Everybody, just STOP. Stop whatever you are doing and IMAGINE:
Alicia Zimmermann as the retired hockey legend married to Bob Zimmermann semi-famous actor/model.
First, Jack wouldn’t feel as overshadowed. Instead of being compared to his dad, a lot of the guys in the locker would have made fun of him or said crude things about his mom. Jack gets into a lot more fights in this universe, but he is just as talented.
Alicia knows how to nurture that without making him feel that’s the only thing he’s good for.
Alicia and Jack make fun of Bob’s terrible movies. He played a rookie in an 80’s classic cop TV show, and the two of them know the lines by heart. They spend holidays reenacting the worst scenes, and there’s a game where one of them yells strike a pose and do one of his ad campaigns. Alicia wins every time (she takes this very seriously and that’s how she got banned from two different supermarkets).
Jon: You can’t do this! I made you!
Alanna: You better get your run-down, good-for-nothing, loser ass out of my tent right now or I won’t just be done with you – I will be done with Tortall. Then maybe you’ll remember who made who.
now that I’m thinking about it my favorite story about men refusing to shut the fuck up is once I was running a training for the swim lessons program I work for and there was this clutch of guys talking over me and I was the head honcho the big cheese so I looked at them and said “hi yeah I’m talking now can you pay attention please” and they were like “whooooaaaaa hahaha” and their boss was like LISTEN TO HER and I grinned
the stereotype that women talk more than men is infinitely amusing to me because men are literally incapable of shutting the fuck up
i hope this post gets popular enough that i hurt a man’s feelings
It’s not a stereotype it’s a proven fact you femanazi piece of shit.
lmao there it is
You wanna talk proven facts? This shit’s been done, son: researcher Dale Spencer in Australia used audio and video tape to independently evaluate who talked the most in mixed-gender university classroom discussions. Regardless of the gender ratio of the students, whether the instructor was deliberately trying to encourage female participation or not, men always talked more—whether the metric was minutes of talking or number of words spoken.
Moreover, men literally have no clue how much they talk. When Spencer asked students to evaluate their perception of who talked more in a given discussion, women were pretty accurate; but men perceived the discussion as being “equal” when women talked only 15% of the time, and the discussion as being dominated by women if they talked only 30% of the time.
Spencer’s conclusion, if I may parahprase: you only think we talk too much because you’d rather we were silent.
my personal headcanon is worse. he doesn’t pronounce it like /dʒ/ in jiffy or like /g/ in gift. no…this francophone asshole says /ʒɪf/ like the s in measure or g in genre. come the fuck on jaques
bitty is properly horrified
you are 100% right and that was exactly what I was thinking… can you believe I literally googled “french gif” and did research before posting this awful headcanon
I’m so glad that I could combine my abilities in French linguistics and check please shitposting
jack: “bitty, how do you post a jif on twitter?”
bitty: (absentmindedly) “I don’t know, I haven’t learned that word yet. What does it mean in English?”
