Hey, remember when Friday was meme-day here at We Hunted the Mammoth? We’ve missed a couple, mostly because of horrible things happening in the world, but we’re back!
Today, some of the weirdest pro-Trump and anti-Hillary memes I’ve run across lately. Most of these are from Reddit — in particular, from r/The_Donald and r/HillaryForPrison. Enjoy, I guess.
Now this last meme — which I’ve censored a little — isn’t really all that weird. It’s just kind of revealing, at least about the sort of people who sit around making anti-Hillary memes.
Yikes.
@everyonewhoreplied I’m chill with the question, thanks, but what I was really asking is help not feeling disgusted after that article. (I’m either a feminine gay girl or a genderqueer gay girl, btw)
Anyway, seeing the answers, yeah I’m pretty sure I don’t. I tend to find EVERY single girl attractive except for a few–probably some internalized beauty standards on why I don’t which is what I really need to work on– but I think I’m good. Just a friend raised the question.
TLDR: Eh. I’m a horny teenager. It’s normal.
I don’t know if there’s potent enough brain bleach in the galaxy to not feel disgusted after reading roosh.
@Hambeast
I prefer it, but I’m easy either way 🙂
The knowledge drops here are indeed splendiferous. Everyone shows up with their different areas and levels of expertise, and we bounce things off each other, usually without internet shouting. Why would anyone not want that?
B-but you’re taking em outta context!
Yeah, I do that too. Ain’t nobody got time for that nonsense!
He’ll be back with a barely apologetic double down (how much doubling is this, all considered? it’s like grains of rice on a chessboard over here) and then show up in the next thread with the most nonchalant comment. Like we don’t notice… You ain’t slick!
@Axe
The thing that gets me is how important it seems to him that we care what he says even though he doesn’t give a shit what anyone else has to say.
Oh damn, @Dove, I’m sorry I wrongly assumed both your age and your gender X-|.
I noticed another funny Ghostbusters thing, wondering if Kate McKinnon’s character (who was my fave in the movie) was actually gay. Then I wondered if maybe she was named after this guy? I think perhaps she was 🙂
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Holzmann
Re: whether Holzmann is gay, here’s a relevant article:
http://www.themarysue.com/paul-feig-ghostbusters-holtzmann/
Alan – Okay, fine! I’ll admit that I just want to see people that look like Transformers riding awesome draft horses!* But one of the problems on the reality show was also the limited visibility of the helms with the visors down. Perhaps thick shatterproof plastic instead?
Also, the armor got very hot on warm days; at least one contestant was carried off after collapsing from dehydration. The paramedics on that show were very busy…
*And also that I want a draft horse of my very own but can’t fit one in my tiny yard that isn’t zoned for livestock anyway. 🙁
@kupo
Yes, I read that one. There’s a similar piece on Jezebel.
@ hambeast
I seem to recall (from books, not actually being there!) that there was quite some kudos attached to leaving your visor up and not looking away; also it gave an advantage of course. I think there even might have been a special phrase for it.
I love big horses like shires and cobs, especially when they have feathered feet; they just look so magnificent.
De-hydrating and hyperthermia is a common problem even with armour today; hence the ubiquity of Camelbak type devices. I often wear CBA armour for training (it’s a cheap alternative to weighted vests) and you don’t half get a sweat on !
This is OT and I dunno if people around here have discussed it yet, but the realm of comics books and their adaptations has had another fun time with the recent premiere of The Killing Joke at Comic Con.
Thar be spoilers ahead!
So, Bruce Timm and Brian Azzarello were apparently the writers for the animated adaptation of Alan Moore’s infamous comic that rendered Barbara Gordon a paraplegic for the sake of providing a plot for Batman and Commissioner Gordon to work through. They, fairly, decided that a straight adaptation of the original comic would be too short for a full-length animated feature, and so they decided to write up some prologue that led into the event proper; this is where things get… gross.
In this new prologue, apparently, Barbara Gordon takes up the mantle of Batgirl not to help clean up the streets of Gotham, but because she wants to get Batman’s attention. This builds up over the course of a few different events until finally Batman tells her to back off, and then they apparently have a bit of a scuffle which ends up with her “subduing” him and then they have a bit of a roll in the hay. But wait, there’s more! After this hilariously out-of-character moment for the both of them, Batman elects to start avoiding Barbara as she sits around pining for him, apparently to the point of there even being a scene where she’s waiting for him to call her. And then the original story starts and everything happens as it did, except now with the added bonus of Batgirl suddenly being a romantic interest for Batman.
After the premiere, there was a Q&A panel that Timm and Azzarello were on and eventually this… whole thing… ended up being called out, and their responses were… not the best.
So, yay for that.
@ hambeast
I haven’t been able to find that phrase yet; but turned up this which is quite interesting.
https://engelskhistoria.wordpress.com/2015/03/10/the-dangers-of-jousting/
@ dslucia
That sounds kind of like they sort of recycled the Silver Age Batwoman character.
@kupo
Some people don’t think they should hafta care. Listening and learning takes effort, and anyone pressuring others into expending effort is bad. Kinda like how it’s a free speech violation to present people with the idea that their speech may be wrong
Gert shouldn’t hafta worry about splash damage or other people’s feelings. Gert shouldn’t hafta deal with the consequences of the words beyond what is intended. Gert shouldn’t hafta.
Of course we, you, don’t hafta put up with it either 🙂
@dslucia
What!? You mean, the guy who made the Amazons into serial rapists in the new 52 has no idea how to write women characters!? I’m shocked, shocked, to find that there’s gambling going on in here!
Then again, DC as a whole is a shitshow subsidiary of a media conglomerate, whose only interest in the comics is Alan Moore and Frank Miller, so…
Alan – OMG that article! Ouch. I have a friend whose sister suffered two very bad head injuries (one on a bicycle during a road race and the other on a motorcycle some 15 yrs later, helmets were worn both times) and she is not the same person at all; she became very belligerent in general after the first accident and actively hostile to her family after the second; she got my email once and yowza! I had to ditch that email and vow to myself never to tell her family what she said.
The actual quote for that lion one is
“The army of sheep led by a lion is more formidable than an army of lions led by a sheep.” or some such variant.
It’s one of those quotes that everyone loves to spout, but no one seems to know where it came from. It’s most commonly attributed to Alexander The Great, but there’s no documentation that he said it and it’s not really something he would have said. Macedonians wouldn’t have taken to kindly to him calling them sheep.
Variations have also been attributed to everyone from Machiaveli and Polybius to Francis Bacon.
Alexander also gets credit for the “Lions don’t concern themselves with the thoughts of sheep” quote, so maybe folks just like to use Alexander as their excuse for insulting their political opponents.
Long story short, it’s definitely not an “American” proverb. It’s probably been around since man started forming armies.
@pitshade:
The thing that kind of really gets me is that apparently back in the ’70s the editors at DC at the time specifically responded to criticism of Batgirl by pointing out how they liked her addition because Batwoman was just there as a romance interest for Batman. Like, this is actually moving a story that was already backwards when it came out in the ’80s even further back than when the original character was introduced in the ’60s.
@Axe “Danger” Calibur:
It’s really kind of scattershot. Like, DC in general and their fanbase as well seem far more willing to implement and accept progressive ideas (or at least have far less backlash, as opposed to the gnashing and kicking and wailing that has come out against Miles Morales as Spider-Man, Jane Foster as Thor, and the new teen girl in an Iron Man suit), but then so many of the writers and editors are just really slimy people.
@ hambeast
You may be familiar with Phineus Gage. He was the unfortunate chap who ended up with a metal spike through his head. He’s famous in neuro-science as being the exemplar for how different areas of the brain are responsible for personality.
Apparently the rationale for this was that, a once cheerful soul, after the accident he became irascible and cranky. Can’t help but think that’s not an unreasonable response to having a spike through your head anyway; I can get a bit tetchy just stubbing my toe.
@dslucia: Ew.
That’s almost as gross as the OBVIOUS ROMANTIC SUBPLOT that looks baked-in to the new Wonder Woman live-action movie.
@Paradoxial Intention et al. The worst part about the whole mess with that movie is that Alan Moore himself regrets that he used Barbara Gordon’s kidnapping and assault as a tool for Batman’s story.
He’s repeatedly said that he’s baffled by the lasting legacy of the book and said that he wishes DC’s editor would have reined him in when he suggested crippling.
Instead of reining him in, the editor (whose name escapes me at the moment) heard Moore’s idea and said “Yeah, okay, cripple the bitch.”
Bruce Timm also had Batman and Batgirl hook up in the comics that accompanied the animated series, so having Bruce Wayne hook up with his adopted son’s ex-girlfriend is apparently an itch Timm’s wanted to scratch for a long time
PI:
I haven’t been following information on the Wonder Woman movie, is it Steve Trevor? He’s usually part of her origin story and initial romance interest. Though, yeah, great that DC finally stops making excuses for why they can’t make a female-led film and then they hamstring in the romance plot right away because everyone knows that women can’t star in anything without having a big hunky man to be romantically linked to.
@Stempke:
Len Wein, I believe is who the quote is attributed to. And yeah, BatgirlxBatman does seem like Timm’s fanfic thing. In the article I linked, he said that you can totes see the attraction between the two everywhere, but from everything I’ve seen and read, the only universe that has any sort of romantic connection is one that Timm has co-written.
Yup. He’s played by another white male actor named Chris, but it’s the same one that plays Kirk in the Star Trek reboots.
I understand he’s necessary for Diana to want to get off the island, but c’mon…I’m still tempted to see it because the action sequences look amazing though. And there was one scene in the trailer that actually made me smirk.
Diana meets Trevor’s secretary, and Diana asks what a secretary is. So, she says “Well, I go wherever Mr. Trevor asks when he asks, and I do whatever he asks when he asks.”
“That sounds like slavery to me.”
And cue Mr. Trevor trying to usher Diana away from the poor woman, who immediately goes “Oh, I like her.”
If Diana turning him down for marriage doesn’t happen though, I’m going to be upset.
And if this happens, I’m going to flip a fucking table.
BLUH.
I wish it could have been another woman. That would have been interesting. Not “Oooh, a man has come to our island of fetishized women who live without men~! He’s so hunky and exotic~! Let’s learn more about him, preferably with nakedness and sexual rituals~!!!”
http://66.media.tumblr.com/0aa9319dee183f0e1f8deeaa62ec3062/tumblr_inline_n7l8x5nsqC1sssccq.jpg
BLUUUUUUUHHHHHHH.
Re Killing Joke:
they have actually managed to make one of the most famous examples of “Women in Refrigerators” (arguably more famous then the actual women in the actual Refrigerator) and somehow made it worst.
Come on Tim you were the one who made move these characters I want to like you money. Stop making it so hard.
@dslucia
To be fair (tho not that fair) making Alyssa Yeoh trans isn’t quite the same as making Spiderman AfroLatino. I mean, the core 4 Avengers from the movies are now:
1)a black man
2)a black girl (I use ‘girl’, cos she’s 15)
3)a white woman
4)an Asian boy
Also, Loki’s genderfluid, Iceman’s gay, Ms Marvel’s a Muslim, mixed babies everywhere, etc. Basically, if you’re the sort to complain about things that don’t negatively affect you but have a positive influence on people, especially children, of marginalized backgrounds *breathe*, there’s more high profile material over at Marvel. FFS, has Damian Wayne, Ibn al Xuffash, ever even spoken Arabic? Marvel’s pushing harder, so equal and opposite reactions and all that