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luntfontanne

damn he really is an all-time poster

quix5gg

happy pride month especially to them

womprat-deactivated20170904

happy pride month from the tribbles

trekheritageposts

star trek heritage post (June 7th, 2017)

important-dog-pics

ishowdespair-deactivated2026012

molabuddy

3 hours of sleep = i hate people who laugh

0 ours of sleep = waouw 🌼🌼🌼🌼🐎

i-am-lady-larkin

daveedmee

explosion at health potion factory 0 dead 0 injured

troy-bolton

REASONS TO BE NICE TO PEOPLE:

why the fuck do you need reasons just be nice to people omfg

cuppydogshane

My Name is 8 PM. and I am always arriving when you atrent Looking

the-disemvoweler

M Nm s 8 PM. nd m lws rrvng whn y trnt Lkng

consonant-remover

8.y

I o a a i's ooa eo

cuppydogshane

if you two had a baby it would be a regular sentence. or perhaps silence.

amuseoffyre

One of my favourite photos from my trip to Warsaw in 2006

gromitgirl2003

This is how cuteness aggression do to Wallace XDD

daughter-of-sapph0

happy pride

lindleland

learningtogirl

I've seen this clip many times, but never really appreciated the power of "what was her problem?" Just casually assuming that lesbians come in a wide variety of shapes and being inclusive. As a transbian who is probably still closer to Homer shaped than to my ideal, that's huge!

soyalexnajera

gregtom

k-simplex-deactivated20241001

Happy Pride

fforsythiaaa

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

hypokeimena

#'this is present in the text' is often a good first step #but those second and third ones (naming it; describing its function) are vital (via @elucubrare)