches: 

Link (starts 25:38) - https://www.youtube.com/live/yaOB36C-sf0?feature=share&t=1539

Rhett (starts 55:45) - https://ncsu.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=47bf7bdb-9664-4b6b-ac2c-aff500fe27a0

[lenbryant]

Filmmaker Ken Burns urges Brandeis grads to choose democracy and not the cultish authoritarianism that’s threatening us in November.