birdiethebibliophile:

Griffin’s storytelling is not only vivid, it’s the perfect kind of vivid for a solely audio medium. Consider “and then we pan up” from the Balance arc; that’s the prototypical version of what I’m thinking of. It’s a beautiful, in-your-face kind of verbal presentation that hits you like a punch, it’s so clear. And then in the Amnesty arc, every flashback, every description of what the audience sees but the camera doesn’t, every detail that gives you exactly what you need to hear and nothing more… It’s like the only thing I can see is what his words describe. I know everyone (including the boys) talks about Griffin “painting them word pictures,” but that’s really what it’s like. He’s learned how to blend the colors, trace a line so it stands out, depict emotion with a deft touch. He brought his all to Amnesty in terms of storytelling just like he did to Balance, even though it was so much shorter, and honestly? I couldn’t be happier.

So they held a feminism talk for my university group (of mainly science majors) …

The lecturer: “Research has proven that seeing women only performing a limited number of roles in the media prevents young girls from exploring all career options. My PhD explores how”

Some white male idiot: “Ughhh… have you considered that maybe the ‘general public’ are bad at making decisions???? I cErtainly didn’t choose an engineering degree because I saw a particular mAn do it… all women are just idiots and your PhD is wrong blah blah blah…”

(At this point my eyes cannot physically role any further back, and several women have their hands angrily in the air)

The lecturer, a legend: “engineering huh? Tell me, did you ever have a female math teacher?”

The idiot: “Ummmmm…. well no.”

😑😑😑😑