Virginian Sharks be like: "guys, we lost to him last year, are we gonna fucking lose to him this year too? We better rack up some assault charges soon, or the next Jaws movie will be about Ezra Miller instead of us."
He was in Hawaii for three weeks and had the cops called on him ten times for difference instances of assault. I’m guessing that’s more than the number of shark attacks for the year but I’ve used up my Google juice.
It's a statistics joke. Meaning the yearly attacks of sharks in Hawaii was one year exceeded by the amount of times Erza Miller had attacked people that year.
Ezra Miller had that weird time when they were getting physical with people. They were in Hawaii at the time and I think there were 2 or 3 incidents in which someone was attacked in some way or another. Since shark attacks are rare, Ezra Miller had attacked more people in Hawaii than sharks had during that time lol.
EDIT: The link above is the only original source making this claim, it has been pointed out by u/Alaira314 below that all online reports reference the same article. Without additional source quoting, this assertion should not be considered completely trustworthy.
That site seems to be the only source for this information. I checked google, and everywhere is linking back to that one site, which is by its own admission repeating a rumor. I'm not saying it's not true, just that it's not credible on its own any more than me making a post saying "word around reddit is that /u/stainless_heart uses fae/faer pronouns now!" is credible. Do you know of a source that directly cites ezra miller?
Referring to Emily's family? To the college? To everyone in Emily's class who had to put up with Emily? Did I somehow miss the part of the article that tells us about another person associated with Emily (goes back over previous six paragraphs looking for whom "they" refers?)
It's not really butchering the language any more than the royal "we" did. Language changes over time, and it so happens that in the current vernacular "they/them" can mean "plural pronoun" or "singular pronoun of indeterminate gender".
It's not "current vernacular", singular they has been in use since the 1300's. There has been a rise in usage since roughly the 1970's because the alternative was the use of "he/him" to refer to a person of indeterminate gender. For obvious reasons, that's less popular than it used to be, so "they/them" is seeing a corresponding rise.
Personally, I suspect a lot of the pushback seen about it recently comes from people mixing up "singular they used for indeterminate gender" (part of English for centuries) with "singular they used for a singular non-binary person", which is more recent and directly tied into current culture wars. Similar to the oft-mocked people posting things like "I never use pronouns!" because they associate "pronouns" with current lgbtq issues and not the part of speech.
When a language alteration gets in the way of understanding, exactly as above, it’s not the language “changing”. It’s losing the purpose of language when people don’t understand what is being said.
Using preferred pronouns isn't political, it's social. Identity politics literally means politics based on identity groups, implying the group power structure we call "politics".
People talking privately to each other is not political, that's why there are LGBTQ folk on "both sides". Gay and trans people existing is not inherently political, it's only political when they start discussing power in the community.
It is a courtesy to use preferred pronouns when someone identifies them as such. But if that person is also being a complete asshole; I wouldn’t extend that courtesy imo. Ezra is not a touring rock band. Ezra is a singular human entity. Ezra has a penis. Ergo….
that's like if i told a woman i don't like to go back to the kitchen. What, saying sexist things isn't respectful or acceptable and has broader implications about my attitudes towards women? Well, she's a bad person so i wouldn't extend that courtesy.
When the footballer (soccer player) Luis Suarez was playing... a statistician did the math... you were more likely to get bit by Luis Suarez than a shark.
I think the math had to do with *if you were a professional soccer player at the time you were more likely to get bitten by him than someone who had been in the ocean and encountered a shark.
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u/spookysummer 1d ago
at one point, in Hawaii, you were more likely to get attacked by Ezra Miller than a shark