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October 21, 2017

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The internet’s cracking up over this very telling pic of Doug Jones’ son.

On Wednesday, January 3, 2017, Doug Jones was sworn into the U.S. Senate.

Photo by Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images.

Jones, whose special election victory over republican Roy Moore flipped Alabama politics on its head, was joined by his wife Louise, and sons Carson and Christopher for the occasion.

Carson, Doug, Louise, and Christopher Jones. Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images.

The ceremony was relatively uneventful, all things considered. But one photo from the day began to ... catch people's attention.

The image captured Jones' son Carson appearing to give some some serious side-eye to Vice President Mike Pence during his father's swearing-in ceremony.

Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images.

Carson is openly gay. Pence openly hates gay people.

Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images.

And that look truly is worth a thousand words.

No one confirmed Carson was staring maliciously at Pence, of course. In all likelihood, Carson's expression was nothing but fateful timing caught in the flash of the camera.

But of course, that didn't stop the internet from noticing.

In the blink of a (side-)eye, the photo blew up social media in spectacular fashion.

"Photo of the decade: Doug Jones being sworn in, while his openly gay son QUIETLY DISINTEGRATES THE SOUL OF MIKE PENCE," author Derek Milman quipped.

Photo of the decade: Doug Jones being sworn in, while his openly gay son QUIETLY DISINTEGRATES THE SOUL OF MIKE PENCE. http://pic.twitter.com/wTKHAZSrOx

— Derek Milman (@DerekMilman) January 4, 2018

Queer men, especially, had a field day.

YouTuber and LGBTQ activist Tyler Oakley relished in Carson's glare: "Don't fuck with us, [Pence]."

don’t fuck with us @VP https://t.co/WXDSBmKdXI

— Tyler Oakley (@tyleroakley) January 4, 2018

Carson glaring at the V.P. "is all of us," one user wrote.

Doug Jones openly gay son Carson glaring at openly homophobic VP Mike Pence is ALLLLLLLLLL of us. #SHADE http://pic.twitter.com/ZPZpfXvz4J

— mktoon (@mktoon) January 4, 2018

"Doesn't get much better than this," wrote another.

Homophobe Mike Pence swearing in Democratic Senator Doug Jones from Alabama with his gay son serving him looks like daggers. Doesn't get much better than this. https://t.co/eI0UOUNoZS

— Peachy 🍑🌈❤ (@gapeachy7) January 3, 2018

"I thought Carson Jones ... was already hot," someone chimed in. "But this side-eye has me sweating."

I thought Carson Jones, Doug Jones’ gay son, was already hot, but this side eye has me sweating. http://pic.twitter.com/pl7VqeZpji

— Hosseh Enad (@ehosseh) January 4, 2018

"Someone buy the rights to adapt this staring contest between Carson Jones and Mike Pence," The Wrap's Matt Donnelly said.

Someone buy the rights to adapt this staring contest between Carson Jones and Mike Pence. http://pic.twitter.com/wwAD9s1S6j

— Matt Donnelly (@MattDonnelly) January 4, 2018

Other users noted that — with or without the side-eye — it was great seeing the vice president swearing in a political opponent while the new senator's gay son stood proudly nearby.

The pic felt like "my new cozy blankie," said Alex Blagg.  

This photo of Doug Jones being sworn in by Mike Pence while standing next to his openly gay son is my new cozy blankie http://pic.twitter.com/XCPN76Rc8g

— Alex Blagg (@alexblagg) January 4, 2018

Carson's viral photo is just the latest incident of internet mockery aimed at Pence from the LGBTQ community.

Just last week, a neighbor of Pence's Colorado vacation home hung a "Make America Gay Again" rainbow flag on a stone pillar near the vice president's driveway. The story quickly blew up on both LGBTQ and mainstream media.

In the spirit of Aspen, residents welcome Vice President Mike Pence, like everyone else, with a message of inclusiveness https://t.co/Ldef4hjhxu http://pic.twitter.com/4p0PGIlQqb

— Aspen Times (@TheAspenTimes) December 30, 2017

Last January, a "queer dance party" erupted outside the then-vice president elect's Washington, D.C. home. The event was organized by Werk For Peace, a "grassroots movement using dance to promote peace," BuzzFeed reported.

"This is our dance party!" supporters yelled in the street. "Daddy Pence, come dance!"

Queer dance party outside Mike Pence's house http://pic.twitter.com/sQvlha4uGW

— Left Wing Infantry (@CrappyMovies) January 19, 2017

The dance parties, rainbow flags, and side-eyes are all in good fun, of course — but LGBTQ people also understand that Pence's record on queer rights is no joke.

In the past, the vice president has supported conversion therapy — which promotes the lie that LGBTQ sexual orientation and/or gender identity and expression — particularly in children — can and should be changed through "therapy." Many consider it a form of child abuse that can ruin and even end lives.

Pence is fervently anti-marriage equality and opposed the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." He allowed an HIV outbreak to flourish in rural Indiana as governor and once voted against measures to protect LGBTQ people from employment discrimination. Pence also claimed government "has no business" guaranteeing that transgender students have the right to use the bathroom that corresponds with their gender.

Now, as the second-most politically powerful person in the U.S., his abhorrent record on equal rights has alarmed LGBTQ advocates across the country. For queer people, his vision for the future of America is certainly worth resisting.

But sometimes, resisting can entail smaller actions, like dance parties, clever "MAGA" slogans, and — yes — some serious side-eye.

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January 25th 8pm myself, Raul Zambrano, Matt Blagg, Alex Peregrino, Alec Parent,  and Myles Magallanes will be at the La Jolla Comedy Store. Come laugh fam. (at Rancho Mesa Mobilehome Park)

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— Alex Blagg (@alexblagg) November 20, 2019

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The Oscars snubbed 'The Florida Project' because we don't like stories of women in poverty

And the award for the best social-issue movie of the year goes to ... a story about a woman who falls in love with a fish.

An oppressed fish. An impoverished fish. But ya know. A fish.

That's the message many who care about this shit felt like they heard after the 2018 Oscar nominees were announced on Tuesday. Guillermo's del Toro's The Shape of Water, an interspecies romance, earned an impressive 13 nominations, while The Florida Project, a story about a single mother in poverty and her puckish young daughter, garnered just one. It was a Best Supporting Actor nom for Willem Dafoe, an already well recognized dude. 

There's plenty of non-depressing reasons behind the snub (The Florida Project feels like a traditional unwinnable art house indie, for one) — as well as one that shouldn't be ignored: Oscar voters don't historically like to look at women who are poor, especially when they're asked to stare at their poverty straight on.

SEE ALSO: Here are all your 2018 Oscar nominees

The Florida Project is set in some of America's most stigmatized real estate: a neon purple welfare motel in Kissimmee, Florida, right outside of Orlando. Its subjects include a young mother, Halley (Bria Vinaitte), her six-year-old daughter, Moonee (Brooklynn Prince), as well as Bobby Hicks (Willem Dafoe) the building's hardworking manager who has a soft spot for Moonee's small troubled family. 

Image: Cre Film/Freestyle/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock

Narratives about poverty do, of course, make it to the awards stage on occasion (Precious, The Blind Side), but they're different. Unlike other films in its genre, The Florida Project manages to be driven by empathy without ever lapsing into sentimentality or romanticization. 

There aren't any rescuers in The Florida Project like there are in The Blind Side —  just kind people who try and frequently fail. There aren't many men. Halley is both a victim of "the system" and an active participant in it. Moonee is a spectacularly charismatic young rascal, as well as a destructively obnoxious one. Their lives are shaped by joy and by trauma; everyone is to blame for their plight, and no one is.

And unlike any of these films, there's nothing firm that viewers can hold onto at the conclusion of The Florida Project to give them hope. No shiny adoptive family is coming to liberate Monee. At the age of six, she's not about to enter a satisfying romantic relationship like in Moonlight. All director Sean Baker leaves us with is Monee's pint-sized resilient spirit, which is simultaneously real and absolutely soul-crushing.

That can be hard for any American to digest, forget an Academy voter. If you're a person with any hint of privilege, it should give you guilt. Women make up a disproportionate share of people in poverty, with 13.1 percent of all women living under or at the poverty line, compared to just 11.1 percent for men. 

And the film's specific pain just might be too removed from the lived experiences of the Academy pool. In 2017, just 28 percent of Academy voters were women, and only 13 percent were people of color. While I can't speak for the entire Academy class, it's safe to assume that the majority of Academy voters likely didn't grow up in Florida's welfare hotels and can't identify with Moonee's particular trauma. 

In the Academy's defense, they probably haven't lost their daughter and put up three billboards about her death in the middle of Missouri, either. But for a brutal film, Three Billboards offers so much more hope to viewers than The Florida Project. Racists are redeemable in Ebbing, Missouri. Hardworking heroic cops exist. Domestic abusers can make good parents. And sometimes they're even funny! 

The fictional Ebbing, Missouri, feels so hyperbolic and so distant from how a real Missouri small town might behave, it's downright soothing. Sean Baker's Kissimmee, on the other hand, is hot, sweaty, and grounded by social realism. There isn't enough humor to protect us from the story's trauma. The Florida Project doesn't have the magic of dissociation other films in its category typically do.

I was legitimately stunned "The Florida Project" wasn't nominated for Best Picture. Then I remembered it's a gritty, unromantic look at poverty that forces the viewer to recognize conditions that actually exist in this country for millions of children.#Oscars2018

— Charlotte Clymer🏳️‍🌈 (@cmclymer) January 23, 2018

To be clear, I can't identify with any of The Florida Project's particularly traumas myself. As a social worker who worked in foster care, however, I can speak to the realism of some the film's "helper" characters. I know what it's like to be Willem Dafoe and the movie's social workers, wanting to help but with none of the right tools. As a viewer, you undergo an almost parallel experience, sitting motionless as a group of people you've come to love breaks down before your eyes.

Image: M Schmidt/Cre Film/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock

Social-issue dramas that have familiar traumas — or romantic, guilt-free endings — tend to perform better than stories like The Florida Project. It shouldn't surprise us that Three Billboards, the story of a white racist cop who becomes a feminist hero after getting a stern talking-to, racked up seven nominations. 

The movie shares the same fantasy that every WaPo and New York Times "Trump voters in a diner piece" of the past year contains. Every character is a part of a "working family," no one is poor. In all of these pieces, racism is a kind of virus, one that's easily cured with a trenchant monologue and always by the end of the story.

Sorry The Florida Project, you were a subtle and humane look at living poverty, but Three Billboards had a hilarious racist cop and kept saying "retard" a bunch of times

— Alex Blagg (@alexblagg) January 23, 2018

What a lovely little lie. 

There are movies that buck the Academy's trend — Get Out racked up three nominations in 2018, Moonlight brought home Best Picture in 2017 — but they tend to be the exception rather than the rule. Their success is entirely novel, and is often met with quiet pushback.

Talking to Oscar voters and the two worst things I'm hearing right now are, "I liked Get Out, but...come on" and "I liked Call Me By Your Name, but we did that last year." And if they're saying that to ME, they're saying it. 1/

— Mark Harris (@MarkHarrisNYC) January 3, 2018

Before you comment, I know, I get it. There are reasons why The Florida Project may have been snubbed that have nothing to do with our cultural biases. It was a small budget film that never enjoyed commercial success of its competitors, grossing just $5.6 million domestically. The Florida Project didn't involve a world war, which is always foolproof Oscar material, or any major names outside of Dafoe.

It's to be expected. And still worth our outrage. 

Imagine how many people would have seen The Florida Project if it had gotten a Best Picture nom. Imagine how many more viewers would be tasked to feel for Halley's family and the real-life mothers and daughters they represent. Who knows what kind of change it could inspire?

Viewers can't save Moonee from her ending, but the least they can do is listen to her story.

'The Florida Project' is currently in selected theaters, and will be available on Amazon Video and iTunes on January 30th.

WATCH: 'Get Out' receives 4 Oscar nominations and the internet is ecstatic

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Comedy Central has greenlit an unscripted series from standup comedian Moshe Kasher, Variety has learned.

“Problematic with Moshe Kasher” is set to premiere in 2017. The weekly series invites viewers to bring their online outrage into the studio for a raucous discussion of today’s most polarizing topics from social media with the help of experts, comedians and the studio audience.

“I see myself as the Phil Donahue of the Internet Age, except not as funny or dialed into millennial culture,” said Kasher. “This show will create a safe space for offensive comedy and more importantly engender conversations that will completely end all acrimony, racism, sexism, trolling and whatever else you find offensive online once and for all. I promise.”

Kasher will exec produce with Series Business’ Alex Blagg, Jason Nadler, Jon Zimelis, plus Dave Beck and Josh Lieberman of 3 Arts Entertainment. Monika Zielinska and Tara Schuster are the executives in charge of production for Comedy Central.

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