Guys, we feel seen.
Fani Willis apparently is very, very mad at those of us who have pronounced her name like ‘fanny.’ Apparently, you are supposed to say it more like ‘fah-nee,’ and in a recent video she told us how upset she was about the whole thing:
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According to this article …
… the remarks were made at a church in Marietta, Georgia. According to Newsweek, she even claimed that this amounted to sexualization:
‘What can I say?’ she added. ‘I live the experience of a Black woman who is attacked and oversexualized. See, I’m so tired of hearing these idiots call my name as ‘Fani’ in a way to attempt to humiliate me because, like silly school boys, the name reminds them of a woman’s rear, of her behind.’
We love how she felt the need to explain what a ‘fanny’ is.
And for the record, this author pronounces it fanny and makes fanny jokes because we mean it as in ‘you’re being an arse.’
It’s particularly lame that the first clip says ‘while they’re over there running their mouth, I’m over here paying them no mind.’ Sure, that’s why you went in front of a Congregation to complain that people are making fun of you.
Indeed, Newsweek said she was so not-upset that she also said:
What I’m here to tell you is to not concern yourself with insults of me. I promise you, I don’t concern myself with them.
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Lady, when you actually don’t care what people say, you don’t even mention it. You certainly don’t run to a church and whine about it.
She also said this gem, still according to Newsweek:
I am too busy working 15-hour days trying to use every talent God gave me to fulfill my God-given purpose.
Of course, this touches on the deep hypocrisy the left has when it comes to religion. If Trump said something like this, we’d hear endless screeching on MSNBC about how Trump is going to institute a theocracy. They would say the same thing if Trump—or any prominent Republican politician—spoke at a church. Indeed, the rule is with Democrats that you can’t mention faith or speak at a church … unless black Democrats are involved.
The moment black democrats are involved, faith is suddenly fine in their eyes. White Democratic politicians regularly speak in black churches, and embarrassingly attempt to sound ‘black,’ and of course a black politician is allowed to invoke faith all day long—as long as they invoke it in support of the right causes. Watch their behavior for a while, and you will see that we are right.
Also, we aren’t sure that God would approve of Nathan Wade spanking that Fani before he was divorced from his wife but that’s just us.
Do we have to tell you that people made fun of her even more in response to this video?
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We see what you did, there.
You learn something every day. In Joe Biden’s case, he learns every day that he is president. And then fifteen minutes later he learns it again. And then fifteen minutes later, he learns it again, and so on.
This is why this author thinks this skit from Key and Peele is fricking hilarious:
Several decades ago, it bothered this author to see so many people mispronounce and misspell our first name. But these days, it just amuses us.
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As we said a few posts back:
If her mother didn’t want it pronounced that way, she should have spelled her name differently, such as ‘Fauni.’ Or Fani could have just used her middle name (Taifa), like most lawyers who hate their first names.
Seriously, we could be wrong, but it seems like lawyers go by their middle names more than members of any other profession.
Someone was just talking about that!
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Seriously, when we first saw the name, that’s how we assumed it was pronounced. On the other hand, when we met a gentleman from Vietnam named Phuc, we chose a less obvious way to pronounce his name, just to avoid trouble.
Exactly.
Finally:
*Laughs.*