#like in her case the fact of going public literally jeopardizes her career because it relies on clinical anonymity
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Just read Lilly Jayâs divorce essay and wow, even though the circumstances are wildly different, the loosely similar theme to TTPD of speaking your saddest story to reclaim your personhood (in the public eye) and share your truth with others to help heal are quite striking to me.
The âsponge works best when itâs wetâ metaphor seems pretty apt too.
#like in her case the fact of going public literally jeopardizes her career because it relies on clinical anonymity#but the tradeoff of being seen as human and of knowing sheâs been through these things too#may help others find comfort in her work and in sharing their own experiences#feels extremely appropriate here#also the whole moving to a foreign country for your partner only for the#them to abandon you but đ„Ž#and also the part about grieving the life youâd dreamed of of your future family#and also how sometimes the parts you love the most about your partner are the parts of yourself youâve projected onto them#and that you can take that with you after itâs over because thatâs you
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TGF Thoughts: 3x07-- The One Where Diane and Liz Topple Democracy
Yes Iâm still writing these
âAdmit it. You like having me here. I mean, you didnât think you would. But then, gradually, you realize that Blum is like a shot in the arm,â Blum tells the viewers. I mean, the partners. But heâs definitely talking to the viewers. See, we are supposed to ENJOY him. Weâre supposed to find his terribleness cute and endearing. Weâre supposed to be captivated by him. Hereâs the thing: Iâm not. I just want him to go away and stop being loud, which is how I have felt from the second he first opened his mouth. And when he was silent and I didnât know how loud heâd be? I still wanted him to go away.
Does Blum work better than most of the past attempts at Blum-like figures? Yes. Heâs leaps and bounds better! Is he still an annoying ass pest? HELL FUCKING YES.
Blum compliments the partners on being âcleanâ and âarticulateâ because heâs racist and wants everyone to know it. Itâs cute!! So cute and charming!!
Why are the partners having an end of the year meeting? Is it the end of their fiscal year? Is it December? I want to know.
Blum attributes a Machiavelli quote to Martin Luther King Jr, which is actually kind of hilarious. Even if I donât like him I can appreciate when they write him well.
Blum decides heâs joining the firm and the partners ask for time to confer. Marissa is still wasting her time following him around.
Liz calls Blum a cancer and says they need to get rid of him. I agree! Adrian is on board, but wants to delay him. Iâm sure thatâs going to end well.
Lucca is singing Baby Shark again, which means itâs going to be stuck in my head for another day. Diane comes into her office with a task. Because Luccaâs on hold with the Sweeney divorce, and she has NO OTHER BUSINESS IN THE ENTIRE DEPARTMENT Â SHE MANAGES, Lucca also gets Blum duty. So now Marissa AND Lucca, two of the firmâs best employees, are stuck dealing with his bullshit. A+ management, RBL.
Is there NO OTHER EMPLOYEE at this firm that can do this task? âWe had four associates on it. He sent them out on errands,â Diane explains. What the fuck? Did you not prepare them to deal with him? You gave him a staff, observed him doing no work for three weeks, and were just like, sure, associates, go run errands for Roland Blum!? What kind of management is that?! Surely there is someone at this firm other than Lucca who can ensure that lawyers do lawyering.
âBlum is seductive. We need an adult in the room,â Diane says. I donât know which concerns me more: the fact that Diane is only just now realizing they needed to manage this problem or the fact that Diane doesnât think any of her employees are capable of acting like adults. If thatâs true, thatâs also a management problem, and YIKES.
Julius is a horrible liar.
Is Blum talking to himself this weekâs soliloquy? If so, kinda meh.
Rachelle has brought Liz and Diane a class action about vote rigging in 2016. Isnât Rachelleâs job something in strategy? Shouldnât she be distancing herself from this case and making sure it seems like sheâs never met Liz or Diane?
Yes, the episode just answered it for me. Rachelle is a pollster. This seems dangerous. I also feel like Liz and Diane havenât really made an independent choice since they started working with Rachelle.
Rachelle acts like this case is for real and not a set up. I understand that sheâs effective, but sheâs done so many cagey things in just a few episodes that I would cut all ties. You met her through a literal con artist, first of all. And beyond that, do you really think someone whoâs going to force clients upon you to further their agenda and mess with the dynamics at your firm is not also going to give up your names if and when things get rough?
I may say this again later, but what I dislike most about this episode is that the stakes are so high, and theyâre so real-world. Diane and Liz arenât debating the ethics of voter fraud in the abstract. Theyâre committing a federal crime.
Lucca deals with Blum by⊠doing work. Blumâs âassociateâ-- actor Gary Carr, playing himself-- assists her. Lucca doesnât realize heâs an actor and puts him to work. He clearly doesnât know what heâs doing (because heâs not a lawyer).
Case stuff happens. Diane is instructed by Rachelle to ask for the software architecture, but she doesnât find this suspicious. I know I do. Does the client usually get to tell the lawyer what evidence to request? Seems weird to me.
After court, Diane and Liz ask Rachelle why she needs the software. Uh, after they asked for it in court they ask her why she needs it? They didnât think it was actually relevant and thought the request was suspicious and went along? Also, PRETTY DAMN OBVIOUS THAT ONE REASON TO WANT THE ARCHITECTURE OF A SOFTWARE IS TO HACK IT.
Lucca tells Diane that Gary Carr is doing good work. What? Taking it seriously I get, but good work? Good enough that Lucca would recommend Carr to Diane? All weâve seen him do as a âlawyerâ is misidentify a piece of evidence that Lucca just had to glance at to understand.
As Lucca walks from her office to Blumâs, she overhears some associates talking about Gary Carr. See, heâs an actor and he was on Downton Abbey, a show I never watched more than a few episodes of. Lucca clearly hasnât either. Are any of these associates really weirded out by Maiaâs presence at the firm? Wasnât she on Downton too?
Lucca confronts Gary about lying and asks him to wait in reception. Thereâs some awkwardness/sexual tension (the Kingsâ favorite way to show sexual tension is having people be exceedingly awkward around each other) as he leaves. This plot is fun and fine, but Iâd love for Lucca to get something more substantive.
Book Club meets again and Polly suggests hacking the voting machines. Diane and Liz are stunned. âAre you fucking kidding me?â Diane says, and⊠credits!
Book Clubâs gotten pretty big. Dianeâs completely against vote rigging and everyone else (except Liz) is like BUT WINNING IS MORE IMPORTANT. Polly decides to frame it as a âcorrectionâ for gerrymandering and voter intimidation. This is a more convincing argument. But it is not an argument for why Diane or Liz would risk their lives and careers for this.
Diane and Liz talk, away from the group, and Liz makes a fantastic point: âYou know there are counties right now where black people are so terrorized that they canât even show up at polls? Look, in Georgia, in 2018, a bus filled with black senior citizens was stopped by the police so they wouldnât be allowed to vote. 53,000 voter registrations of black voters were held up by the Georgia Secretary of State. Diane, you donât [know]. Look, we share a lot of things, but we do not share histories. I have a college friend who was kicked off the voter rolls in Ohio. And my uncle was denied the right to vote in the last election in Wisconsin. I mean, at some point, these stories become more than just anecdotes. Theyâre something bigger. This democracy you talk about, this doesnât exist for a lot of us. It didnât exist for my grandparents, it didnât exist for my parents, and it is slowly being taken away from me.â Diane interjects that they should fight it in the courts. âThe courts. The courts that overturned the Civil Rights Voting Act in 2013? So, excuse me if I just need a moment to reflect on this unique possibility. One person hits a few buttons and suddenly black voters are re-enfranchised. That means something very different to me than it does to you.â
WOW. I had to write out that whole speech because itâs great. It calls attention to a very important real world issue (if you want to learn more about voter suppression, I highly recommend One Person, No Vote by Carol Anderson). It doesnât convince me for a second that hacking the voting machines is the right approach, but itâs enough that I understand where Liz is coming from and why Dianeâs idealistic speeches donât sway her.
Even if I donât think this speech does a good job of making me understand why Liz is willing to jeopardize her career (tbh I have a bit of trouble believing Liz would be drawn to Book Club in the first place), itâs so good as an explanation of voter suppression I donât really care.
Rachelle is a master manipulator. She decides to add an amendment to their plan-- only enough votes to offset disenfranchisement of black and Latino voters will be changed. Uh huh. I donât buy it. And even if itâs true, this is so clearly manipulative itâs ridiculous. What about Rachelle is so trustworthy Liz would risk her career to help her?!
Iâm stuck on this, I know, but I canât see Liz making these choices, no matter how good the arguments or how noble the cause.
The group votes and things donât go Dianeâs way⊠but she acts like now that theyâve voted, she has no choice but to break the law. I donât understand. Why is her allegiance to this group when she (and Liz) are the ones who would be most directly responsible for leaking the software architecture?
âYou signed on for this. The ends justify the means, so donât get all outraged that weâre willing to follow through,â Rachelle tells Diane. This sounds a lot like the âweâre defense attorneys, therefore we have to represent Lemond Bishopâ logic I hate so much.
Oh goodie, itâs the weird scene in which I thought Lucca was going to start masturbating, and a Good Fight Short about Downton Abbey. This plotline does nothing for me. When I say I want Lucca plotlines, I donât mean I want weird romances. I mean I want to see Lucca making friends, raising her child, and navigating the workplace.
I will take all the Lucca plots I can get but please, something with substance next time!
Blum is mad and sniffing around Reddickâs sexual harassment issues. Shouldâve just gone public when you had the chance, partners.
Adrian physically attacks Blum, which is⊠a way to handle this. Go away, Blum. Adrian also decides to go after Blumâs illegal courtroom tactics.
Have I mentioned that I love Lizâs office bathroom?
Adrian suggests threatening Blum and Liz responds âthatâs like threatening a bull with a red flag.â If it werenât for the fact that sheâs done nothing to prevent him from infiltrating her firm, I would say Liz has by far the best reactions to Blum.
âWe knew this day would come, Liz,â Adrian explains, referring to the day when the allegations against Carl Reddick would surface. Well if you knew that WHY WOULD YOU PAY OFF THE WOMEN AND MAKE IT LOOK WORSE FOR YOURSELF???
They managed to write a Lucca plot I donât feel like recapping. Thatâs really amazing.
I care even less since I know how it ends.
Diane insists on being the one to argue for obtaining the software architecture, since sheâs a lawyer and itâs her job. She gives a passionate speech thatâs about the sanctity of the vote but itâs really, of course, her argument against voter fraud. The irony!
I donât get why Diane continues to tie herself to this!!! None of this plot makes sense to me from a character POV!!! Well, except the part where Diane gets so angry she follows a con woman to a resistance group. That makes complete sense.
Diane distances herself from the group AFTER arguing in court for the architecture? Okay. Sure. So noble.
Hereâs the best part of this Lucca-dates-Gary-Carr plot: Marissa recognizes him from The Deuce and not Downton Abbey, which is a little detail thatâs verrrrryyyyyy Marissa.
Hey, itâs the subpoena guy! (Yes, I care more about that than watching Blum get a tattoo.)
RBL wants to get Blum disbarred. I want him to be disbarred too, so he can become irrelevant and go away.
Jay finds a Republican hack in the software architecture. Gasp!
Blum starts screaming and banging on windows and everyone ignores him. This scene is an accurate representation of how I feel about Blum. The louder he is, the less I care about him.
Will never be a fan of three way call split screens.
WHY ARE YâALL TALKING ABOUT HACKING VOTING MACHINES ON THE PHONE!? Yâall are smart enough to know how to hack a voting machine but not smart enough to think of burner phones?
And why hasnât Polly already found this malware?
And why do I care?
Rachelle calls Liz âDianeâ over the phone. Liz is making Dianeâs arguments, but I think itâs telling Rachelle sees them as almost interchangeable obstacles. She doesnât really care if sheâs talking to Diane and Liz, as long as sheâs talking to a lawyer who will get her the software architecture and argue her case.
I do not understand Jayâs testimony in court. One, why is Jay testifying instead of a computer science expert? Two, why do his political leanings matter if he could point at an actual section of code?
So this plotline can receive more consistent development than Lucca Quinn herself, Lucca offers to let Gary Carr shadow her.
This episode is a exhausting. I didnât like it the first time and I am having trouble getting through it. Every supporting character who shows up makes me think, âugh.â
Oh! This is the scene with the random unnecessary nudity! If she was going to be topless in this scene why even bother with having her cover up after sex? Either donât show it or go all in. Now Iâm nitpicking a thing that usually doesnât annoy me.
Oh and THIS scene, with Adrian and Dianeâs terribly thought through confrontation of the judge! You donât have to be a genius to know this was the wrong approach. Diane doesnât even know Adrianâs reasoning for believing thereâs judicial bribery.
How many damn times can we do this, âthese are REAL LAWYERS, not TV LAWYERSâ bit? Iâm sick of it. Also, Lucca doesnât like TV? Boo.
Diane and Liz donât win their case. Which is a win for Rachelle.
Now Dianeâs ALL IN!!!!! On vote rigging and wants to push the button to make it happen. Whatever.
Well, thatâs over. I really have three more of these to write?
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Sorry for the long post. :)
This is a breakdown of a post I saw and this is my response to it, issue by issue.
âOkay, itâs time to rant. I am really starting to get fed up with this whole âWomenâs rightsâ thing. What the heck is wrong with women these days?â
Womenâs rights is not a âthingâ it is a movement for equality between men and women of all ages, ethnicity, belief systems, sexuality, position in society, place of origin, and political beliefs. A movement that has existed for more than 100 years, promoting the rights of all humans beings based on the fact that we are ALL human and not some sub-category that is somehow worth less than another. It is a powerful movement that has enabled women to: vote, own property, choose a spouse, choose to have kids, divorce her spouse, drive, go to school, go to college, press charges against rapists and harassers (both of men and women), work in places of power, effect change, and so much more, the main thing is it has been from this movement that we as women can CHOOSE. What is wrong with women indeed, there are enough struggles we have to face without other women adding to them because of being uninformed.
âLet me get this straight, Trump was voted president, and this ruins your life how? What has he ever done to you?â
The fact that we now have President Trump in office for the next 4 years doesnât âruinâ our lives but it does have the potential to make them harder and to jeopardize some of our human rights that he thinks we shouldnât have. In my humble and fairly educated, and constantly evolving, opinion, no one should be able to place a law on what I want to do to MY body, ever. Especially not a bunch of rich, old, white, MEN. My body my choice, would I personally ever choose to have an abortion? Probably not, but I want that choice, because until it has at least a small chance of living outside of my body it is not  its own person and is simply part of my body.
âSure, maybe he insulted women once, but you know what? ITâS NOT THE END OF THE WORLD! â
Our President Trump has insulted women more than just âonceâ and on more than a âfewâ occasions. Quite frankly he doesn't seem to see what is wrong with doing so, but thinks/says that it is all in good fun. Hereâs a couple quotes that I was told when I was a kid and stuck with me âIf you canât say something nice, donât say anything at allâ and âIf the person the joke involves isnât laughing, it isnât funnyâ. I donât find insults to women or anyone really as funny, I find them rude and a good portrait of the person saying it.
âAnd frankly all women who take THAT much offence to a few insults deserves to be insultedâ
âDeserves to be insultedâ? Really so if I call some a âbigoted, fascist, egotistical, emotional infant, bitchy bastard of a SOB, mother f*ckerâ then they have no right to be upset because if they are then they deserve it. Right? Think about that for a bit.
âI am a woman but I donât care that Trump is president, and Trump has three daughter and a wife, do you see them taking any offence? No!â
I am a woman too, and to be entirely honest I thought we were going to be screwed with whoever became president because none of them were fully a âgoodâ choice. Fact check he has two daughters named Ivanka and Tiffany and has had three wives. And how do you know that they donât take offense? People around me who donât know me canât tell when I take offense unless I either let it show or tell them. Just because they are supporting their father and husband in public does not mean they agree with him in private. Donât make assumptions, they make you look like an ass.
âBesides, itâs not like Trump is taking away all of our rights, when did he ever say he was going to do that?â
He is cutting funding to Planned Parenthood, which is not just an organization that does abortion. It is an organization that provides information about: Abortion(what it entails and other options), birth control, contraceptives, the importance of body image, general health care that includes testing, screening, vaccines, and exams, etc., menâs sexual health, pregnancy, relationships, sex, sexuality, sexual orientation, gender, STDs and womenâs health. All of this important information and services and President Trump is cutting the funding for it. He is trying to overturn the Supreme Court ruling in the Roe v. Wade case where it was decided that womenâs right to privacy and therefore abortion is protected under the 14th amendment as long as the abortion happens before the âfetus is viableâ meaning it can survive being born. It is a human right and I will fight to protect it. But you have a point he didnât say he was going to takeâaway all of our rightsâ but it starts small and as the saying goes âgive an inch theyâll take a mileâ.
âSo can you guys stop freaking out over EVERYTHING?â
We arenât freaking out about anything. We are legally voicing our objection to the wrongs committed against us as human beings. We are legally voicing our objection to the proposed laws and ideals that infringe on our human rights.
âAnd stop with the womenâs marches! What exactly do yaâll think thatâs going to do? Get Trump thrown out of office? Nope.â
The point of the womenâs march was not about President Trump. It was about equality for everyone and the opportunity for people who support different issues within the realm of equality and human rights to come out and support each other under the banner of Womenâs Rights. The march was about standing together and knowing that we are not alone. It was about supporting each other across the world as one people not as sub-people groups. Some people used it as a platform to tell/show the world that we will not allow anyone to oppress us again and to not even try it. Some people used to the platform to oppose President Trump, his beliefs, and plans. Some people used it as a platform to encourage people in countries across the world to fight for their freedom and equality. Some people used it as a platform for pro-choice. Some people used it as a platform for workplace equality and equal pay. It was NOT about Trump, me or you, it is about equality for everyone. Period.
âAll it does is prove his point about women and annoy all of the other billion of people who disagree with you!â
Iâm sorry how does 3.6-4.6 million people across the globe marching together for equal rights prove his point? Explain it to me. How do you hear about that many people across the world marching together unified in their stance of equality, and think something negative about that?
â(Oh, and btw after you guys did your little march thank you SO MUCH for leaving all of your signs strewn about the streets! Iâm sure that there were many female sanitation workers that had to stay out late last night cleaning up after you geniuses ^_^)â
Yes because you know other marches and protests for other issues NEVER leave signs on the road. And yeah there were people who had to pick the stuff up just like they would if there was a parade and they got paid for it. As long as the men and women doing the same job get the same pay, I donât see an issue.
âOh, and to be honest, I have no idea what the hell you guys are even marching for!â
Well that has been quite obvious. Maybe look up what you bash before you bash it next time.
âWomenâs right?â
Human Rights and Equality.
âGod gave us breasts and a uterus so that we could stay home and raise a family while the men worked to provide for us.â
Well if that was the only reason we exist then why are there women and men who physically canât have children? And donât give me the âatoning for their sinsâ crap if that was how it works a whole lot less people could have kids. And news flash! Women have taken an active part in building societies and settlements since the beginning of time. I come from a home where my biological father physically and emotionally abused me, my mom, and my three siblings. He couldnât keep a job and would quit whenever he felt like it, moving my entire family literally across the nation in his quest of finding a job he would keep. Six states, countless jobs and escalation of physical abuse happened before my mom finally filed for divorce. and he said to my 14yo sisters face that he didnât want anything to do with us kids. He paid parts of child support for about 2-3 years before he dropped off the map to avoid paying for almost 8 years. He only began paying after he was found and taken to court. So forgive me if I think that âmen=providerâ and âwomen=supporterâ is fucking bullshit. I was given breasts and a uterus so that I could have sex with the ability to have children if I so choose to. I was given a brain to use to its fullest. I want a career and I donât really want kids of my own, that may change as I get older but then it will still be MY choice. I will be a provider for myself and anyone else who I decide to bring under my care.
âBut now we have the right to vote, to work, run companies and even run for president!â
You say that women have the right to vote, work, run companies and run for public offices as if they were some kind of gifts that we were given. Women and men fought for those rights, human rights that should have been acknowledged in the first place.
âSo what more do you want?â
I want to walk alone at night in the city and not have to worry about cat calls and rude gestures from the men I walk by possible evolving into sexual assault because they âthinkâ I am encouraging them by ignoring them. I want the rape culture we have in our Great American Society to change so that we are teaching our boys and men that it is not ok to continue advancing when you have been ignored or told ânoâ or âgo to hellâ or âleave me aloneâ. Instead of teaching our girls to not dress âsexilyâ or ârevealingâ. I want my saying ânoâ to have more weight than me saying âI have a boyfriendâ when turning someone down. I want equal pay for equal work. I want equality. Simple.
âDid you know that in Pakistan and certain places of the Soviet Union women are still used as slaves!â
I did know that actually and that is another issue that the womenâs march addressed. We want to end inequality everywhere, that does not mean that we make things less equal here so that people donât feel so bad about the inequality elsewhere. If anything we should continue to push for full equality here in the United States of America so that we can be an example of an equality to the world.
âAnd that around the world there are women being sold as prostitutes?â
Once again, yes I did know that and yes it is horrible and should be abolished throughout the world. So why do you try and use the women who have it worse off than us, women in America, to put us down, to try and make us submit to men like they are forced to? I will never submit my will to anyone, it is my own as is my body and mind. I will fight for mine and every woman and manâs right to choose what they do with their own body and mind.
âBut âOh no a big bad man told is weâre not allowed to murder our unborn children now we must rebelâŠâ
What the? First why is a man trying to tell me what to do with my body? Second it isnât alive until it can survive on its own outside of the womenâs body, therefore I canât murder it. If we were going to rebel this would be a small point on the vast canvas of grievances.
âHereâs some advice: Either get over it, or get out of this country.â
Um no, we are in America I can say and believe anything I want to because that is my right, a protected right, as a human being. How about you accept that your opinion is just that an opinion not a fact or law.
âAnd to be clear, no, I donât think that Trump is going to be the greatest president there ever was,â
Well looky there we agree on something.
âand did he have to say those things about women? Thatâs debateable.â
Nope not debatable, no one âhas toâ say mean things to or about anyone ever. Period.
âBut I have faith in him to lead our country right because while nobody is perfect, itâs clear that the good he can do for us outweighs his bad tenfold.â
Youâre right no one is perfect and I hope with my whole heart that he will prove me wrong and does more good than bad for this country and the people living in it. I do not think that his âgoodâ plans outweigh the negatives he has said and plans to do, but I donât compare them as a balance but simply pros and cons.
âAnd that is all I have to say. And for all of you who disagree with this post feel free to hate me and insult me. I donât care because Iâm not going to take offenceâŠ. Thank you.â
I think I am also done. I am glad you wonât take offense to me disagreeing with you but please donât feel as if I am hating on you or your post, I simply have a very different opinion than you do.
Also, offense is spelt with an -s-.... Maybe while you are checking your facts, check your spelling too.
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