Tag: funny

my students react to greek mythology

thoodleoo:

  • “no offense but why would you follow dionysus if that means you have to party in the woods” “why wouldn’t you?”
  • *after learning about the chimera*“dude what you can’t be a lion AND a goat AND a dragon that’s too many”
  • “in fairness, if apollo wanted to date me, i’d turn into a tree too”
  • “she can’t be his wife, she’s his sister” “that didn’t stop zeus”
  • *after learning medusa gave birth to pegasus” “OUCH????”
  • “is there anybody zeus didn’t get pregnant”
  • “like seriously i had to make a mythology family tree for english class and it’s literally all zeus”
  • “hera’s kind of a jerk” “dude she literally threw her kid off a mountain because he was too ugly what did you expect
  • “why is everything about horses”
  • “oh, he starts eating people! typical”
  • “so basically you shouldn’t ever interact with a bull in ancient greece ever”

“oh, he starts eating people! typical”

😆😅😂

Black Panther’s T’Challa competes on SNL’s Black Jeopardy

jkottke:

Chadwick Boseman, who portrays T’Challa in Black Panther, hosted Saturday Night Live over the weekend, appearing in character on Black Jeopardy. Let’s just say T’Challa finds it challenging to understand the cultural references and idioms of contemporary American Black English but eventually gets the hang of it. I laughed solidly, and at times uncomfortably, through the entire thing.

See also Tom Hanks’ appearance on Black Jeopardy, which Jamelle Bouie highlighted as a particularly astute piece of American political analysis.

newyorker:

How Women See How Male Authors See Them

The canon is lousy with authors who yearn to be admired for their sensitivity to the full range of female personhood, be that personhood luscious, pert, or swelling coyly against a sheer camisole. These are writerly men confident that they’ve nailed women’s psyches, all because of how single-mindedly they want to nail women.

Read more on the ridiculousness that ensues when bookish men perform interest in women’s inner lives out of a misbegotten sense of nobility.Â