So Griffin McElroy was selected as one of Forbes’ 30 under 30 and I just want everyone to appreciate the photo of him on the article
Here it is as it appears in a tweet. It’s a big bussinessy type deal so you’re probably expecting the rest of the pic is just him smiling normal with a nice button down or something. Well.. here’s the full pic:
To the people who say “alternative pronouns were only invented on Tumblr”:
I take it you’ve never heard of thon/thons/thonself? That’s understandable. It’s been a flop… for over 100 years.
Charles Crozat Converse coined thon/thons/thonself in the late 1800s at most.
Sources seem to be mixed on its actual coinage year, but again, it’s agreed to be the 1880s at most. He did actually publish the coining in 1884, though. (Wikitionary says 1858, but that’s the only place I see 1858?)
thedaysaltsavedmylife said: lmao and they/them have been used as singular pronouns for seven hundred years but ya know who needs facts when you can just buy a fedora
Other gender neutral pronouns that were invented outside of, or even predate, Tumblr (list is far from comprehensive, these are just used more widely, have historical significance, and/or are in print):
Spivak pronouns, originally invented 1975, and used in online communities for a while. Ey/em/eir/eirs/emself (the Elverson set). (There’s also a few variants that popped up later). There’s actual publications using these; they were the standard after singular they until recently
Ve/ver/vis/vis/verself - proposed by the writer Keri Hulme in the 1980s. Used by Greg Egan in the science fiction novel Distress, published 1995.
Hu/hum/hus/humself (from ‘human’ I think) was used for a bit by Sasha Newborn, starting 1982
The coinage of the ze and xe pronoun sets is uncertain as far as I can tell, but variants on the ze pronoun sets are the second most popular gender neutral pronouns currently, after singular they. The Random House Dictionary puts the coinage of ze or zie in 1970-1975, noting an etymological derivation from German Sie, which sounds potentially inaccurate to me, since there was pushback against similarity to Sie from the genderqueer community
Xe is usually considered a derivative of ze, but it appears in the Unitarian Universalist magazine UU World in May 1973, before ze was in common use. It’s possible xe was coined independently multiple times
Nounself pronouns are the only ones that seem to have originated on tumblr, from the overlap of the otherkin and nonbinary communities (though like the modern otherkin community started to emerge in the 1960s so still not entirely a “tumblr thing”)
okay so like this whole post is great but ngl the only thing we can keep thinking about and chuckling at rn is “who needs facts when you can just buy a fedora”
THEY CANCELED THE WHOLE MUSICAL INSTEAD OF JUST HIRING ACTORS WHO WEREN’T WHITE
Wow
As much as racial diversity is a good thing, you’re not gonna find an entire cast of acting Egyptians in New York…
do you, um… do you understand how large and diverse new york is? between 2008-2012, there were 39,000+ egyptians living in new york, new jersey, and long island. that number has probably only increased. it’s not difficult for me to imagine that many of them are either working actors or aspiring actors. and that’s just egyptian immigrants. these roles could be played by people of egyptian descent. i don’t have a statistic for you on that one, but again, new york is densely populated and very diverse. i can’t imagine it would be that difficult to find egyptian actors, especially if you put out a casting call specifically for egyptians
Also there are tons of North African Jews for the Israelites lmao
I personally know off the top of my head enough multi-talented MENA Jews to fully cast a historically accurate Broadway show and you’re telling me that a massive theater company with a large budget and financial backing couldn’t pull something together with an open casting call in New York City?
Bullshit.
imagine being this isolated from the world.
This is one of many consequences of the whitewashing of cities like New York and LA in media, too. When shows and movies consistently portray these cities as containing 95-100% white people even in background shots (hey Fantastic Beasts, how’re you doing!), folks like @minus-three wind up genuinely convinced that that is what those cities look like.
What’s the most ridiculous thing you’ve bullshitted someone into believing?
When me and my siblings were much younger my dad owned a Volvo car with a computerized voice. It was a very deep voice that would give you warnings about the car’s status. “The boot (trunk) is not shut” being one I remember. Very creepy now I look back at it.
Me, my older brother and our dad would joke that the voice came from “a little man” inside the car. My younger sister was at an age where you could tell her anything and she would take it as gospel. She actually believed there was a tiny person with an extraordinarily deep voice living in the car. We kept it going for a long time until one day someone crashed into the vehicle and it ended up in the scrapyard. As she cried for the safety of the little man we had to tell her the truth. She was mad at us for weeks.
I convinced my kids that my car’s triangular, red, hazard button was a ‘self destruct’ button. This was initially to keep them from hitting it since it is a really prominently placed, large, red button. This worked out great until I quickly pulled the car over the other day to get a dog off the road. Threw on my hazards and jumped out of the car after the dog. I looked back and both kids are hitting the ditch.
Dealing with that kind of betrayal must have been hard for them. “Dad hit the self-destruct and ran away!!!”
Dad killed a dog, hit self-destruct on the car to remove all evidence and witnesses and ran away.
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