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[rcmclachlan]

Turns out, 2000 was 20 years ago. Which is odd, since 1980 was also.

[rhube]

The thing Gen-Z really needs to understand is that no one older than them is ever going to be able to estimate time correctly because the Millennium.

The Millennium will always be Not That Long Ago. Everything since the Millennium will always be, in some sense, ‘new’.

It just broke us, OK? It was too big and we’ll never quite be able to deal.

[lrgcarter]

Was the real millennium bug inside us all along?

[jenroses]

yep.

[porcupine-girl]

I think at least part of this is that pop culture has gotten such a longer shelf life over the past 20 years.

You can listen to a Top 40 station now and hear a song from 10 years ago easily, even songs from the 80s or 90s on special occasions (which might just be the Nineties at Noon or whatever every single day).

A Top 40 station in the 80s? Played the current fucking Top 40 and that was it. You were lucky if you heard a song that was one year old, definitely never ten. I was born in 1979 and heard almost no music from before I was born until high school or college. If you wanted to hear anything older than a year, you had to listen to a classic rock (late 60s to 70s) or oldies (50s to early 60s) station. There was nothing earlier than that on the radio.

A restaurant was playing What a Feeling, from 1983. 28 years before my son was born. That’s the equivalent of hearing a song from 1951 in the late 80s, which just did not happen. Even for an oldies station, it was hard to find anything that old.

VCRs were just getting big in the mid-80s, but there was a limited selection of videos you could buy (or even rent) for them. Most video rental stores didn’t bother to stock TV shows, it just wasn’t worth it. (Few shows were even released on VHS.)

So you could generally watch recent movies and “classics” but if you were looking for some random movie from the mid-70s - that’s only ten years previous - you were mostly out of luck. Imagine looking for a movie from 2006 right now, and you can find maybe the top-grossing ones and a few that won Oscars, but Night at the Museum? The Devil Wears Prada? You’re shit outta luck. That’s what it would have been like looking for movies from 1976 in 1989.

So for those of us who grew up in the 80s and early 90s, pop culture had a hard limit of about a decade, if that. By the late 90s, the internet was good enough that music was starting to stretch that, but you still couldn’t really get video through the internet and DVDs were still catching up in terms of what was available. You didn’t really get entire seasons of TV on DVD until the early 00s - the first season of The Simpsons, which aired in 1989, wasn’t released on DVD until 2001.

Anyhow, I think that’s why a lot of older millennials and Gen Xers are having trouble wrapping our heads around the idea that the year 2000 was almost 20 years ago. Because we grew up in a world where if you heard a song regularly, or watched a movie or a TV show that wasn’t late-night reruns, it had probably been released within the past 5 years, and almost definitely within the past 20. Our brains haven’t quite gotten used to hearing a new song followed by a 30-year-old song on the radio and not just being able to find any decade-old movie at will but seeing gifs of decade-old movies almost daily. Our brains think that means those things must still be new.

[lostmind3]

I have never heard anyone explain it so clearly before. And I LIVED it.

[randomslasher]

That’s a really great break down! My radio station plays “hits of the 80s, 90s, and now!” and like…even that, you’re saying “now” encompasses everything that isn’t the 80s and 90s which…yeah, that’s legit how it feels to us. There was the 80s, there was the 90s, and there’s now. And now isn’t that long, it’s just…now. But “now” is actually 21 years??? It doesn’t feel possible.

I watch a lot of movie reviews and breakdowns on youtube and when someone says “that’s just how we were back in the early 2010s, it was a different time” or “this movie that came out in 2005 was formative to my childhood” it breaks my brain just a little. And I think everything in this post is exactly why. How could 2005 have been your early childhood, when it’s just part of “now”? How could the early 2010s be different times when they’re also just part of “now”?

I’m intensely relieved to know this is a universal thing and not just my own inability to move forward. I also figured it was something that happened to everyone as they aged, but now I’m thinking the unique circumstances of the Millennium, the evolution of media availability and the shelf life of pop culture may have made this a uniquely “Gen X/Millennial” experience. This is really fascinating, thank you for the explanation!  

[picsthatmakeyougohmm]

hmmm

[spiroandthelacktones]

Oh my god It’s her, it’s Janet Sport

[endreal]

I like her JanShorts

[systlin]

Ok but I would wear this

[thebibliosphere]

“Thanks, it’s got pockets.” :)

[cryoverkiltmilk]

Rob Liefeld, but make it fashion.

[flamecanary]

Okay, but I am legit sad that she didn’t finish the look wiith a JanSport fanny pack. 

[peniswakt-deactivated20210717]

this may be an Unpopular Opinion (even on tumblr) but like the 8-hour workday is just Too Gotdamn Long

like even sitting in an office for eight hours a day isn’t particularly pleasant (or healthy, as we are beginning to see) but when we’re talking about doing *actual work* for that same amount time it gets pretty fucking brutal

doing literally *anything* (even leisure activities) for eight hours straight tends to be less than enjoyable but when we’re talking about things like construction, landscaping, factory work, and hell, even foodservice and retail, eight hours is a fucking ETERNITY

i might just be a lazy weak-willed bitch but honestly i think i’m not entirely wrong

[tyrannosaurus-rex]

this was being worked towards by leftist labor unions way back in the day after the time of FDRs new deal. people in the 40s and 50s were already starting to realize that we no longer actually needed an 8 hour work day or even a 5 day work week.

even with the comparatively primitive factory tech of the time we were already creating a huge amount of excess production back then and companies were making massive amounts of profit. So it already stood to reason that companies should either let their employees work less and thus each employee could work a shorter shift without lowering the yearly compensation of each employee, or in cases where businesses provide an active service they would shorten the shift but hire more people to cover the necessary operating time. but of course that would mean less money for people at the top so companies fought back hard and we ended up with nixon’s bullshit and so on and now its considered the norm for us to spend the vast majority of our lives doing work that really just amounts to waste. 

[dreamer-of-centipedes]

The IWW realised this and were fighting for it all the way back in the 1930s. This is a take with a lot of historical and theoretical grounding, OP, so you’re standing in good stead.

[aztechnology]

I’d also like to add it’s also been studied and scientifically proven that after 6 hours, we have an extremely noticeable drop in productivity. Sweden saw nothing but benefits from a 6-hour work day, including worker productivity, happiness, and half the amount of sick-leave used when applied to nurses.

https://onlinemasters.ohio.edu/the-six-hour-workday/

[invaderxan]

[drst]

oh my fucking god

[niascribbles]

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[stfudiscoinfernoed-archive]

It’s pretty evident that people use gender conformity to determine which bi people are “actually gay” or “actually straight.” A bi man wearing a crop top and makeup will have his attraction to women dismissed because it’s “obvious” he is gay. A bi woman who is more traditionally feminine will have her attraction to women dismissed because it is “obvious” she is straight.

Gender conforming bi people aren’t straight.

Gender nonconforming bi people aren’t gay. Even when they are really gender nonconforming.

Believe people when they say they are bi.

[thekanechronicles]

No marriage required.

[splitseconddecision]

the entire time i spent watching this movie i was just waiting for charlotte to turn into a traitorous bitch, because that is what the media has told me for my entire life that her character archetype is supposed to do

kudos to disney for proving me wrong

[do-asdreamersdo-deactivated2015]

Let me tell you how great Lottie is. 1. She has EVERYTHING. This girl can literally have anything she wants and instead of hanging out with girls of her social class she’s friends with a poor girl. 2. Not only is she below her social class but she is African American which back in the twenties was COMPLETELY frowned upon. Lottie is risking social status to be friends with Tia. 3. When Tia and Naveen end up together in the end, Lottie doesn’t throw a fit or act upset, she is genuinely happy that Tiana has found true love even though that’s all Lottie has ever wanted her whole life. Something that her daddy can’t buy for her. 4. She’s true to herself and doesn’t let others judge her just because of how much money she has and she has a wonderful friend like Tiana that loves her for that. Lottie is wonderful and is highly underrated.

[rainbowloliofjustice]

If Tiana had let her, Charlotte would have bought the restaurant for Tiana and stocked it with the most expensive everything and had a grand ball for the opening. 

[takashi0]

#Charlotte was a ride or die chick to the end#like she’s the defination of sugar and sweetness as a person#like Tiana could ask her for anything and Charlotte would do it no questions or conditions required

[libertarirynn-deactivated202006]

Remember that scene when Charlotte was hanging out with the prince until she came across Tiana who had fallen into her beignet table and gotten desserts all over her dress after being rejected by the racist assholes who denied her restaurant, and Charlotte immediately dropped everything to get Tiana cleaned up and gave her one of her own dresses. The entire night she’d been going nuts because all she wanted was to be with the prince but her friend was in trouble so she put that shit on hold no questions asked. Charlotte was a real one.

[keithislactoseintolerant-deacti]

[pettycentral]

[i-dont-like-tumb1r-anymore]

This has better pacing and comedic timing than most Hollywood movies

[thatqueerchoirkid]

ljgkysetxdcfnvftjsthfgghkdfghj LMAOOO

[theslaybymic]

this is so great. fuck toxic masculinity. we need something like this stateside (x) | follow @this-is-life-actually

[tk40seven-deactivated20181215]

i love this so much

[colachampagnedad]

for all my quiet & reserved men going thru it i love u all

[queenstravelingdarling]

This!!!! Spread this message around. Crying is good!!!!

[force-ghostt]

I’m designed in a certain way that things are forced into a stretched position 😳

[cryoverkiltmilk]

Here we have Henry Cavill finding a very classy way to let us all know that his meat is huge.

[flamecanary]

He is MORE than welcome to stretch me so that I don’t go back to my natural shape either. 

[doodleforfood]

Happy International Dog Day! 

Here are four of my favorite dog-related comics I’ve made so far

[glumshoe]

Theoretically I don’t object to the idea of Harley Quinn moving away from The Joker’s influence and having that reflected in her costume, but that’s… not what her character designers have done. They’ve dropped the clown theme for a design based on a skimpy cheerleading uniform in the same colors as her traditional costume. If Harley’s costume change is supposed to reflect a new idependence, it shouldn’t be based on her old costume at all and should be something new and cool to represent self-reinvention, not just “we didn’t think the clown theme was sexy enough to sell to a modern audience”.

HOWEVER. You know what would be fun? If Harley decided to out-clown the Joker and steal his theme from him. Commit to the act in a way he never could and actually take up classes on clowning and physical comedy. Become Dr. Harley Quinn, the DCU’s leading expert on being a clown. When people think “the clown from Gotham” they don’t think of The Joker at all. That would be sweet, sweet revenge that I would love to read.

[brawltogethernow]

“The clown from Gotham.” “Which one?” “The one who knows what she’s doing.”

“It’s that clown again.” “I thought he was in Metropolis this week?” “Clown as in clown, not clown as in embarrassment to humanity.” “Oh, the doctor.”

[phoenixyfriend]

Doctor Clown

[brawltogethernow]

(nodding) Doctor Clown.

[pesmenos]

why is there such a stigma against wearing pads? like why is it that people who wear tampons are seen as ‘strong’ and ‘cool’? y’all know that someone people can’t wear them bc it hurts them or that they just don’t like them? stop making it seem like people who wear pads are childish and weak compared to those who wear tampons 

[postcardsfromtheoryland]

Ok kids buckle up because I know the answer to this question because I am a bitter, vindictive person.

So my first semester of PhD work in a musicology program involved this horrible class with a professor that wanted to suck the life out of all of his students by constantly belittling them. We had to write a short paper each week and present them conference-style and then he would tear us to shreds and do it all over again next week. The purpose of the class was supposedly to have us write papers about materials that hadn’t really been looked at by musicologists yet, and my class had music in advertisements. I was also the only woman in the class and the prof was lowkey sexist so I kept trying to do feminist topics without losing my entire will to live.

So we get to the end of the semester and I am just completely out of fucks, I have one paper left to write and I say fuck it, let’s write about pads and tampons, there must be something there, right? It turns out there IS something to be said there (and this gets back to OP’s question). Early pad and tampon commercials were very similar to each other; basically here’s a product to help you stay clean during your period. But around 1980, suddenly there’s public outcry and panic over tampons due to TSS (Toxic Shock Syndrome). At that point no one really understood how TSS worked but they knew it had to do with tampons. So women freaked out and started switching to pads instead. Now the worst offender, Rely, was taken off the market and other tampon commercials got slapped with little warning signs like “This product could cause TSS” so women bought even fewer tampons. This is when the advertising strategies for the two products changed.

Pad advertisements were now about “cleanliness” and “purity” - they knew you couldn’t get TSS from pads and they were going to emphasize that fact. You’ve got women in white dresses with long hair slowly walking through fields of flowers with pastoral-y flutes in the background. And to fight back, tampon companies take it the complete opposite direction - they ignore TSS entirely and start showing businesswomen running to catch the subway, sporty women riding bikes, basically any sort either high-powered position or active woman showed up in these commercials with contemporary pop-song type music over the top. The clear intention was “yeah we know that these could cause TSS but they’re much better for your mobility, both physically and career-wise.”

I got done giving this paper and I look up to see my four male classmates and one male professor in varying shades of pale-ness and they just all sort of looked at me for a couple minutes without knowing how to respond. It’s one of the proudest moments of my PhD career so far.

Anyway the two products have been advertised basically the same ways ever since then. Now pads are much more comfortable and discreet, and we understand how TSS works and how to avoid it, but the commercial strategies are cemented. If you want to be a strong, on-the-go woman of COURSE you’ll wear a tampon because you don’t want to be one of those sissy ladies in the pastoral field of flowers over in pad-land, do you?

[thisauthorisscreaming]

Reblog if you are happily living in the pastoral field of flowers over in pad-land.

[lady-byleth]

I have a little house there

[flamecanary]

Earlier today, a friend posted a link to a piece on The Atlantic about the mythology of “Karen”, and a couple of lines jumped out at me. Specifically:

1. “The target of Karen’s entitled anger is typically presumed to be a racial minority […], and so she is […] using her white femininity to present herself as a victim, when she is really the aggressor[…]” 

and 

2. “[a] white woman’s tears were, again, a weapon to unleash the authorities[…]” 

Between the brilliant episode on Calendar Girl from The New Batman Adventures that Joshua Unruh and Caleb Masters did today on their podcast, An Animated Discussion, and those two lines, I was reminded of the 2004 Catwoman movie. (I know. I’m sorry, too.) But the reason I bring it up is because there’s a scene in the movie where Laurel Hedare, played by Sharon Stone, a white woman with power, uses her power and privilege to frame Patience Philips, aka Catwoman, played by Halle Berry, a Black woman. 

Of course, the cherry on top of the framing her are crocodile tears as she sends the police after Catwoman for the alleged murder of her husband, and the fact that she at first pretended to be on Catwoman’s side so that she could use her as an end to her own means. Sure, Patience is in some ways empowered because of the mythology around Catwoman that the movie has set up, but it should also be pointed out that Laurel Hedare herself has nearly unbreakable, rock-hard skin as a result of the toxic cosmetics cream she’s been liberally applying for a long time, and thus is literally using a form of delicate, white femininity to present herself as the victim of Patience’s empowered Black woman. 

The movie itself never actually delves into the racial politics of these two women; more than likely it’s a happy accident caused by Berry having been cast as Catwoman after Ashely Judd, a white woman, walked away from the film after having been attached to it for a while. Still, it’s an interesting moment in movie history, wildly relevant to current events, and if the story was ever retold in any capacity, I’d love to see a little bit of focus and light shed on the racial, classist, and political dynamics that both bring Laurel and Patience together and separate them. Also, I realize that as an Indian guy, I’m definitely not the authority on this topic, but that moment from the movie came to mind unbidden, especially because of the wicked smile that Hedare gives once the cops give chase to Catwoman, right after she was pretending to cry and grieve. (If you’re wondering about the Calendar Girl connection, it’s because both Calendar Girl and Laurel Hedare were beautiful models who were considered too old to model any more and were considered to be ageing out of the industry, which is honestly just bullshit.) 

[officialhydroflask]

the ideas “azula was a victim of abuse who was manipulated and hurt by ozai” and “azula had a hand in a lot of trauma for zuko due to her awful treatment of him” can and should coexist