#Or earned the disrespect

[joeey-dee]

Unpopular opinion but Felicity didn't deserve the career she had and didn't work for it, it was just handed to her by men she was involved with. She was severly underqualified and had no understanding of a company's hierachy and zero respect for anyone, including her superiors. It wasn't badass, it was cringe.

She was promoted from simple IT worker to EA of the CEO not for talent, not because of her experience, not because of her degree, not because of her professionalism (which she was entirely lacking) but simply because Oliver was an idiot who didn't realize the issue of "If I'm going to be Oliver Queen CEO, then I can't very well travel down 18 floors every time you and I need to discuss how we spend our nights." could've been easily taken care of by the CEO requesting she travel up the 18 floors to come see him at his office, where they could privately discuss how they spent their nights. You're the boss, have the employees come to you, not the other way around. No need to give her one hell of a promotion she didn't even appreciate.

It was absolutely no surpise Isabel and most of QC drew the conclussion she was sleeping with Oliver and got the job because of that. Her wardrobe changed from professional to too short, colorful and tight dresses, she openly disrespected her boss every chance she got, in front of other employees, his business partner (who was trying to take the company from him), and even clients. Why should anyone respect Oliver in is role as CEO if not even his EA showed him any respect and tried to demean and ridicule him any chance she got? And regularly pointed out that he'd dropped out of college? She was so ungrateful and acted as if the job was beneath her, not understanding just how important an EA for the CEO and their work is. People spend years to reach that position and it was handed to her for nothing while she was in her early twenties, overgoing more qualified personal in senior positions. It's no wonder QCs employees harbored animosity towards him. His choice was very unprofessional and the way Felicity behaved made Oliver look like a joke and not someone to be taken seriously and knew what he was doing.

Also, she was then responsible for Oliver losing the company. Showed zero loyalty towards him by taking the job his rival who took the company from him offered, then sleeping with said man to get back at a grieving Oliver and a rise out of him. (And can we just take a minute to dissect the fact she got mad at him for 'not caring about Sara, his Sara's death' but then expected him to get over it right this second and jump in a relationship with her, make it make sense! Do you want him to grieve the woman he'd loved for eight years or do you want him to pretend he doesn't care and get involved with you right away? Make up your mind woman!) Using Ray to get what she wants. Ray hands the company over to her even after the shitty and disrespectful way she treated him, used him really, while she had zero qualifications to run it. She got the company because she was sleeping with Ray. And Ray later on in Legends regrets that choice after she ran it to the ground.

Felicity never considers offering the company to Thea, after she and Oliver broke up. Oliver might not have wanted it but Thea may have and she'd been a great choice. Felicity uses the company's scientific discoveries for her own personal needs, does a really bad job with the board who obviously neither like nor respect her, she hasn't earned her position, she might have gone to MIT but she doesn't have a business degree, any understanding of how an international company like QC is being run and lacking the people skills to potentially make up for her lack of knowledge nor is she willing to listen to and learn from other people because she feels she knows best, she graduated from MIT! What do those people with their business majors and years upon years of experience in the field know compared to her IT knowledge from MIT?

Felicity literally slept herself into the position she was in and it was no wonder she wasn't respected by the company's board and employees. She'd done nothing to earn that position or their respect.

Let me know what you guys think and if I'm alone with this opinion on the matter. It just always bugged me how little respect was shown for the position of an EA and how unrealistic Felicity's rise in the company was. One degree isn't interchangable with another and it doesn't matter how prestigious the college you graduated from was if your degrees aren't in the field you now work in. You might be the most knowledgable about computers but that doesn't mean you know how to run an international billion dollar company and she obviously didn't.

[icedenceladus]

maybe I’m being presumptuous but if the issues are limited to PWHL Minnesota rather than being widespread in the league, I’ll eat my left shoe

[pedripics]

Vinicius to Gavi, during their bout in the Clasico: “But on Monday, I’m going to win the Ballon d’Or”

gavi has the chance to do the funniest thing ever

[wynndigogh]

If you needed a reminder, a sign, or permission:

Having boundaries or being direct isn't bad.

I was honored to have this conversation over the weekend with a friend I have not seen in 2 yrs. The advice was needed and welcomed. A heart and spirit healed.

I love the saying, walk softly but carry a big stick. Be capable of winning the fight but also capable of choosing when the fight is the only course left.

[elizabeth-mitchells]

actually one of my favorite parts of s2 so far has been that Misty almost completely gave up her obsession with Coach Ben. like. she's an ally, guys. he said he was gay, she processed the information, and she suddenly started respecting his boundaries

[masked-alien-lesbian]

Aaaannndd that's why they don't respect you, dipshit

[astralleywright]

still thinking abt this post bc like, while i agree overall and also get why they drew this specific conclusion, i think the idea that characters should be studied in a vacuum completely removed from other characters in the story kind of fails in the opposite way? people are highly social creatures whose self is tremendously influenced by (or even completely in response to) the people around us, and a good story will reflect this. like, you COULD analyze imogen and laudna as characters while completely ignoring their relationship to the other, but then you have removed one of the biggest motivations for most of their choices and development. but also that post is right as this is not actually what a lot of shippers are doing. a lot of shippers are interested near exclusively in the existence of romantic/sexual attraction and slotting characters into the shippy fanfic tags or tropes or memes they like the best, and will actively ignore or even contradict who a character actually is to do so. but i think actually analyzing a dynamic (not just determining if you want them to kiss or not) is a great way to better understand the characters involved and i did not want its good name besmirched like that

[envolvenuances]

like it's not that people particularly like me or respect me. torn opinions on whether I am a self hating bisexual repressing my attraction to men or a self hating lesbian repressing my truth (I am a confident bisexual women with a preference for other women and enough age to admit men didn't make me happy). but I am taken more seriously and the reactions (especially from the neoliberal rebranded homophobia crew) are less aggressive. almost like I passed the ritual served my time as an object to men. a concerning amount of people on every social circle and political opinions still seem to believe lesbians have to "just try it" "just to be sure". otherwise they are either infantilized as eternal virgins who never reach complete womanhood. or vilified as fetishist predatory towards women in what is so obviously mere punishment for their complete proud and certain rejection of men. everyone is so lesbophobic it's unreal

[moe-broey]

Also the first time Moe actually "honors" the Prince title is to mock Alfonse (calling him Prince Charming for coming on too strong and smiling so warm and sincere it makes Moe flinch)

[princeofuchiha]

Me reading or hearing the word Sir in media: Okay. A word. Nothing wrong here. Professional vibes.

Me, writing the word Sir: Oh god this is humiliating he can't say that.

[aztr0punk]

me when im trying to have a good day but my stupid fuckass disrespectful mother comes out her face randomly with some horribly timed idiotic shit where she omits herself from doing wrong (wrong is all she knows how to do):

[persephonbee]

"respect is earned" actually no, disrespect is earned. basic human respect comes free with your existence. treating people with disrespect because you think they haven't earned the right to be treated like a person is a way to earn my disrespect tho

[nikster1111]

finally doing the penacony quests and… I UNDERSTAND WHY EVERYONE IS GETTING WHIPLASH LMAOOO

i’m at the point where firefly… erm. i don’t even know what happened bc i know she’s sam???

also making her and acheron fight only to get us alone with aventurine ??? (actually big brain though) only to say acheron is dangerous and you protected me from her????

this is why, in games, i always trust no one. black swan and aventurine better start coughing up proof that i can trust them now 🤨🤨

[yikes-ajax]

I so badly wish I could catch my cat running and meowing down the hall at the same time on camera. You can hear each step in her voice.

I had taken her collar off to let the skin there breathe tonight, so when she started playing with it, I let her scamper off with it in her mouth. I think she realized that she was no longer wearing her collar, and in fact packing it around, because hardly a minute later she came running back to give it to me, sounding genuinely distressed to the point I thought something scared her. She just wanted the collar back on :P

[bywandandsword]

I've decided not to trust people who

Don't like kids

Say things like "Unfortunately, I'm attracted to men"

Kids are just little people who are still actively figuring out the world. I get not wanting kids and not wanting to spend time with them, but actively hating them and being mean to them just cause they're kids is being an asshole. Disparaging men as a whole is also just being an asshole. You don't have to dis on men just to uplift women. The point is equality. Yeah, criticize patriarchy and judge individual men on their actions, but in demonizing men as a group, you push those men farther away and miss out on half the species' potential for friends and allies