SURPRISE! Many Such Takes: Tourette's BAFTAs, Mamdani/Trump, Conservative Sex Tips, and More
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MST is back!
Well, surprise. I decided to throw Many Such Takes, my weekly Internet (mostly Twitter-based) drama/comedy roundup, back in the mix. Mostly, it’s because this week was almost perfectly-engineered to trigger a MST.
But also, I got several notes from people who said they missed it—even unsubscribed over the lack of it—and even though Twitter was really bad for my mental health, I realized a great deal of that amounted to having the app on my phone (I’ve since uninstalled the app) and having all notifications turned on (now I only get notifications from people I follow, and I don’t check DMs.) All things considered, I think I can responsibly consume Twitter now.
I don’t know if MST will be weekly now—it takes a lot of work and time, more than my usual articles. And publishing 5x/week with no editor or employees is really hard, especially while being the full-time childcare provider. But I will try to run MST at least twice a month, if I can.
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Tourette’s BAFTAs
Okay, so this week, Twitter imploded for a really amazing, perfect MST reason.
The best drama always happens when two -isms are pitted against each other. After a disability advocate with Tourette’s shouted the N-word at the BAFTAs award ceremony, the Internet decided that actually, Tourette’s famously does not make you shout offensive words in public. John Davidson, (who openly has Tourette’s and who was the subject of a biopic presented at the BAFTAs) must have been so racist that he deliberately shouted a racial slur in public, on live TV, for fun. Or at the very least, he said it because Tourette’s merely unlocked the true workings of his mind (Note: it doesn’t work that way).
To be clear, it would be extremely upsetting for Black people to hear a horrible racial epithet hurled in their direction, even from someone with Tourette’s! Truly a “this sucks for everyone involved” situation. But damn, did it make for some…interesting takes.
One person suggested that actually, people with Tourette’s should simply gag themselves in public.
wearing a ball gag at the BAFTAs oh hehehe, don’t mind me, this is for my “Tourette’s” and that guy whipping me is just doing it in case I say a slur.
Then, there’s…whatever this is (I’m admittedly struggling to understand where this one went.)
Another one, which can be summed up as “Why would you even know what the N-word was unless you were racist?”
This person (name censored by the Twitter user who posted it) believes that a person with Tourette’s involuntarily saying a racial slur is the same thing as a person in a wheelchair saying a racial slur:
We also have “What if your tic was raping and murdering people”
And some jokes:
And on that note…
Disabled Slave Owners
So, when I first saw someone randomly joking about “someone tweeted that slaveowners were disabled” I thought it was a disability advocate saying we should go easier on slaveowners because they were the DoorDash users of their time, riddled with mast cell activation syndrome that makes frozen food deadly. As it turns out, this was actually just adjacent to the whole Tourette’s thing—basically, having Tourette’s doesn’t give you a free pass to say the N-word, because if it did, we’d have to give a free pass to all the disabled slaveowners.
Obviously, lots going on here, because nobody had a form of Tourette’s that forced them to buy slaves against their will. But it’s now in the Twitter Hall of Fame. Shocking to see this type of person still around on Twitter, it’s almost whimsical.
Defense of San Francisco
Urban disorder has been a topic this week, and one guy weighed in with his take about why San Francisco isn’t as bad as the Karens and pearl clutchers make it sound. His evidence includes “only” stepping in human poop six times, and having a cheeky knife pulled on him no more than once. Oh, and a home invasion.
Big points for “shield of privilege” and “problems are caused by how you carry yourself” from someone who (if using his real image as his profile picture) is almost certainly an able-bodied man.
Another reassuring story for all those insane Karens who think San Francisco is dangerous. So what, you might have one gun pulled on you. And have your bike stolen. So what?
He ultimately came pretty close to a ratio, with most people noticing that his reassuring take on things was…hardly reassuring:
Mamdani/Trump
As I have covered before, Trump kinda loves Mamdani. He is everything Trump would hate, and yet, he seems inexplicably drawn to him. This week, they had a “productive” oval office meeting, where Trump agreed to release a student detained by ICE at Mamdani’s request.
How did he do it? By showing up with a prank newspaper:
Conservative Sex Tips
This is more of a deep dive, but I wrote about Evie Magazine and their sex tips for conservative married couples—and how this somehow managed to piss off everyone (including right-wing men?) Anyway…
Funny Tweets/Other Happenings
Me too, man:
Let him cook:
This person, a strong dog pronatalist, who believes we must disincentivize having children by charging more for them to live in an apartment building:
Also, Candace Owens is transvestigating Erika Kirk, if anyone even CARES.
And am I allowed to finish with my own tweet? OF COURSE I AM.
“After a disability advocate with Tourette’s shouted the N-word at the BAFTAs award ceremony”
It wasn’t just a disability advocate - the winning film for ‘Best Actor’ was I Swear, a film all about Tourette’s which was literally *BASED ON HIS LIFE*, and which the lead actor was literally playing him! The biggest irony is that if people had actually bothered to watch the film, they would have understood exactly what happened and why and have complete sympathy for him, hence why the British Black community has more or less turned around and told the Americans where they can shove it. I try to be sympathetic but times like this are when Americans’ cultural blind spots really start to become genuinely obnoxious.
Fortunately the CHH blog is usually a source of common sense and I do appreciate you taking the correct side on this. However for your oversight in not knowing who John Davidson is, I hereby demand that you actually watch I Swear so you have full context for what’s going on here (it’s really good and you’ll be glad you did).
Mamdani showing up in the Oval Office with a fake newspaper is the stuff of which satire used to be made. Yet it worked. There's the cartoon world we live in right now.
Thanks for bringing back Many Such Takes! I didn't realize how much I missed until I saw it again, like a long lost friend.