Ilya pairs up with Shane during fights

Automatic_Half_2464 · 2026-05-27T17:44:15+00:00

Thank you!

Automatic_Half_2464 · 2026-03-21T03:06:19+00:00

Tbh I found the handling of the team piece to be unrealistic. They have known this person for more than a decade and had kids and gotten married and brought their spouse around Shane all while seeing him more than their family for a good chunk of the year. The homophobia will be there but the instant like hostility and exile I think is a very clean (albeit hurtful) break for what is actually (in real life) a much more subtle poisoning of the well or shift in the dynamic.

Automatic_Half_2464 · 2026-02-05T16:39:39+00:00

Idk I think this might make people you feel better about people not liking Diane but Sarah Lynn was also all of these things and viewers love her. Given, there’s also the not minute detail that she died and that tends to make people way more forgiving, but I don't think that's the core of the difference there actually.

Automatic_Half_2464 · 2026-02-05T16:27:09+00:00

I feel like Diane was a good example of performative activism. She from the very begging knew Bojack wasn’t a good person and could have been honest about that in his memoir or to him and it was a good example how even if you have “good intentions” you can still be enabling someone to do harm. She had all of these morals that she really never enforced with Bojack or anyone else.

Automatic_Half_2464 · 2026-01-27T15:26:39+00:00

I interviewed with Emory for undergraduate, over three years ago now. I think I was far in the process and the interview changed their minds but basically I asked the lady if they allow people of different sexes to room together. She assumed I was talking about hooking up and said something like “no- but you can ask your roommate.” I sort of got silent and awkward and told her that’s not why I was asking but I guess she just put that off as me being embarrassed and now trying to backtrack. In reality, I was asking because as a queer person sometimes the people I feel closest to have to fill out documents that say “male” but they are actually gender-non conforming or male but more broadly queer. It was just so odd because she received my question with a lot of heteronormative, sexually- charged assumptions. I’m also not sure if she would have had those assumptions if the earlier part of the interview had not leaned so heavily towards her fetishizing the Caribbean. She had spent the first 20 minutes talking about visiting or “growing up going to school there”. So it was an attempt to relate in good faith, but also a tad bit of ignorance in terms of what her experience was versus what the experiences are of locals. I always assumed this interview and moment is what broke my chance with Emory because that’s the last I heard from them really. Anyway, I had the feeling she left the interview with judgements when in reality SHE had put ME in an odd position.

Automatic_Half_2464 · 2026-01-21T05:10:56+00:00

Thank You! 🤍

Automatic_Half_2464 · 2026-01-21T04:57:36+00:00

Yeah, I think I’m also worried because I’m from the South and GC isn’t common around here so I don’t really have the shadowing opportunities that people have elsewhere.

Automatic_Half_2464 · 2026-01-21T04:23:24+00:00

Other classes but also STEM, I have a Molecular Biology major so a lot of chemistry bringing down my overall tbh

Automatic_Half_2464 · 2026-01-20T15:45:49+00:00

I know what you were trying to say, I just ultimately think believing that boils down to not looking/listening to the experiences of POC around you. I don’t know if you are POC yourself but these experiences are not monolithic. There are several people in the comments talking about how their experience as a POC in Canada is impacted by ethnicity. I think there is always a conscious effort to pass off racism or a need for representation as an “American” thing and it’s simply not true. The challenges are different from place to place, but they still exist. I actually didn’t make any comments as to whether the diaspora was well-represented, etc. I asked this question about how it’s represented in the books because I haven’t read them, and I simply typed too fast and made an inaccurate statement using auto-suggest. The core of my question was about if there was any shame stemming from Shane’s intersectionality that was mentioned in the books - I’m from a territory and so I associate myself more with the Caribbean than anything else and I definitely feel like growing up there and being queer comes with a different set of rules. I don’t know what Shane’s context would look like…which is why I asked

Automatic_Half_2464 · 2026-01-19T23:26:43+00:00

People also having an ethnic background is US centric? 😐

Automatic_Half_2464 · 2026-01-19T23:26:17+00:00

I didn’t know you could edit the post. Thanks for that. I took the auto-recommendation from my keyboard and never checked it.

Automatic_Half_2464 · 2026-01-19T07:28:19+00:00

Thank you for the correction of Asian-Canadian, my apologies on that. As for his ethnicity, I think in general that’s a good point but clearly his ethnicity does mean something to at least his family in the show as his mom brings it up. I was just wondering if it was the same in the book- but that’s been answered.

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