For context: In that production of King Lear by the Royal Shakespeare Company, Sir Ian McKellen, playing the titular character in a scene where Lear has essentially gone round the bend, strips completely naked right there on stage. New York critic Michael Portantiere, noted in his review, “Special note for those who care about such things: In a brief nude scene, McKellen amply demonstrates the truth of Lear’s statement that he is ‘every inch a king’.”
The above scene is amazing but I also feel we need to take a moment to appreciate the fact that a respected theatre critic took time to mention in their review of this production of King Lear that Ian McKellen has a truly impressive penis
Like everything good in my life, I thought my time as The Bat was temporary. But it’s real now. And I’m not in your shadow anymore. I’m it. I am Batwoman.
WLWMEME: 4/9 tv characters ♡ ryan wilder (batwoman)
Like everything good in my life, I thought my time with the bat was temporary, but it’s for real now, and I’m not in your shadow anymore. I’m it. I am Batwoman.
You guys are all aware that they trained people for those civil rights protests, right? That the people doing sit ins had to be trained to keep their cool as white people screamed invectives and pouring drinks on them? It was a very organized operation.
One of the greatest lies that recent American history has perpetuated is the idea that Rosa Parks was “just a tired Black woman who wanted to sit down on the bus” and not a motivated activist who trained with other civil rights luminaries and very intentionally got on that bus specifically to get arrested about it.
Can you think of a reason why they might not want you to know that the people staging sit-ins and getting arrested for sitting on the bus were trained and organized?
Panels from the autobiographical graphic novel March: Book One (2013)
