So you’re saying she isn’t doing that?
I get it now.
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Fair enough. I think we can all cite the appropriate XKCD.
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This fucking thread, man.
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Mine are busted and rolling all over the floor like the worst Judgey Judgey Hippos game ever.
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In media? Ugly is used as a stand in, as a signifier of evil, much as “black” is used as a signifier of criminality. It’s so common that to go against it is a plot twist, such as the Hunchback of Notre Dame or a Danny Trejo character being good people.
Y’know, I could have sworn the actual topic is Conway threatening a reporter; not how she looks, or whether it’s ‘okay’ for Xeni to post an unflattering image of Conway, because that somehow puts her ‘on the same level’ as the people caging immigrant kids, targeting LGBTQ+ communities, stripping away voting rights, rigging elections and pilfering every single taxpayer dime they can get their greedy hands on.
Two wrongs don’t make anything ‘right,’ but it’s like someone in the ER whining about mere surface scrapes and scratches when the person sitting next to them is bleeding out from multiple gunshot wounds.
Yeah, Xeni could have used a different image, but I would still see a monster… even if Kelly Ann had been ‘shooped to look like freakin’ Marilyn Monroe.
Ugly goes all the way down to the soul.
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Political cartoonists have been grotesquely caricaturing politicians for centuries. How is this any different? Because it’s a photograph?
I am not bothered by it. I would be more bothered if it were more realistic, like a deepfake.
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I hear that, it’s almost like people would rather inanely discuss the illustration of the concept in question than the actual content.
Maybe we can move on to discuss why that might be?
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Because talking about how “we’re just as bad as our enemies” not only allows the ‘superior woke’ folks to virtue signal, it redirects the the conversation away from the actual unpleasant topic at hand.
Jinx, now I owe you a coke.
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Ohmygod, how dare you say all women are evil!!!11!!1eleventyone!!11!
Who cares? eyeroll.gif, amirite?
/s
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Me too. After all, I’m defending… a bad, completely unrealistic photoshop of her, that has fuck all to do with anyone who isn’t her. That makes me just as bad as someone who takes children away from their parents forever and locks them in cages.
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My daughter’s favorite role she’s played
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Wait, are you now saying you’re more anti-racist than Danny Trejo in the same way you’re arguing as someone more pro-feminist than Xeni? Or are you just more pro-Danny-Trejo than Danny Trejo?
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Wow, this thread. I looked at the picture and thought, “whoa, that’s a heavy filter.” I didn’t think anything about what Kellyanne Conway actually looks like. Because it was as obvious as a straight-up hand-drawn caricature would have been. It’s not some subtle manipulation to make her look believably different from her normal appearance. It’s a statement. On a blog. So much energy wasted on so little.
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Oh but how could we possibly derail any discussion of her disgusting behavior if we don’t pretend to give a shit about feminism when it comes to an unflattering caricature of a reprehensible amoral shitweasle like Kellyanne Conway!? Priorities…
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They didn’t air-brush out her wrinkles on this close-up.
Obviously they are misogynistic self-hating anti-feminists. /s
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@Melz2 Do you have this woman’s contact info? Asking for a (cough) friend. /Hs 
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But, like, small groups. Maybe 2 or so. Not thousands. Wicked witches have standards.
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I hereby apologize, and chastise myself, for drawing cartoon-villainesque facial hair on the administrative figures (even the males) depicted on the “Rules of Behavior” booklet from high school.
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