The community is what gives Reddit its value, and it should be taken into account. Reddit has decided to put business interests ahead of community interests, and has been belligerent, dismissive, and tried to gaslight the community in the process. If this is the direction Reddit is going, I want no part of this. The fact that Reddit decided to implement these changes in the first place, without thinking of how it would negatively affect these communities, which provide a lot of value to Reddit, is even more worrying. This comment has been edited, and the account purged, in protest to Reddit's API policy changes, and the awful response from Reddit management to valid concerns from the communities of developers, people with disabilities, and moderators. In the dark 1999 comedy Election, the overachieving student Tracy Flickplayed by an up-and-coming Reese Witherspoondreams of political domination, starting with the race for class president. Thankfully this remains a hypothetical and we'll never be able to determine if it has any bearing on real life. I definitely don't think we're supposed to believe Tracey is good… just clearly the better candidate. Question: Question 4 2 pts Instead of boring you with the details of the new and innovative accomplishments that I intend to achieve while I have the honor and privilege of serving as your class president, let me just say that when you vote for me, you wont just be voting for Tracy Flick. A healthy skepticism of people like Tracey is warranted, but the scale of the way we treat the same traits in men and women is totally out of whack. But I think the way that Tracey's ambition is treated as inherently suspicious even though she channels it in mostly positive ways, while the football player guy is treated as an obvious leader even though he is a selfish moron (I'd forgotten he was also petty and vindictive), still comes through. I definitely feel like we are supposed to share the teacher's suspicion of Tracey just as we should be suspicious of all ambitious people. Crooked systems seems to be part of the theme of the movie. Tracy Flick, the ambitious young protagonist who campaigned for high school president in Tom Perrottas 1998 novel 'Election' (memorably played by Reese Witherspoon in the film version) is back in. The fact that Jim's sister did doesn't necessarily mean the same punishment awaited her. It's not delved into in the movie, but I don't think she would have gotten expelled for the poster thing. The ultimate Tracy, of course, was Hillary Clinton.I don't feel like we can count that first thing against her. This year's is the up and-coming Republican representative Elise Stefanik. If you want to say that a female politician is ruthlessly ambitious, you call her a Tracy Flick. Tracy Flick, however, still has name recognition. Sammy Glick was shorthand for “backstabbing Jewish Hollywood operator, until the anti-Semitism of the stereotype made it unacceptable. Roger Ebert compared Tracy to Sammy Glick, the protagonist of Budd Schulberg's 1941 novel, What Makes Sammy Run?, and the Broadway musical of the same name. Tracy Flick was the overachieving, aspiring student-body president in the original Election story, however, things havent worked out quite like she hoped when she was a teenager. “Machiavelli-minded” and “pitiless, Manohla Dargis wrote in LA Weekly. ambitious to the point of dementia,” Wesley Morris wrote in the San Francisco Examiner. “A buzzing flytrap of determined overachievement. But the movie had the magnificently chipper Reese Witherspoon as Tracy Flick, a relentless candidate for student-body president who was both drill sergeant and object of sexual desire. “They don't know what to do with it.) Both works used a gladiatorial high-school election to send up the national kind. she throws her entire self into running for class president. (“People don't know whether it's YA or adult,” his agent had told him. Tracy Flick, the irritating overachiever indelibly played by a breakout Reese Witherspoon, is a Republican. Election the satirical novel had occasioned less fuss when it came out the year before indeed, its then-unknown author, Tom Perrotta, had barely managed to get it published. By Judith ShulevitzĮlection, the satirical movie directed by Alexander Payne, met with critical euphoria when it opened in 1999. Tracy Flick for Principal The Atlantic | June 2022 Tom Perrotta's '90s antihero returns.
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