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祝日 / Permanent Vacation
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
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Verified: Microsoft 365 gets massive 45% price hike — and it's all to do with AI tools (Tom's Guide - January 17, 2025)
oopsie i tripped and spilled my link to archive dot org's downloadable copy of Microsoft office suite for 2007, which features no AI tools and is a powerful word processor that still holds up just fine on windows 10!
Some Like It Hot (1959) dir. Billy Wilder
#someone pointed out once that he chose his female name because he liked it#whereas the other man just picked the female version of his existing name#because it was easier and that was his main concern#lot of interesting gender stuff going on here
Oh yeah there was a lot of "Hayes Code be damned, all of us making this film are queer/friends with queers and we're going to have some fun with gender identity" in this film. That's why it still holds up. It's not a story based around getting a laugh out of dressing men up as women so they can be clowns - there's an integrity to the cross-dressing. Daphne is an identity Jerry realized he had when he put on a dress. Every time he chooses to keep his wig and outfit on and maintain his feminine mannerisms while alone with Joe, it shows his comfort in this identity, and it elicits laughter from the audience through the dialogue, ie. the audience isn't laughing at the fact that a man is in a dress, but at the characters as fleshed out characters and human beings. The laughter comes from the situations the characters are put in and their reactions to them, not from a parody of womanhood presented through a male perspective. Similarly, Osgood's classic line at the end of the film is an affirmation that he likes Jerry as he is, even if he's Daphne. It's a way of getting the audience to say, "this is fine, we're comfortable" through laughter to something socially unacceptable in its time.
Joe's masculine identity, meanwhile, is used to highlight his misogyny and force him to understand it (and the same with Jerry, but as he's less of a womanizer, there's less of a point to be made with him). In a world where men and women often had separate social circles that overlapped only when romance was on the table, putting a man like Joe in a female space where he's privy to the conversations and emotions that his actions elicit gives him a lot to contend with and understand because he can see the consequences of his actions as raw pain and secondhand, instead of as anger being spewed directly at him. Again, the joke isn't that he's a man in a dress, or that he's parodying womanhood, it's that as a selfish misogynist he's put in situations where he's forced to empathize with the experience of womanhood in order to convincingly enact it for his own safety.
There's a whole lot more to unpack in the metaphor of these two men having to pass as women because their lives are at stake if they don't.
Okay so for one of my screenwriting and film studies sections I wrote a paper comparing the language of clothing and feminism from Wilder in two of his films, The Apartment and Some Like it Hot.
Now I am not going to spew out a wall of text on the subject or anything, but I did want to point out that he did not just "sneak things by" the code, he actually deliberately REFUSED to abide by it at all for this film, he willfully refused to even apply for the certification, he knew it wouldn't pass, and he knew he wouldn't bend to let it pass.
He and the studio took a gamble that a Wilder-Curtis-Lemmon-Monroe flick would do box office and get play without the "seal of approval" from the code folks.
And he was right.
Hey! If you like this and you like Some Like It Hot; you should know that it was also made into a musical that is currently on tour!
The story has been updated and Daphne is a canonically trans woman (though granted, they do not use the term), and her relationship with Oswald (the man who want to marry her in the above gif set) is played as an unabashed, adorable romance.
They have also updated it to be a more racially accurate depiction of the Jazz club scene, so both Daphne and the Marilyn Monroe character Sugar Kane are both black. Not race blind casting; it's in the script, and Sugar Kane has a incredible solo on her experience with segregation.
It's a beautiful, touching, inspiring story, and one of my favorite adaptations, in any medium.
J. Harrison Ghee (shown as Daphne in the YouTube preview) also became one of the first two non-binary actors to win a Tony award! (J. Harrison Ghee won won Best Actor in a Musical and Alex Newell won Best Featured Actor in a Musical for Shucked, both in 2023.)
Turns out the horsemen of the Apocalypse now prefer to go by Shareholder Profit, Private Equity, Corporate Personhood, and Workforce Optimization.
Shareholder Profit: War (the casus belli for attacks on workers' rights)
Private Equity: Pestilence (they are parasites that voraciously strip the value out of a healthy business until it withers and dies)
Workforce Optimization: Famine (cutting hours and employees until the business is starved of staff, barely functioning)
Corporate Personhood: Death (a hollow, shambling mockery of a human with rights and needs)
Yeah I can work with that.
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This is how I learned that it’s the 14th today, not the 15th, as I had thought it was all day 🤣
ok but like. there are two different types of privilege. there's type a "everybody should have this, but some people don't" and type b "nobody should have this, but some people do"
there's having parents who can pay for your application to any college, and then there's having parents who can bribe your way into any college. there's owning your own home, and then there's owning 50 houses and getting rich off hoarding a vital resource. there's not fearing for your life whenever cops are around, and then there's being the cop and being allowed to murder anyone at any time.
idk i just feel like that's an important distinction to make.
USA people! Buy NOTHING Feb 28 2025. Not anything. 24 hours. No spending. Buy the day before or after but nothing. NOTHING. February 28 2025. Not gas. Not milk. Not something on a gaming app. Not a penny spent. (Only option in a crisis is local small mom and pop. Nothing. Else.) Promise me. Commit. 1 day. 1 day to scare the shit out of them that they don't get to follow the bullshit executive orders. They don't get to be cowards. If they do, it costs. It costs.
Then, if you can join me for Phase 2. March 7 2025 thtough March 14 2025? No Amazon. None. 1 week. No orders. Not a single item. Not one ebook. Nothing. 1 week. Just 1.
If you live outside the USA boycott US products on February 28 2025 and stand in solidarity with us and also join us for the week of no Amazon.
Are you with me?
Spread the word.
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When Donald Trump reentered office, one of his first calls to action was to end several DEI initiatives in the federal government.
'This won't work, this isn't widespread, nobody knows, we're in a bubble, blah blah blah' my mom, a 64 year old lady with no social media whose first language is spanish, told me about this before tumblr did, and said we are going to participate.
I've seen flyers for this in real life. Do it.
I used to be so smart. I was so clever and I was so capable of engaging in discussions and spinning ideas out with people and considering concepts and comprehending hypotheticals I was so SMART I was so GOOD AT WORDS I could put words together for hours and I didn't run out of them. I didn't know more things but I could think... I could think. I had space inside for so many thoughts and concepts. I was so clever
[ID person with a pan labeled "chronic illness" using it to bash another pan, labeled "mental health" and held upright. The first pan absolutely flattens the second one, curling in on itself with each hit, until it is quickly rolled and unusable]
Sleepy after the first day of con... #minkface https://www.instagram.com/p/BzhRxfbF0sN/?igshid=19t53zn86ndee
Pox n Dak! #minkface #cvg2019 #neoscum @neoscum #pox #dakrambo https://www.instagram.com/p/Bzg6KqfloGF/?igshid=1e5vqmt5cd472
The sleepy boy on my pillows (he's snoring rn) #smallfry #minkface #catsofinstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/BzDxc6gHRhs/?igshid=qqbvppdxtout
Guess where I am! #minkface https://www.instagram.com/p/Bx3vS19leEc/?igshid=6nnqeqiewf0o
I had been planning on trying to sew some things tonight, but we can see what the cats thought of that idea.... #ittybittywitchykitty #smallfry https://www.instagram.com/p/BwVtgADF31g/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=2n16h893em8p
New colors who dis #colorbycrust #hairbycrust #curlsbycrust #revoltinglocks @revoltinglocks #pravana #pravanavivids #pravanaviolet #alsoblueandgreen #evenifyoucantseethemwell #bcmyphonehatespurple #nofilter https://www.instagram.com/p/Bv768Y4Fb60/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=25izk9pskz84
This is what happens when I try to work from home... #smallfry #ittybittywitchykitty #thatsmylap: #withacatononekneeandlaptopontheother https://www.instagram.com/p/Bv5A23VFCEv/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=wz0uxiyt5xsd
Selfie with boy child #minkface #smallfry https://www.instagram.com/p/Bv29IWIF22u/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=s3ni9n6cmrai
Anniversary pie!! #food #davethepieguy https://www.instagram.com/p/BuhCk5ilkVK/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1frq9zdvdp43j
Classic femme spoonie trick: when you feel like shit, dress to intimidate so no one will talk to you #minkface #gothgoth #spoonielife https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt881ryAtdM/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=zbug2e07ibrm
