Careercow Reuben Baron - Smart Bisexual Stuttering Clever-man

[Meowthkip]

He would probably still go around groping Connie Willis's tits and being a complete asshole in general.

So pretty much the same then?

 

[blackie toy]

Strange, my dreams usually involve spiders, clowns and zombies. Think that's healthier than wishing a real person would come out as...whatever the fuck Reuben said.

I pretty much dream about things that would affect my life.

Reuben's dream amounts to something mildly newsworthy happening to someone else. I mean... who the hell cares? It's something to reblog, I guess?

 

[Positron]

At least it was not a dream where he becomes a journalist.

 

[introman]

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[XYZpdq]

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lol so he IS looking to mingle

 

[Positron]

My self-summary
Geeky queer Jewish Aspie film student and writer looking for a relationship.

So, is he a Journalism student, a Film student, or a gender-studies student?

I spend a lot of time thinking about
filmmaking, politics, stupid internet drama I probably shouldn't be thinking about

Get off the internet already.

The most private thing I’m willing to admit
Been questioning about gender stuffs lately. Leaning towards agender but maybe demiboy-ish?

I said get off the internet already!

I guess I could also mention that I sort of believe in otherkin? I mean, a lot of otherkin on tumblr are idiots, but there's a few cool ones and I don't think the concept's inherently ridiculous any moreso than other spiritual beliefs.

"Otherkin" is a sexual fetish, not a spiritual belief.

 

[Meowthkip]

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I like how Reuben has three orientations. He couldn't pick one.

 

[Ronald Gaygun]

Ahmed Angel really let himself go...

 

[Kršćanin Čendlervic]

So, is he a Journalism student, a Film student, or a gender-studies student?

He's someone who won't be employed after graduating.

 

[millais]

channeling his inner neanderthal with a primal hunt for game

 

[Meowthkip]

channeling his inner neanderthal with a primal hunt for game

Oh God, Reuben, what are you planning to do with that baby bunny?

 

[namazuros]

. Leaning towards agender but maybe demiboy-ish?

I love how he puts this as though its a setting to be toggled around with.

 

[AnOminous]

I love how he puts this as though its a setting to be toggled around with.

One thing these people don't understand is that anti-discrimination protection is almost exclusively reserved for things that aren't in the person's control. If it is, then it's okay to discriminate, so goes the law in many cases. So there have been a lot of hard-fought victories over decades to get these protections, which these nimrods now want to throw out the window on a whim, while changing their fake gender identity more often than their

 

[Sammy]

I know this is slightly off topic, but I watched the Johnny Depp Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas film last night, because Netflix and nothing better to do and remembering Reuben's massive mancrush for Hunter S. Thompson. What exactly is it that Ruben sees in this guy? Unless this film is a poor representation of Hunter's life work, it seems just like he went around doing inhuman amounts of drugs and abusing what little authority and charm he had when he partied too hard. Is that what "Gonzo Journalism" was? Just getting out of your skull on ether and wandering around with a violent thug lawyer and fucking with people? I can see why Reuben liked the guy if I'm interpreting this correctly. Watching the film kinda reinforced for me what a tool Reuben is, trying to pass off his shitty attempt at coercing a confession out of a mentally abnormal individual under the guise of a "recognized form of alternative investigation" which in practice seemed to simply be being an asshole on a lot of drugs.

I wonder what Hunter S. Thompson would write if he was tasked today with reporting on GamerGate.

 

[TheProdigalStunna]

Found this playa up on ok-cupid. No gamergaters allowed! https://archive.today/8PdKQ

Once again, this man dropped the perfect chance for Jace to gonzo journalize him some dick.

"being honest with people (I kind of suck at lying)"

"stupid internet drama I probably shouldn't be thinking about"

believe me, we can tell.

 

[iceman2kuk]

I know this is slightly off topic, but I watched the Johnny Depp Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas film last night, because Netflix and nothing better to do and remembering Reuben's massive mancrush for Hunter S. Thompson. What exactly is it that Ruben sees in this guy?

I'd be surprised if Ruben has read anything by Thompson. He's just sort of become the go to influence shout out for wannabe edgy Journalists.

 

[AnOminous]

Is that what "Gonzo Journalism" was? Just getting out of your skull on ether and wandering around with a violent thug lawyer and fucking with people?

No, that's a stupid person's idea of what Gonzo was, but to some extent, the image HST deliberately created. At his best, HST was a razor sharp political analyst (flip to a random page in either The Great Shark Hunt or Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 and you will likely see something that could come out of today's headlines). He also did like wandering around fucked up out of his skull fucking with people. Sometimes he would do both at the same time.

I really don't like that movie, because while it slavishly tracks the actual happenings of the novel, and has some excellent visuals, as Gilliam always does, it doesn't really get the radical subjectivity of it. It's all outside looking in. The outside is good. Johnny Depp's HST has his mannerisms and even face down pat. But the movie is hollow and all exteriors, almost from being too respectful of its source.

As good as Fear and Loathing is, though, it is almost a victim of its own success. Absolute atrocities have been committed in the name of Gonzo journalism by bad imitators of HST, many of whom have never read anything but this one book, which they didn't understand anyway. Most of these people need to be slapped until they piss themselves, because they aren't and never will be HST.

Something that captures Gonzo better (and is probably the first work recognized as such) is "The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved," also illustrated by Ralph Steadman. It's very similar in general tone, but tighter and more compact, and to a greater extent acknowledges what it's doing. I.e., it explicitly breaks with journalistic tradition.

By the time of F&L, Hunter was already following a journalistic tradition, albeit one largely of his own creation. To an extent, he ultimately became a victim of the character he created.

But tl;dr, no, the movie isn't a good place to "get" HST's writings, although it is a reasonably good and amusing introduction to the persona (as a somewhat better Where the Buffalo Roam). And Reuben Baron is no HST. What he is is a stuttering fucking retard who needs to STFU.

 

[Loke]

Wtf is a demiboy? I thought that was some idiocy that Vade created, and I chalked it up to their trans-weirdness. I'm so confused, bi isn't any more complex than being attracted to both men and women. That doesn't have anything to do with one's personal gender, just sexual attraction, and also doesn't guarantee one would be fine with dating/sleeping with a trans person. Is Reuben really bi, or is this just his particular brand of snowflake syndrome manifesting? I only ask this because I don't feel like digging through his various web-personalities, and the only way to confirm is to note who he's dated in the past.

 

[AnOminous]

Wtf is a demiboy?

A word used by tumblr morons to mean "look at meeeeeee." If demisexual means sometimes interested in sex and sometimes not (as if that does not describe everyone), then I'd guess demiboy is analogous.

As for me, though, I don't care what these bullshit terms mean any more. They now all mean "I am an idiot, stomp on my face" to me.

 

[blackie toy]

Favorite books, movies, shows, music and food
. . . .
Movies: Pan's Labyrinth, Ran, Spirited Away, Casablanca, Lawrence of Arabia, Pulp Fiction, Lord of the Rings (all 3), Birdman, Wall-E, The Incredibles, The Shawshank Redemption, Tokyo Godfathers, Harold and Maude

This is a film student, ladies and gentlemen. What the actual fuck? It's like everything he's interested in is for the general viewing public. Nothing unusual, nothing French, nothing experimental, nothing structural. Absolutely sickening.

Also, take note of his profile name. SexyJewishWizard. SJW.