Dogma (1999) dir. Kevin Smith

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Dogma (1999) dir. Kevin Smith
It's very clear that Andrew Tate and other "redpill" influencers of his ilk didn't understand The Matrix (or maybe didn't even watch it) it they think that escaping the Matrix means living a life of luxury and fame. They got it exactly backwards.
Escaping the Matrix in the movie means living a life of hardship and discomfort. But it's a life that is full of genuine experiences and connections that aren't designed to exploit you.
To hammer the point even more, the motivation of the traitor character is to live a life of luxury and fame inside the Matrix, not caring that it's fake.
I think a lot of those people see escaping the Matrix as "you get to warp reality as you see fit and have superpowers." They see privilege as the reward for their efforts of understanding the systems in control of our world.
They forget that it means knowing your body is still in the real world, fighting against the cold and metal that want you dead for as long as you live outside of their jurisdiction.
They don't want to escape the Matrix. They just want to rule the Matrix. They want to be Agent Smith and think they're Neo.
“this character can’t/shouldn’t be trans because it doesn’t have a purpose or serve their narrative” god who the fuck cares. sometimes people are just trans.
Some Like It Hot (1959) dir. Billy Wilder
I studied this film in film class. It was one of the first films where the queer characters don’t get punished at the end but instead get to live happily ever after. It’s also the origin of the quote “Well, nobody’s perfect.”
There is something to say about the film having outdated or arguably bigoted viewpoints it portrays, but I think it helps to recognize the reaction to the film. It was banned in a few states because it “promoted homosexuality, lesbianism and transvetism” (outdated I know). It was restricted to only adult viewings because the contents were considered objectionable. I think that says something positive about it for the time.
Body language is completely unique to every single individual person and the science of body language is almost if not completely unreliable and if I have to listen to one more person claim they can “read” me by my body language I’m gonna flip.
MULTIPLE people in my life have told me they can “tell” I’m “self conscious” because I look at my feet when I walk and they say it like they want me to open up about some social insecurities, like I have some wall they’re about to break down and we’ll have a moment
And I tell them the same truth every single time:
As a kid we had two MASSIVE Holly trees in the backyard and my dad and my uncle, both well meaning but perhaps poor planners, said “yes a great place for a swing set is directly beneath those.”
So they built it there and the issue is that entire section of yard was a Minefield of dried Holly leaves with one final mission before they became dirt which was to Stab themselves into a child’s foot
And being that my siblings and I had some feral rage aversion to wearing shoes, we took to running to the swings on our tiptoes, staring at the ground for the leaves
And to this DAY I still look at the ground when I walk out of habit formed by a decade of that
And NO body language guide and NO BBC Sherlock wannabe would EVER source that
“I can tell you’re lying because you’re playing with your hair.”
I’m playing with my hair because I have ADHD and can’t stay still.
“I can tell you’re lying because you’re looking up and to the side.”
I’m looking up and to the side because I have ADHD and can’t hear you if I’m looking directly at you.
“I can tell…”
shut up shut up shut up shut up
Also note that this is EXACTLY part of what causes neurodivergent people to be targeted by cops more often (particularly neurodivergent people of color).
A huge part of body language in police work is based in assumptions about body language that neurodivergent people do not actually typically follow. They read our normal movements as “signs” that we’re guilty and they roll with it without questioning whether or not they’re just biased with their own pre-existing expectations of what not-guilty people act like. They base their “signs that someone’s guilty” explicitly off of normal habits and behaviors of disabled and neurodivergent people.
That’s dangerous and it’s especially dangerous for disabled & neurodivergent POC and people with more obvious atypical tics & behaviors.
Thousands of premature infants were saved from certain death by being part of a Coney Island entertainment sideshow.
At the time premature babies were considered genetically inferior, and were simply left to fend for themselves and ultimately die.
Dr Martin Couney offered desperate parents a pioneering solution that was as expensive as it was experimental - and came up with a very unusual way of covering the costs.
It was Coney Island in the early 1900’s. Beyond the Four-Legged Woman, the sword swallowers, and “Lionel the Lion-Faced Man,” was an entirely different exhibit: rows of tiny, premature human babies living in glass incubators.
The brainchild of this exhibit was Dr. Martin Couney, an enigmatic figure in the history of medicine. Couney created and ran incubator-baby exhibits on the island from 1903 to the early 1940s.
Behind the gaudy facade, premature babies were fighting for their lives, attended by a team of medical professionals.To see them, punters paid 25 cents.The public funding paid for the expensive care, which cost about $15 a day in 1903 (the equivalent of $405 today) per incubator.
Couney was in the lifesaving business, and he took it seriously. The exhibit was immaculate. When new children arrived, dropped off by panicked parents who knew Couney could help them where hospitals could not, they were immediately bathed, rubbed with alcohol and swaddled tight, then “placed in an incubator kept at 96 or so degrees, depending on the patient. Every two hours, those who could suckle were carried upstairs on a tiny elevator and fed by breast by wet nurses who lived in the building. The rest [were fed by] a funneled spoon. The smallest baby Couney handled is reported to have weighed a pound and a half.
His nurses all wore starched white uniforms and the facility was always spotlessly clean.
An early advocate of breast feeding, if he caught his wet nurses smoking or drinking they were sacked on the spot. He even employed a cook to make healthy meals for them.
The incubators themselves were a medical miracle, 40 years ahead of what was being developed in America at that time.
Each incubator was made of steel and glass and stood on legs, about 5ft tall. A water boiler on the outside supplied hot water to a pipe running underneath a bed of mesh, upon which the baby slept.
Race, economic class, and social status were never factors in his decision to treat and Couney never charged the parents for the babies care.The names were always kept anonymous, and in later years the doctor would stage reunions of his “graduates.
According to historian Jeffrey Baker, Couney’s exhibits “offered a standard of technological care not matched in any hospital of the time.”
Throughout his decades of saving babies, Couney understood there were better options. He tried to sell, or even donate, his incubators to hospitals, but they didn’t want them. He even offered all his incubators to the city of New York in 1940, but was turned down.
In a career spanning nearly half a century he claimed to have saved nearly 6,500 babies with a success rate of 85 per cent, according to the Coney Island History
In 1943, Cornell New York Hospital opened the city’s first dedicated premature infant station. As more hospitals began to adopt incubators and his techniques, Couney closed the show at Coney Island. He said his work was done.
Today, one in 10 babies born in the United States is premature, but their chance of survival is vastly improved—thanks to Couney and the carnival babies.
https://nypost.com/2018/07/23/how-fake-docs-carnival-sideshow-brought-baby-incubators-to-main-stage/
Book: The strange case of Dr. Couney
New York Post Photograph: Beth Allen
Original FB post by Liz Watkins Barton
I have suddenly just realized that if weren’t for the actions of this man whom I’ve never met, I might not be alive right now
I was born in Coney Island hospital in 1979, at 26 weeks, weighing in at 1 lb 13 oz, 13 inches long. They wrote an article about me in a local paper, because I was one of the strongest preemies in the NICU at the time. I survived to go home is what they meant. Brain damage caused cerebral palsy, my lungs were underdeveloped, I would go on to develop over two dozen other medical conditions. But I went home after two months and here I am. The photos are intense. I was really really small.
Sawbones did a positively beautiful episode about this dude. Please go listen, he was a GENUINE hero helping people of any class and race FOR FREE when that was an even bigger issue than it is today. He saved so many lives. A wonderful effect on the world.
I understand it intellectually, but it still bewilders me on a spiritual level that people create separate tumblrs for obsessing over each specific interest, because I’m just here unendingly like BEHOLD, THE COLLAGE OF ME.
i want to see more representation of aromantic, asexual and aspec women in the media.
i think up to this point, it's already a taboo. always, ALWAYS on tv shows, women's goals are to have a partner, have children and why?
why are men's goals to save the world? and no matter if they have or are looking for a partner or not, they're always going to be the superhero !!
and women always need the power of love to be at least "good"
I JUST WANT A POWERFUL WOMAN THAT CAN SAVE THE WORLD AND IS NOT INTERESTED IN LOVE OR SEX AAAAAA
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(reminder that all purchases from my redbubble will be going towards helping me leave a financially abusive situation!)
look at those
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To all of us who’re just a mess ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤎
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“Buddy you’re a young man hard man
Shoutin’ in the street gonna take on the world some day
You got blood on yo’ face
You big disgrace
Wavin’ your banner all over the place”
When you’re happy without a care in the world and then life interrupts your happiness
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That death stare gave me chills