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Ginger bashing blahs

There’s always some reason humanity is a bummer.  This time, it’s because I’m a redhead. I’ve talked before about the heckling I used to get from kids at school - as well as from perfect strangers - because of my red hair.  That doesn't happen, now that I'm a middle aged woman. Thank goodness. But media still happens. A few years ago I started keeping a tally of how often the bad guy or gal in books and movies have red hair. Summary? Rates are way higher than the non-fiction ginger per capita numbers. Then I started noticing all the ginger bashing in comedy.  Of course, there's South Park ’s Kick a Ginger Day . That's not news. Amy Schumer and her line about reasons we need Plan B, like for cases of “rape or incest or with a redhead.”   Yamaneika Saunders on Jimmy Fallon's The Tonight Show talking about how this was the first time a black woman had ever wanted to marry a “ firecrotch .” (That term was new to me, actually.) Yes it

Accidental AI SciFi Gertrude Stein

Can't stop loving this! I tried text to speech on a section I was writing, and got SciFi Beckett: Hey Yellowbird yelled burn burn.  Cello stopped, hands on cold metal buckle.  Grab the lines, you idiot! Bon ben burn hollered. Cello did it.  He made it over to the cupboard. It took him less than a second to get there.  Push wish wish wish WHOOOSH. G forces are no joke. He pried open the cupboard,  and found a small cylinder inside. This it? He asked. Don’t know! Yelled castor. Does it look like it’s holding gas?  Experimentally cello Shockett shook it shook it. It was happy. There was a nozzle. Got the lights? He yelled back. Aargh! Yelled caster.  Blanca had a flint in her pocket. Blanca always had a flint in her pocket. She was right next to the cupboard, and cello took the flint out of her pocket.  He didn’t know how to use it.  Oh for dust sake exclaimed Blanca. She leaned over, And struck a spark while cello let out of tiny gasp of gas ounce there was fl

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