No one asked the Guardian of Forever: Ryan Gosling literally saves woman from death by taxi

The intertubes are abuzz because actor Ryan Gosling prevented a woman from being run over by a NYC taxi. Perhaps he shouldn't have. She's certainly not grateful. (h/t Instapundit)

Laurie Penny, a British journalist, tweeted about the incident after it happened ("I literally, LITERALLY just got saved from a car by Ryan Gosling. Literally. That actually just happened") and posted several follow-ups about how annoyed she was that people were talking about how Ryan Gosling is some kind of a hero.

Feminuts hate it when their white knight doesn't have two X chromosomes. Literally.

Now, Penny has penned a lengthy, smug and anti-American explanation of her thoughts about the incident and the subsequent media meltdown over at Gawker. If the first two paragraphs alone don't make you want to throw up in your mouth, we don't know what will. . . . So basically, she nearly got hit by a cab because she was thinking about Super Important issues that the rest of us aren't aware of. Penny then turns the fascination with the fact that Ryan Gosling kind-of-sort-of saved her life into an intolerable piece about feminism and how this exemplifies everything that is wrong with American culture.

And having read that, the first thing that literally popped into my mind was: Edith Keeler must die.

Except I literally can't see either Kirk or McCoy falling in love with the likes of Laurie Penny. But a sanctimoniously smug leftie windbag screwing up the future? Yeah, that's literally not much of a stretch.

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