September 2, 2022

Here are 7 TikToks I've chosen to launch you into the long weekend. Let me know what you like best

 1. Alice in Wonderland and autism acceptance.

2. The crocheted pregnant doll.

3. Interior design for the solo woman.

4. Abbey (from "Love on the Spectrum") felt the allure of the SpaghettiOs can, but the actual SpaghettiOs are a different matter.

5. Now, what to wear to the beach?

6. Do celebrities like it when you impersonate them while standing right beside them?

7. Don't watch this one unless you have breasts and they are bothering you. Note: It's an ad! Some people love it. I'm seeing commenters who say it's the best ad they've ever seen.

15 comments:

gilbar said...

WHY did the pregnant doll look like a Woman? THIS IS TRANSPHOBIA!!!!

Lash LaRue said...

#6. Whether they like it or not, it wins.

Gusty Winds said...

The Alice in Wonderland Autism video is the best one I've seen here ever. Thank you Althouse.

The girl playing Alice should be cannonized. Just pure. Even if it's paid acting, you gotta have a good heart. She treated him how he wanted to be treated. He feels like he's talking to a friend. Other than online...he probably doesn't have many.

If someone on the autism spectrum is a part of your life, you can see that man-boy is real. A loving human being with no malice inside him. Generation X autistic children are now adults, or entering adulthood.





Inga said...

#2-the pregnant doll. I made crocheted dolls and doll clothes for my granddaughters and yes they aren’t easy to make and take a lot of time. No pregnant dolls, but the idea of a pregnant doll that gives birth is charming. I hope the poor mama doll didn’t have the baby hats and blankets shoved up into her pregnant belly too. Two babies is enough to have up there.

Saint Croix said...

Don't watch this one unless you have breasts and they are bothering you. Note: It's an ad! Some people love it.

ha ha

I had an ex-girlfriend one time who asked me if she should have a breast reduction. I about lost a spleen explaining to her that her breasts were amazing. Why would you fucking reduce them? Oh my God. And so on and so forth.

I don't know if it's analogous to some anti-beauty fanatic slicing up a Monet but that's pretty much how I felt about it.

I obviously do not have property rights in her breasts but apparently I have strong free speech rights or some damn thing.

Anyway, she asked.

(Now we need a "Some People Love It" tag).

Saint Croix said...

ha ha ha

this is why we need men involved in reproduction

just sayin'

Lilly, a dog said...

#1 was my favorite. I felt like I was watching Dan Schneider casting a new Nickelodeon show and a niche porn parody at the same time.

Saint Croix said...

that's the meanest ob-gyn ever

wash your hands or something

she squeezes her fucking thighs and the head pops out

yank, yank, yank the umbilical cord

and then jams her finger all the way in

I wanted to sue the hospital

Freeman Hunt said...

For many years I've thought that it would be hilarious to get a gigantic print of Waterhouse's Cleopatra and hang it high with the top hanging a bit away from the wall to make it seem to lean out oppressively over the room. And then, of course, I would not comment on it, as though it were normal, when people came over.

That would be solo decor though. I don't think my family would stand for living in a joke, no matter how funny I thought it was.

The Waterhouse

Susan in Seattle said...

No. 6 was my favorite but I liked elements of some of the other ones. 'Alice' interacted with the birthday man with such kindness, I really liked the portrait of QEII in the single woman's home, and the crochet work of the doll giving birth is amazing.

Stephanie A. Richer said...

The pregnant doll is amazing! The level of skill needed to make it is to be applauded.

And anything with Jeff Goldblum makes my morning happier.

Leslie Graves said...

It bugs me that the mother of Spaghetti-Os girl filmed that.

Jupiter said...

Are they really that big a problem?

mikee said...

The young woman should try SpaghettiOs with meatballs. Two different yet equally horrible things to bewail within the can.

Ann Althouse said...

“ It bugs me that the mother of Spaghetti-Os girl filmed that.”

Abbey is already a celebrity with lots of fans from the Netflix show Love on the Spectrum. It’s part of a big effort at embracing people with autism.

Abbey is 23. Read about her and the show here https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/love-on-the-spectrum-us-couples-together-where-are-they-now-abbey-dani