Dinner Remastered

Howie, he/him, 23. Icon by @bitrotbf

[swarnpert]

white boy shocks chinese restaurant with his wolf lightning powers

[pjackk]

High key the nut vids use to be crazier. Wjht happened?

[pjackk]

Nobodys busting hard no more

[thequeenoftheentiregoddamnworld]

Hey, hey, look me in the eyes when I tell you this okay? The whole "do trans women or trans men have it worse?" debate going on right now is the most obvious CIA bullshit on earth cause honestly we've both got it pretty shitty and fighting each other isn't helping anyone

[cat-found-in-an-allie]

"Do I, the person thrown into the right end of the volcano, have it worse than them, the person thrown into the left end of the volcano?"

[dogpuppy]

[bruzum]

[laterkiss]

tshirt that says I HAD POTENTIAL

[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.

[mcmangos]

plus my peanuts got an attitude

[cpericardium]

happy pride

[cetitan]

[pseudomantis]

[pseudomantis]

[pseudomantis]

[pseudomantis]

When U listen 2 music

[cloevr]

[nycswebhead]

theres a new villain roaming around new york that has all the powers of a tapir. give me an hour or two im gonna go google what the fuck tapirs do ill let you know if we need to be scared

[nycswebhead]

OK it seems if you are fruits or berries this is really really bad news for you otherwise youre fine

[boybeetles]

There’s no mobility aids in the game so I just gave him a pet cane

[bonivers]