Women Crush Wednesday
There are way too many women crushing it at the Olympics to just pick one. So, we’re going to highlight a bunch.
Ilona Mayer - Team USA, Rugby
She’s incredibly vocal about body inclusivity and helped her team win the bronze medal yesterday. Her TikToks are also hilarious.
Flavia Saraiva - Team Brazil, Gymnasts
She hit her head on the uneven bars during warmups and still competed and helped her team get a bronze medal
Zhiying Zheng - Team Chile, Table Tennis
She was set to compete for China at age 16 but new rules messed up her game and she was never the same. She moved the Chile and decided to pick table tennis back up over Covid. She finally reached her Olympic dreams.
Kim Yeji - Team South Korea, Shooting
Not only does she look like someone who can take down John Wick. But she does it while having her daughter’s stuffy on her too.
Nada Hafez - Team Egypt, Fencing
She competed 7 months pregnant! Nuff said.
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Am I the only one who feels uncomfortable now that Tumblr's notifications call the people I follow my crush? Like, no? Sir, I'm asexual and this is Tumblr. This space and its users are the Internet equivalent of a racoon rummaging through the trash at night. If I wanted to stalk my nonexistent crush, I'd use Instagram.
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A apt distinction between Dafpork and Baffy (followed by a long ramble)
Since the looney tunes show era, it's not uncommon for looney tunes fans and even modern looney tunes to define Daffy and Porky's dynamic to be of the bully and doormat variant. Doesn't help when the latter half of the classic looney tunes shorts assert Daffy to be dull but domineering, and Porky to be competent but meek.
I don't reject these portrayals, but I do find it reductive to reduce Porky's aptitude for hubris, or Daffy's capacity for emotional intelligence... sometimes intelligence, period. Especially when people write them in comparison to how they write Baffy's dynamic.
So, here's a comic strip that encapsulates both Dafpork and Baffy's dynamics in a way that helps me summarise my points. The premise is the same for both: Daffy tells the latter a joke.
Here, Daffy tells a harmless (albeit flirtatious) joke. And Porky responds by crushing his trash can over Daffy's head and remarking on the quality of his humor.
As best friends, this is their normal -- usually Daffy initiates by tormenting Porky, and Porky will retaliate (sometimes dishing out more than Daffy may have earned). Other times Porky initiates and Daffy responds accordingly. This is how they banter.
Now let's move onto Baffy.
Here, Daffy tells a joke, and Bugs seems all too familiarised to his antics. Then Daffy pushes for a compromise, Bugs gives in. And then Daffy makes him regret the decision.
As best friends, this is their normal -- Daffy initiates by tormenting Bugs, Bugs anticipates this and usually shuts him down. Daffy pleads with Bugs to humor him, Bugs allows it, and then immediately regrets it (to varying degrees of legitimacy).
This is to say:
Porky can fall into the trap of being a doormat, but when it comes to Daffy, is a lot more emotionally volatile to the point of explosive anger. They're also very good at playing to their roles in relation to each other, making their interactions in shorts snappy, varied, unpredictable and hilarious.
Bugs is more attuned to psychological warfare and mind games, but has a track record of giving into Daffy's whims against his better judgment. He also has shown/admitted many times that he has a soft spot for Daffy, which makes their shorts carry this level of unspoken familiarity that is rarely found in classic looney tunes.
In the shorts, Dafpork operate like the duo that click the moment they clock each other, while Baffy operate like the duo with undisclosed history. Which I find super interesting when in terms of chronology, it should technically be the other way around since Dafpork shorts are greater in bulk and came way earlier before Baffy.
All this goes to show that truly, in my heart of hearts, Porky is NOT as soft-hearted as modern looney tunes media may have you believe. And Bugs has an understated weakness to pitiable pleas from sensitive birds.
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