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asksloyxp

Maybe if I just work harder, this empty cup will pour again

shinyrock6498

Maybe the cup needs a bit of time to rest and refill?

asksloyxp

Maybe the cup needs to lock the fuck in???

dragon-in-a-fez

ever wandered around in an open world video game and noticed there are no children? no elderly people? no fat people? no one using a wheelchair? no one with a guide dog? this is supposed to feel like a living world and there's so much of life that's just not there

depsidase

delicatetrashdelusion

exitwound

physically i’m here but mentally i’m a member of the strawberry cult in hieronymus bosch’s garden of earthly delights

exitwound

literally the blueprint for cottagecore hoes everywhere

Shannon Pratson, "Still Life with Sky, Coffee, Tulips, Anna Karenina, and God"

boykeats

[ID: excerpt from a poem reading,

"Grocery store tulips. Empty coffee cup in the sink. Morning sky smeared pink, like the inside of a salmon.

I have been lonely in so many cities and now I am lonely in absence of the city, the crowd at the Met that made me small and whole as a seed.

How do other people pray?"

/end ID}

thestuffedalligator

“Incurious” is an incredible thing to call someone. It conveys so much with so little. To be so uninterested with learning or developing an understanding that it’s damning. To fail to feel what a toddler does by instinct.

I sometimes go back to the Dan Olson video about Doug Walker and there’s a bit where he says “Doug wants to be a filmmaker, he wants to make art, but he can't, because he's a fundamentally incurious person who isn't much interested in what other people think or feel and all his ideas boil down to ‘what if Batman met Mario?’” and I know that if this was said about most artists I have met they would wither up on the spot like a dying spider

tinybed

ppl rly hate girls with eating disorders tbh. did anyone else notice this

tinybed

like its funny that theyre seen as the primary perpetuators of diet culture and unhealthy eating and not as the most obvious victims of it

horsesource

anarchistmemedistro

awildwickedslip

when second wave feminists brought the widespread nature of incest and child sex abuse to the light, they located its causes very accurately in the patriarchal family, the social and economic domination of men over women, the dependence and thus vulnerability of children. these critiques which threaten the very foundations of the patriarchal order were quickly swept under the figure of “the pedophile.” it was no longer a deep-seated structural issue inevitable in a society ordered in specific oppressive ways, but a matter of individual pathology. the child molester isn’t your dad or your nice neighbor or your priest or your little league coach, it’s a pedophile: some barely human monster. and if the child molester is your dad, or your nice neighbor, or your priest, or your little league coach, and they can be recognized as such, well, they are transformed as if by magic from those integral parts of the human community into the pedophile as demonic outcast. the feminist systematic critique is neutralized. this is why i hate to see pedophile used to refer to almost anything but someone’s self-expressed sexual fixation on prepubescent children. it is not semantic quibbling or minimizing abuse, but that i think the use of the term pedophile as the ubiquitous framework for understanding csa is the minimization of the depth of the problem.

adonischildsupportcase

milkcastro

And what if rap WAS only about sex, violence, and drugs... what then? Would you be justified in looking down upon it as not being "real" art? What would your justification be? Sex is immoral and taboo? Drugs should never be mentioned outside of D.A.R.E programs? Songs about violence turn children to it? Would you turn that standard to other genres as well? I know you wouldn't, I know you haven't, because it's never really been about the topics explored.

angstics

"homosexuals have no clout" scene from angels in america (2003)

sirenofthetimes

the whole point of girls doing the not like other girls thing is basically them believing that the girls around them lack an interior life. they were raised on depictions of women as shallow caricatures and they recognize themselves to be actual people with thoughts and feelings, but instead of drawing the conclusion that these depictions of women are incorrect, they draw the conclusion that those depictions of women are correct and that must mean they're smarter and have more substance than the "average" woman. to exit the not like other girls phase means recognizing that all real life women have the same level of interiority as you do, and that depictions of women in the media as consistently empty headed and frivolous are misogynistic stereotypes not grounded in reality.

i say all this to say that to exit a not like other girls phase does not necessitate taking an interest in "traditionally feminine" ways of dress and makeup, nor does it mean never saying anything negative about the beauty industry

communistkenobi

But adequately stigmatizing Rowling’s weaponization of childhood not only requires personal withdrawal for most people, it necessitates something much more difficult: being a giant fucking killjoy. You should tell people discussing the show that you’re not watching it, and why, and you should let yourself openly cringe at your sister-in-law’s Harry Potter tote bag, and you should bring up unprompted that the onslaught of legislation against trans people makes you sad and angry, presuming it does, and you should do this because, not despite, the fact that it will make you look annoying as hell and may make everyone present uncomfortable. (You probably won’t even get the kudos of looking like a cool ally, because you’re still ultimately talking about Harry Potter. Sorry about that.)

Most trans people, everywhere they go, have to be the outnumbered loser who cares about the anti-trans movement, and who notices how that movement lodges itself in “safe” territory, in order to make calling it out look crazy and unreasonable. The most powerful thing you can do in this situation doesn’t concern your attachments, or even your beliefs. It’s giving up on the idea that there is such a thing as safe territory. A kid’s book, a magic wand, even the idea of joy itself can be a tool used to club a kid back into the closet. Act accordingly.

This recent Defector article made something click for me re: my feelings on Harry Potter, which is that every time you encounter someone enjoying it, you as a trans person are reminded that you are completely and utterly alone in caring about your own humanity.

I kind of hate that HP is embedded in the insufferable discourses of “death of the author” / “separating the art from the artist” / “watching children’s programming is a sign of intellectual deficiency” / “let people enjoy things” / etc. All of these conversations are long-dead horses, and I’m probably not alone in saying that I find them very boring. But more fundamentally they feel off-topic when talking about Harry Potter. Framing HP in those terms feels like it’s minimising what is actually being discussed, which is a trans-exterminationist billionaire. The degree and scale of harm makes it feel qualitatively different from other properties that usually get debated within those discourse cycles.

So what I appreciate about this article is that it makes a parallel with common trans experiences, which is 1) having to constantly educate people around you about why they should care about you, 2) being the annoying SJW killjoy for correcting someone any time they misgender you or saying something transphobic. And now HP has become one of those topics in which you need to educate people and be annoying. People who like HP either don’t know about JKR’s transphobia (which strains credulity at this point, but whatever) or they don’t. In either case you are about to have some kind of deeply unpleasant interaction, or, maybe even more soul-crushing, you swallow it and say nothing. Every time I see anything Harry Potter related I am reminded of systemic transphobic violence. The HP fans’ ignorance or apathy re: Rowling is essentially the same, because in either case it demonstrates that they don’t give a fuck. It makes me feel profoundly alone, and the added indignity of it all is that it is a children’s book series that serves as that reminder. It’s just another thing that frames trans people as insane, as annoying, as ridiculous and out of touch with “the normal world,” because the terms of the debate are framed around books for twelve year-olds. It’s brilliant, in a way, because it gives people an easy reason to dismiss you - it’s just a book, it’s just a movie! It can’t hurt you, calm down you freak.