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We watched the live action Sailor Moon series in anime club today. I think my IQ dropped a few points; my heckling is generally at least slightly more coherent than, "Oh, my god, *why* - that doesn't even make sense! Oh, god, you can see the puppeteer's arm - did that cactus just go through *mitosis* - oh, no, *why?* WHY ARE THEY SINGING?"
As I was walking back to the dorm just now, a girl ran across the street to avoid me. This was not a coincidence - she was staring at me with her eyes bugged out, and she slowed down immediately once she was past me. I was, of course, wearing a long black coat and fedora...
...But, I mean, I'm kind of *small*. And this girl was something like a foot taller than I am. Also, I'm female, and affluent and Jewish, though I guess I couldn't expect her to know the second two, but in any case, I am definitely not in any of those demographics that get a lot of violent crimes pinned on them. I now know how it feels to be a large black man.
Seriously, I've been sitting here trying to figure out what I was doing that might freak out someone twice my size, but I think I was pretty much just walking - a few minutes before I'd suddenly thought of Negaverse hair and giggled, but there were shrubs and crap in the way and she wouldn't have seen that. So I'm ending up falling back on stereotyping myself, and have decided that she must just have been an Eastern European international student.
This is because two of the Eastern European international student girls I've met have had weird phobias, and my broad generalizations strikes hard and fast like lightning. If it makes sense for a broad generalization to *strike*. But anyway, I'm guessing that her particular silly-East-European-girl phobia must be of fedoras, since if it was the black coat she'd have been hospitalized by now - there's just way too many of them running around campus - and the same goes for short smirking people and little oval glasses.
I'm pretty sure she came out of the freshmen-only dorm that's right next to mine, so I guess I'm going to have to run into her again, and presumably scare her again, since I do kind of wear trenchcoats and fedoras a *lot*. Hopefully this will give her the courage to face up to her fears and break out of this terrible East European girl stereotype that an uncaring world has created for her.
I think I'm going to fall asleep on the keyboard in a second.
As I was walking back to the dorm just now, a girl ran across the street to avoid me. This was not a coincidence - she was staring at me with her eyes bugged out, and she slowed down immediately once she was past me. I was, of course, wearing a long black coat and fedora...
...But, I mean, I'm kind of *small*. And this girl was something like a foot taller than I am. Also, I'm female, and affluent and Jewish, though I guess I couldn't expect her to know the second two, but in any case, I am definitely not in any of those demographics that get a lot of violent crimes pinned on them. I now know how it feels to be a large black man.
Seriously, I've been sitting here trying to figure out what I was doing that might freak out someone twice my size, but I think I was pretty much just walking - a few minutes before I'd suddenly thought of Negaverse hair and giggled, but there were shrubs and crap in the way and she wouldn't have seen that. So I'm ending up falling back on stereotyping myself, and have decided that she must just have been an Eastern European international student.
This is because two of the Eastern European international student girls I've met have had weird phobias, and my broad generalizations strikes hard and fast like lightning. If it makes sense for a broad generalization to *strike*. But anyway, I'm guessing that her particular silly-East-European-girl phobia must be of fedoras, since if it was the black coat she'd have been hospitalized by now - there's just way too many of them running around campus - and the same goes for short smirking people and little oval glasses.
I'm pretty sure she came out of the freshmen-only dorm that's right next to mine, so I guess I'm going to have to run into her again, and presumably scare her again, since I do kind of wear trenchcoats and fedoras a *lot*. Hopefully this will give her the courage to face up to her fears and break out of this terrible East European girl stereotype that an uncaring world has created for her.
I think I'm going to fall asleep on the keyboard in a second.
