Long Winters When I Pretend To Fall S/D?

It’s a well-written apology, but not entirely convincing. The bean story itself had read (skimmed) to me as a dumb, strained attempt at humor by a pompous, unfunny person – but I see how it may have been triggering to others and I he seems to have addressed that angle thoroughly.

As for the old tweets – maybe because I just saw a few screenshots without the larger context, I definitely didn’t perceive the satire. They were pretty hardcore. It’s clear he at least on some level relished deploying those tropes for reasons beyond “taking the slurs of the oppressors and flipping them” (whatever that means). Like Brad said, just saying certain things reveals your character. He sort of dances around this (“the words themselves have power”) but his insistence on his “good intent” seems to fall short of total honesty.

(not that it matters to me what this guy says, I’ve never ever heard of him before now, but episodes like this are interesting.)

so did the kid not know how to use a can opener at age 9 or ... they didn't have cereal or frozen stuff ... this whole thing just seems stupid to begin with and the pile-on makes everyone look bad.

Dud

oh wait this is ilm

Also Dud

so did the kid not know how to use a can opener at age 9 or ... they didn't have cereal or frozen stuff

yes, this is the motivating premise of the entire story

Dud

middle class you say. pistachios you say.

i wonder what bean dad thinks about the charcuterie is a tool of the ruling class guy?

tool? as in ten thousand slices of prosciutto when all you need is a can opener?

probably the thread title should be edited at this point to reflect that dude will gain more ilx attention as "bean dad" than for his band that I'd never heard of before someone commented on a thinkpiece someone else had shared that linked to an old website that lauded his band

there are three threads with bean dad discussion, let's not rename all of them after a handful of now-deleted tweets

also, his band was great and they made two amazing albums and this whole thing is so dumb and doesn't change any of that a bit.

xp - wait really? three threads ???

https://imgur.com/gallery/Cyqqv

How lucky is Bean Dad, right?

— Catherynne M. Valente (@catvalente) January 9, 2021

*this past Tuesday*

"Please! Have some other vaguely well known indie musician be the brunt of everyone's ire."

"Be careful what you wish for."

so did the kid not know how to use a can opener at age 9 or ... they didn't have cereal or frozen stuff

yes, this is the motivating premise of the entire story

Yeah, in the original story, he also stressed her difficulties with spatial skills and process visualization, that the cupboards were bare, and that he insisted no one would eat a bite until she figured out the can opener on her own. The version in the apology is very different. I could see the original being humorous if it had been clearly intended as fiction.

apparently child protective services came to Roderick's house and interviewed his daughter, privately, for an hour:

https://reason.com/2021/02/16/bean-dad-child-services-john-roderick-can-opener/

did you say what you wanted said
and now you’re just putting the beans to dad

in hiiiiiindsight, you're gonna wish you hadn't tweeted

Reason is really something