![]() ![]() I decided to pursue a vocation of teacher of English as a foreign language, and went to the Greek island of Crete to get certified as such, as one does. I quickly realized this was not sustainable. She frequently writes for Al Jazeera, Middle East Eye, and Jacobin, and is also the author of The Imperial Messenger: Thomas Friedman at Work.īelén Fernández: I was briefly employed in Austin in an office there, post-graduation. She is a contributing editor at Jacobin and graduated from Columbia with a BA in political science. ![]() In just a few short years of publishing her observations on world politics and writing from places as varied as Lebanon, Italy, Uzbekistan, Syria, Mexico, Turkey, Honduras, and Iran, Belén Fernández has established herself as a one of the most trenchant observers of America’s interventions around the world. From trekking-through Europe, the Middle East, Morocco, and Latin America-to packing avocados in southern Spain, to close encounters with a variety of unpredictable men, to witnessing the violent aftermath of the 2009 coup in Honduras, the international travel allowed her by an American passport has, ironically, given her a direct view of the devastating consequences of US machinations worldwide. and Texas, and then attending Columbia University in New York, Belén Fernández ended up in a state of self-imposed exile from the United States. It is the official September pick of The Nervous Breakdown Book Club.Īfter growing up in Washington, D.C. Her new book, Exile: Rejecting America and Finding the World, is available from OR Books. Notable ExamplesĪdditional examples are often posted on the microblogging site Tumblr under the tag "i watch it for the plot" and through the image sharing website FunnyJunk by searching for "i watch it for the plot".Belén Fernández is the guest. On March 9th, 2013, a Facebook page titled “I Watch it for the Plot” was launched, which accumulated upwards of 1,800 likes in the first three months. ![]() On the same day, the /r/watchitfortheplot subreddit was launched to showcase animated GIFs, clips and images of female characters from various television shows. ![]() In the following six months, the post garnered more than 24,000 up votes and 9,600 Facebook shares. On December 31st, 2012, 9gag user imsomeoneelse posted a screen capture featuring several female characters from the Nickelodeon sitcom Victorious performing a dance in Santa costumes with the caption "I watch it for the plot" (shown below). Within two years, the video gained over 60,000 views and 330 comments. On September 5th, YouTuber ObnoxiousDoucheAlt uploaded a video titled “We’re Watching This For the Plot,” featuring an edited clip of characters from the children’s animated television show Ed, Edd n Eddy watching the adult anime Sekirei (shown below). On August 25th, Urban Dictionary user imtrollingumad submitted an entry for the word “plot,” which referred to its association with the rear end of My Little Pony characters. In the animated series My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, the word "plot" became synonymous with a pony's posterior due to a viral image (shown below) initially posted to the Smack Jeeves Forums on January 20th, 2011 by user tezzle. The phrase subsequently became a widely used trope in television and film. The magazine published articles and editorials alongside the pictorial spreads, giving justification for purchasing the magazine for reasons other than wanting to look at nude photos. “I Read It For The Articles” is an expression that originated in the 1960s and 1970s as a common justification for reading Playboy magazine, a men’s interest magazine known for containing nude photographs of pin-up models. ![]()
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