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"Call her shithead.
"I'm not calling her shithead".
"You shouldn't have called her shithead".
I called her shithead, mental case, and gaylord, and she responded by calling me gaylord, shithead, and mental case.
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Fucking selfish shithead!" Even her tirade, in context, feels fiercely tender.
In 2012, media critic Anita Sarkeesian created a web video series to point out some of the sexist tropes repeated again and again in video games, only to encounter a backlash from gamers that led to some shitheads emailing her images of her getting raped by game characters, among other misogynist BS.
The modern day equivalent of her journey consists of shitheads with Skrillex haircuts shlepping out to the godless wasteland that is the Coachella valley and spending $400 for the privilege of getting dehydrated on $12 beers, being aggressively marketed to by tech companies, and listening to the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
But Rait-Kovaleva's translation smoothed over Caulfield's rougher language, excising obscenities from the Russian text; the scholar Aleksandra Borisenko writes that Rait-Kovaleva resisted the changes, imploring her editor to leave in just one govnyuk, or "shithead," but to no avail.
She told us about her estranged family who are still believers, called Travesser a "shithead" a bunch of times, and claimed that the photo we posted of him with his "followers" was actually a shot of the seven "virgins" who sleep with him in the nude.
Seeing how hard she made her character, Martha, work to try and bond with a guy who was a real shithead gave the play its drive and emotional core.
Even shithead.
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