Ireland’s PM Gives the Perfect St. Paddy’s Clapback

Just issues, news, and other stuff that matters to you [Fusion]( March 17, 2017 Pinch me, it’s Friday! And of course, happy St. Paddy’s to you as well. We’ll make this quick so you can get back to your green beer and your corned beef, but if you wanted to impress your buddies with an actual Irish proverb (unlike a certain commander in chief’s [Nigerian poem]( we’ve got a particularly timely one for you: “It is in the shelter of each other that people survive.” [—Anne Branigin]( TODAY IN... SRSLY 👀 Trump is known for many things, but grace and humor are certainly not among them—particularly after [this embarrassing display]( of statesmanship with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. LOOKIN' GOOD 📸 This year we saw [the most diverse collection]( of models to walk the runway at Fashion Weeks across the world. But, there’s a long way to go yet. YOUR FAVE UNCLE 💕 Good old former VP Joe Biden returned to say the things we’re all thinking. This time, he slammed the White House’s [terrible record]( on trans rights. SLÁINTE 🍻 On the first St. Patrick’s Day under a Trump presidency, it’s important to remember Irish Americans’ history as [a vilified immigrant group](. PRETTY HURTS 💄 This K-pop group's latest music videos on “[becoming prettier]( shine an ugly light on South Korea's plastic surgery obsession. THE READ [Beauty and the Beast's New Gay Character Isn't Nearly as Modern as Disney Wants You to Think]( by Charles Pulliam-Moore Without radically rewriting Gaston to be anything other than Beauty and the Beast‘s central evil, there was never going to be a version of LeFou who wasn’t, in at least some way, associated with evil. That itself isn’t necessarily a bad thing—queer people deserve the chance to be villainous just as much as straight people. But whereas Condon’s description of LeFou’s sexuality is frank and impossible to misinterpret, in the movie LeFou reads less as “silly sidekick who happens to be gay” and more like “emotionally repressed henchman who, blinded by his unrequited love, follows a straight asshole in his quest to murder an innocent man.” It’s an outdated queer character archetype that feels out of place in a movie that manages to be modern in so many other ways. [Read more](. LET’S TALK ABOUT REAL FIGHTING SPIRIT Leave it to the Irish to come out swinging on St. Patrick’s Day. In pointed remarks delivered alongside President You-Know-Who, [Prime Minister Enda Kenny]( lauded America’s history of welcoming foreigners—including the Irish—and reminded us that St. Paddy himself is considered the patron saint of immigrants. Cheers to that. The Latest [The Trump administration just announced it's taking its fight to ban Muslims to the next level]( [Read More]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [A crowd just drowned this Republican senator in boos for her slavish support of Trump]( [Read More]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Vine]( [Instagram]( [Youtube]( Remember, you can always [click here to unsubscribe]( and never see another one of these emails until the apocalypse (at which time it'll be nothing but emails). [Unsubscribe]( This email was sent to {EMAIL} Fusion · 419 Lafayette St · New York, NY 10003 · USA