Tumblr (3.0; @clapifyoulikeme)http://clapifyoulike.me/<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz7lwvBVra1qzbt2ko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Still on a Tumblr break (as evidenced by the fact that I’m in the computer lab at 10:30 on a Friday), but I did find time to deal with the <a href="http://clapifyoulike.me/post/16120606833/gpoyt-all-the-hair-edition">hair</a> <a href="http://clapifyoulike.me/post/17063097791/me-the-three-of-us-went-to-dinner-mom-three">problem</a>.</p> <p>(Meanwhile, I feel sad for the freshmen in here, as <em>they</em> should still be out having unprotected sex or something, not sending rapturous emails about the glory of Michael Walzer to their advisor.)</p> <p>(Side note that some of you will enjoy: I couldn’t remember Peter Singer’s name, so I <strike>Googled</strike> <strike>did a Google search for</strike> Googled “australian infanticide theorist”. His Wikipedia page was the first hit.)</p>http://clapifyoulike.me/post/17406169435http://clapifyoulike.me/post/17406169435Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:34:00 -0500GPOYMichael WalzerPeter SingerBrilliantTroll<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz7bnx2SiA1qzbt2ko1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Oh, this is too good.</p>http://clapifyoulike.me/post/17394248101http://clapifyoulike.me/post/17394248101Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:52:45 -0500<p>It did not stick around.</p>http://clapifyoulike.me/post/17131439676http://clapifyoulike.me/post/17131439676Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:17:00 -0500Sports Night<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyy6vx4eC41qzbt2ko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>My little brother posted this on my Facebook wall.</p>http://clapifyoulike.me/post/17128647581http://clapifyoulike.me/post/17128647581Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:31:09 -0500They left out 'white'<p><strong><a href="http://chasingalyx.tumblr.com/"><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/avatar_2058250c20fd_16.png"/></a></strong> <strong><a href="http://chasingalyx.tumblr.com/">chasingalyx</a></strong> replied to your <strong><a href="http://clapifyoulike.me/post/17081907659/theyre-all-about-duty">photo</a></strong><span>:</span> <em><strong><a href="http://clapifyoulike.me/post/17081907659/theyre-all-about-duty">They’re all about duty.</a></strong></em></p> <blockquote>Okay, so I just recently came back to my tumblr dash and I’ve been reading your posts. I can’t tell you how happy it makes me that there is someone else out there who not only loves TWW but also S60 & Sports Night. In NZ nobody’s heard of the last 2!</blockquote> <p>Heathens, clearly.</p>http://clapifyoulike.me/post/17116835824http://clapifyoulike.me/post/17116835824Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:08:23 -0500chasingalyx<p>I broke down and made my very own <em>West Wing</em> recap Tumblr.</p> <p><a href="http://claudiashouseofuselessknowledge.tumblr.com/">Claudia’s House of Useless Knowledge</a></p>http://clapifyoulike.me/post/17114572535http://clapifyoulike.me/post/17114572535Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:32:37 -0500West WingCHOUK<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyxq7xaaBU1qzbt2ko1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://dooeytwo.tumblr.com">Gwyn</a> gets me.</p>http://clapifyoulike.me/post/17106777115http://clapifyoulike.me/post/17106777115Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:31:09 -0500dooeytwoCJ-centered recap Tumblr<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyxcqayiVv1qgkezso1_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyxcqayiVv1qgkezso2_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyxcqayiVv1qgkezso3_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyxcqayiVv1qgkezso4_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><p>Wait. Wait. WAIT. Subtitles?!</p>http://clapifyoulike.me/post/17098858805http://clapifyoulike.me/post/17098858805Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:20:34 -0500josh lymansam seabornthe west wingwest wing gifsbradley whitfordrob lowetransition<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lywthw20Pb1qzbt2ko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>They’re all about duty.</p>http://clapifyoulike.me/post/17081907659http://clapifyoulike.me/post/17081907659Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:44:00 -0500Studio 60<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lywsrsHPwV1qzbt2ko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Drunkenly cuddling with the giraffe my friend made me for Chanukah. Her name btw is Little Itty-bitty Miss Branch, aka LIMB, nicknamed Branchy. I like her a lot.</p>http://clapifyoulike.me/post/17081444418http://clapifyoulike.me/post/17081444418Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:28:00 -0500Branchy<p><strong><a href="http://jaydensmommie.tumblr.com/"><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/avatar_41727434f0bd_16.png"/></a></strong> <strong><a href="http://jaydensmommie.tumblr.com/">jaydensmommie</a></strong> replied to your <strong><a href="http://clapifyoulike.me/post/17079212373/okay-internet">post</a></strong><span>:</span> <em><strong><a href="http://clapifyoulike.me/post/17079212373/okay-internet">Okay, internet</a></strong></em></p> <blockquote>Did you just start it? Because if I remember correctly it’s gone by like the fourth episode. It was really really terrible with the laugh track.</blockquote> <p>I’ve seen it before (like twice?) but I’m watching it right now. And I’m drinking. So that’s a thing. And it’s annoying stupid laugh track.</p>http://clapifyoulike.me/post/17080901840http://clapifyoulike.me/post/17080901840Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:11:00 -0500jaydensmommie<p>Sorkin is foreshadowing Ainsley Hayes <em>two years in advance and on a different show</em>.</p>http://clapifyoulike.me/post/17079467159http://clapifyoulike.me/post/17079467159Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:33:00 -0500Sports NightWest Wing<p>I know someone out there has somehow stripped the laugh track out of <em>Sports Night</em> and put it on some illegal site. Find it for me. Please. Before I jump off a cliff.</p>http://clapifyoulike.me/post/17079212373http://clapifyoulike.me/post/17079212373Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:26:00 -0500Sports Night<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lywphqUtwN1qzbt2ko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>No subtitles? How am I supposed to know who those guys are?</p>http://clapifyoulike.me/post/17078835215http://clapifyoulike.me/post/17078835215Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:17:00 -0500Sports Night<p>I’m gonna corrupt the shit out of them.</p>http://clapifyoulike.me/post/17075724045http://clapifyoulike.me/post/17075724045Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:12:00 -0500turn them all into raging little socialist feminists<p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://snowdarkred.tumblr.com/post/17071576147/tygermama-asked-okay-forgive-my-ignorance-but-i">snowdarkred</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://clapifyoulike.me/post/17071182297/tygermama-asked-okay-forgive-my-ignorance-but-i">clapifyoulikeme</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://snowdarkred.tumblr.com/post/17070483247/tygermama-asked-okay-forgive-my-ignorance-but-i">snowdarkred</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://clapifyoulike.me/post/17070219757/tygermama-asked-okay-forgive-my-ignorance-but-i">clapifyoulikeme</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://snowdarkred.tumblr.com/post/17069715563/okay-forgive-my-ignorance-but-i-dont-remember">snowdarkred</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>because centaurs have this weird quirk of raping people in all of their legends, and then a bunch of angry centaur dudes cart of a woman. who then has clear signs of ptsd and a violent reaction to the sound of hoofs.</p> <p><a href="http://www.dollymix.tv/2007/10/the_forgotten_rape_in_harry_po.html">x</a></p> </blockquote> <p>I disagree. I think that Umbridge was traumatized by a herd of centaurs because a) they are, except for Firenze, not particularly nice to humans; and b) because Umbridge is species-ist. Imagine a KKK member being beaten up by a group of blacks. The KKKer would be traumatized not only by being beaten up but by the beating being perpetrated by a group he views as distinctly less than.</p> <p>Also, I imagine getting trampled by horses is pretty damn traumatizing to begin with.</p> </blockquote> <p><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvrzdy4Jqv1r37w8so1_500.gif"/></p> <p>#um no #centaurs rape people #this is a part of their mythology #it’s what they do #period #i don’t think someone who did as much freakin’ research as jkr somehow overlooked that #centaurs rape people - specifically women #and EVEN IF THEY WEREN’T CENTAURS #IT WOULD STILL BE IMPLIED RAPE #a bunch of angry dudes drag a screaming woman into the woods? </p> </blockquote> <p>You’re completely overlooking the fact that she’s a bigot and would be upset by this even if they were women. Also, do we know that they’re all male? I don’t have the book here. Also, the original post that inspired all this uses <em>one source</em>, and specifically says at the end:</p> <blockquote> <p>Please note that this is a <strong>feminist reading of a text</strong>. It does not mean that I believe Rowling intended for these things to happen. When a work is published, it becomes something that is up for interpretation by many different disciplines. A feminist reading of a text finds hidden meanings and reads against the grain - <strong>it does not say anything about the author’s intentions</strong>.</p> </blockquote> <p>I just don’t see a violent gang rape being included in <em>Harry Potter</em>. I don’t disagree that you <em>can</em> make that argument, but you <em>can</em> make all kinds of arguments. You can read it through all kinds of viewpoints from various disciplines. That’s what academics do. It may have little or nothing to do with the actual story. As someone says in the comments:</p> <blockquote> <p>I think it’s an interesting reading and agree with Liz in that her take on it is based on an idea, which she further researched. It’s not a absolute truth, it’s a feminist reading. You could also do a Marxist reading of Harry Potter and say that wizardry is presented as the socialist alternative to the capitalist human world (I don’t actually think that but I do think a feasible argument could be made for that). So does that make Rowling a Communist? I doubt it.</p> </blockquote> <p>Also, please don’t respond with a snotty gif and then entirely in tags. It makes responding really frustrating, as I have to retype them into the body of the post lest people think they’re mine.</p> <p><span>[added from other reblog] Also, if you’re going to post this with “</span><span>#jkrowling is objectively terrible so….” as the tag, I’m pretty much going to not take you seriously. J.K. Rowling is </span><em>not</em><span>“objectively terrible”. In fact, very few if any people are “objectively terrible”, because “terrible” isn’t an objective thing.</span></p> </blockquote> <p><span><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwui95bvCY1r7jod8o1_500.gif"/></span></p> <p><span>Source: snowdarkred  #tw rape #haha no #there are a lot of terrible things in harry potter #like drugging someone and raping them (tom riddle’s mom) #like genocide (haha and HOW) #like child abuse (haha no food for harry! but that’s not abuse because jkr says so!) #like murder (and HOW) #like torture (and HOW) #like ‘bad people’ being ~fat~ (the dursleys umbridge fudge etc) #like slutshaming (hello ginny and her two boyfriends) #also: copypaste if you want to repsond to tags</span></p> </blockquote> <p><span>Managing to both be rude <em>and</em> not respond to my arguments? I’m impressed. </span></p> <p><span>Oh, I see. You think you responded to <em>one sentence</em> of what I said (“</span>I just don’t see a violent gang rape being included in <em>Harry Potter</em>.”) Which you didn’t even do. Giving me examples of other bad things being included doesn’t have anything to do with me feeling that a violent gang rape wouldn’t be in there. I’m happy to explain why I believe that just as soon as you address the others points I made. And, you know, act like a grownup and don’t respond with gifs and a bunch of tags rather than sentences.</p>http://clapifyoulike.me/post/17071949215http://clapifyoulike.me/post/17071949215Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:59:26 -0500<p>“#jkrowling is objectively terrible so….” kind of reveals your biases here. It’s hard to take a discussion what started as a thoughtful feminist reading of a text seriously when that’s your argument. </p>http://clapifyoulike.me/post/17071442830http://clapifyoulike.me/post/17071442830Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:49:53 -0500snowdarkred<blockquote> <p>Professor Umbridge was lying in a bed opposite them, gazing up at the ceiling …. Since she had returned to the castle she had not, as far as any of them knew, uttered a single word. Nobody really knew what was wrong with her, either. Her usually neat mousy hair was very untidy and there were still bits of twigs and leaves in it, but otherwise she seemed to be quite unscathed.</p> <p>‘Madam Pomfrey says she’s just in shock,’ whispered Hermione.</p> <p>‘Sulking, more like,’ said Ginny.</p> <p>‘Yeah, she shows signs of life if you do this,’ said Ron, and with his tongue he made soft clip-clopping noises. Umbridge sat bolt upright, looking around wildly.</p> <p>‘Anything wrong, Professor?’ called Madam Pomfrey, poking her head around her office door.</p> <p>‘No … no …’ said Umbridge, sinking back into her pillows. ‘No, I must have been dreaming …’</p> <p><span>Hermione and Ginny muffled their laughter in the bedclothes.</span></p> </blockquote> <p><span><span>Also, if you’re going to post this with “</span></span>#jkrowling is objectively terrible so….” as the tag, I’m pretty much going to not take you seriously. J.K. Rowling is <em>not</em> “objectively terrible”. In fact, very few if any people are “objectively terrible”, because “terrible” isn’t an objective thing.</p>http://clapifyoulike.me/post/17071320434http://clapifyoulike.me/post/17071320434Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:47:33 -0500tw rape<p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://snowdarkred.tumblr.com/post/17070483247/tygermama-asked-okay-forgive-my-ignorance-but-i">snowdarkred</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://clapifyoulike.me/post/17070219757/tygermama-asked-okay-forgive-my-ignorance-but-i">clapifyoulikeme</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://snowdarkred.tumblr.com/post/17069715563/okay-forgive-my-ignorance-but-i-dont-remember">snowdarkred</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>because centaurs have this weird quirk of raping people in all of their legends, and then a bunch of angry centaur dudes cart of a woman. who then has clear signs of ptsd and a violent reaction to the sound of hoofs.</p> <p><a href="http://www.dollymix.tv/2007/10/the_forgotten_rape_in_harry_po.html">x</a></p> </blockquote> <p>I disagree. I think that Umbridge was traumatized by a herd of centaurs because a) they are, except for Firenze, not particularly nice to humans; and b) because Umbridge is species-ist. Imagine a KKK member being beaten up by a group of blacks. The KKKer would be traumatized not only by being beaten up but by the beating being perpetrated by a group he views as distinctly less than.</p> <p>Also, I imagine getting trampled by horses is pretty damn traumatizing to begin with.</p> </blockquote> <p><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvrzdy4Jqv1r37w8so1_500.gif"/></p> <p>#um no #centaurs rape people #this is a part of their mythology #it’s what they do #period #i don’t think someone who did as much freakin’ research as jkr somehow overlooked that #centaurs rape people - specifically women #and EVEN IF THEY WEREN’T CENTAURS #IT WOULD STILL BE IMPLIED RAPE #a bunch of angry dudes drag a screaming woman into the woods? </p> </blockquote> <p>You’re completely overlooking the fact that she’s a bigot and would be upset by this even if they were women. Also, do we know that they’re all male? I don’t have the book here. Also, the original post that inspired all this uses <em>one source</em>, and specifically says at the end:</p> <blockquote> <p>Please note that this is a <strong>feminist reading of a text</strong>. It does not mean that I believe Rowling intended for these things to happen. When a work is published, it becomes something that is up for interpretation by many different disciplines. A feminist reading of a text finds hidden meanings and reads against the grain - <strong>it does not say anything about the author’s intentions</strong>.</p> </blockquote> <p>I just don’t see a violent gang rape being included in <em>Harry Potter</em>. I don’t disagree that you <em>can</em> make that argument, but you <em>can</em> make all kinds of arguments. You can read it through all kinds of viewpoints from various disciplines. That’s what academics do. It may have little or nothing to do with the actual story. As someone says in the comments:</p> <blockquote> <p>I think it’s an interesting reading and agree with Liz in that her take on it is based on an idea, which she further researched. It’s not a absolute truth, it’s a feminist reading. You could also do a Marxist reading of Harry Potter and say that wizardry is presented as the socialist alternative to the capitalist human world (I don’t actually think that but I do think a feasible argument could be made for that). So does that make Rowling a Communist? I doubt it.</p> </blockquote> <p>Also, please don’t respond with a snotty gif and then entirely in tags. It makes responding really frustrating, as I have to retype them into the body of the post lest people think they’re mine.</p>http://clapifyoulike.me/post/17071182297http://clapifyoulike.me/post/17071182297Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:44:57 -0500tw rape<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lymg073W6e1qzcv7no1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lymg073W6e1qzcv7no2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lymg073W6e1qzcv7no3_400.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lymg073W6e1qzcv7no4_r1_400.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lymg073W6e1qzcv7no5_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lymg073W6e1qzcv7no6_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://stream.pleated-jeans.com/post/16765662225/the-queen-via">pleatedjeans</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>the queen. <a href="http://9gag.com/gag/2253453">via</a></p> </blockquote> <ol><li>No LBJ?</li> <li>This order is upsetting. It goes down, diagonal up, down, diagonal down, down, diagonal up, down, diagonal down, down, diagonal up. What the hell.</li> </ol>http://clapifyoulike.me/post/17070616355http://clapifyoulike.me/post/17070616355Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:34:22 -0500insanity