I don’t know, catsix. Why don’t you and I put on a couple of costumes, and hit the Strip District and the Southside and protect drunk, horny men from themselves? After all, the poor dears can’t use their own judgement. Guinastasia, you want the extras?
Sheesh!!! Thirty years of feminism and we still have individuals out there who apparently think women are incapable of taking responsibility for themselves, and what makes matters worse, some of the people who think this are women! So the poor little thing is afraid of big, scary New York City and decides to project her fears on other people. I guess I’m nowhere near as screwed up as I thought.
New York Dopers, please don’t send this one back to us.
CJ
Luckily, I have never ran into Terrifica during my hunt for drunken women in the NYC bar scene. Although her powers would be useless against the hypnotic trance I cast on these unsuspecting drunken women. MUUHAHAHAHAHA!
That girl needs a drink and a lay. Any you wonder why her boyfriend broke up with her? She’d be in a padded room if this wasn’t NY where the crazy people walk, and some live on, the streets.
If this is a marketing stunt ABC News would loose a lot of credability. If this was in the entertainment section I could see the joke aspect.
Fantastico does seem a little far fetched but I don’t recall them saying where his name came from. Did she name him that or is he messing with her head and self proclaiming him Fantastico. Kind of like Michael Jackson proclaiming himself King of Pop.
As a male who happens not to prey on drunken women (hell, I’ve yet to see my wife drunk in the two and a half years we’ve known each other), I take serious offence to Terrifica’s attitude. Moreover, I have known a lot of women who were not “weak…, easily manipulated, and need to be protected from themselves.” I would suggest to this woman that most people who wind up drunk in bars late at night, looking to get laid are doing so of their own free will.
I also bristle at the notion that “people are happiest when they’re alone and living their solitary lives.” I, for one, am a social being, in spite of my general dislike for most people. And I am happier in a relationship than out of one.
Dammit, I hate when people generalize. Especially when it comes to matters of the heart.
Actually, I think the name Fantastico comes from the accident he had where he fell into a vat of industrial-strength Fantastick Laundry Detergent – it’s also the source of his villainous powers.
““To feel like you have to go to a bar, to put yourself out there, feeling like you have worth only when you’re married, engaged, or have a boyfriend, that’s weakness,” Terrifica says. “People are happiest when they’re alone and living their solitary lives.””
This whole thing seems to born of good intentions, but her whole “women need to be protected from themselves” thing is rather offensive.
And yeah, she doesn’t represent us female yinzers. I see “computer programmer,” and hope to God she didn’t come from Carnegie Mellon, although I wouldn’t be surprised if she did.
Wrong Girl, what’s a yinzer? Carnegie Mellon, that’s a school or town in Pitt? As in The Mellon Arena?
Terrifica must her hands full on Thanksgiving Eve and St Paddy’s Day. Maybe she needs a side kick to help her out. Perhaps Obstanica could be her name? Come on Dopers, lets get her side kick a name. Even thought she doesn’t have one… yet.
“Beer, helping ugly people have sex since 1868”. Love that quote but I don’t think the year is right.
A yinzer is someone from Pittsburgh who speaks with the “Pittsburgh accent” (also known as Pittsburghese, or Pittsburgh speech if you’re an academic who studies these things, and some do!) They say “yinz” or “yunz” instead of “you guys” or “you all.” Someone will say “Yinz gahn to the Stillers game?” which would be translated as “Are you all going to the Steelers game?” Or in this case “Yinz aren’t going anywhere! Unhand that drunken woman, sir!”
And Carnegie Mellon is my school–unfortunately, looks like we’ve got a long way to go towards name recognition. We have a lot of computer geeks, which is why the fact that she’s from Pittsburgh and a computer programmer stuck in my head. Heck, she could have gone to University of Pittsburgh, I don’t know.
