mythicalfawn

hey it’s just me, no need to celebrate my beloved bestie: @beanzelbub support my friend!: becca's redbubble my sideblogs!: my jjk-specific sideblog: @tblr-sexymans-ex-wife my orv-specific sideblog: @indescribabledistance 22 - she/her

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[faxcollector]

thinking too deeply about a thirty-second interaction below the cut (or: I saw a gifset of "the phantom of the pitt" scene and had thoughts about the pitt and how it represents intersectionality)

one thing I've come to find interesting and compelling in media in recent years is stories that portray the intersection of privilege and disadvantage and how a person can have privilege in one context and face disadvantage in another. I just saw a gifset of the "phantom of the pitt" scene and it's one of those moments from the pitt that I appreciate for capturing a complicated dynamic: on one hand you have joy kwon, an asian american woman in a field dominated by white men, who has undoubtedly faced a combination of racism and misogyny throughout her career, and you also have dennis whitaker, a white guy in the aforementioned field that favors and uplifts white men. but you also see how joy repeating the "phantom of the pitt" joke cuts whitaker to the bone: his face falls as soon as he realizes the reason the med students know about him is because he was homeless and the means by which he survived is funny to them.

joy faces disadvantages based on her race and gender, but based on that joke we learn that she has blinders on when it comes to joking about socioeconomic status, and despite the privileges whitaker enjoys as a white man he still faces profound disadvantages as someone who evidently comes from a lower socioeconomic class in a field where he's surrounded by people who are, for the most part, pretty well-off—or at least for whom joking about homelessness is funny because the possibility of being homeless is so remote to them. we see those complications existing within whitaker's character as well: in season one he's homeless and still makes an inaccurate assumption about a fellow unhoused person based on his status as a previous drug user, because whitaker lives in a society that hates homeless people so he's ingested two decades of anti-homeless narratives that he can't quite shake even though he's homeless himself.

this is one of the things I really, really like about the pitt, and imo one of the reasons the online discourse around it is so bad. it challenges viewers to consider multiple facets of characters to consider that they can be right in one context and wrong in another, both experiencing and perpetuating discrimination at different times. you have mckay constantly advocating for female patients in vulnerable situations and then turning around and perpetuating fatphobia against a female patient. you have javadi correcting a misgendering error in a trans patient's chart and being visibly uncomfortable with mckay because she wears an ankle monitor. robby goes to bat for vulnerable populations all the time and he's still a patronizing asshole to some of his female colleagues. the list goes on! pretty much none of the principal characters fit easily into the dichotomy of "victim" and "victimizer" that has become a popular shortcut for understanding right and wrong in media in online discourse and I think that's why the pitt has been such a lightning rod, and also why I find it so goddamn compelling

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[amygdalae]

sorry I say weird shit sometimes I’m just so excited to be alive

[iicor]

when a moot changes their pfp i feel like a baby whose dad shaved his beard

[ddeck]

as always happy pride to people that are not out. happy pride to people that dont plan to come out any time soon. happy pride to people for whom it is not safe to be out. happy pride to people that live in a homophobic environment and happy pride to people from countries that criminalize queerness

[blackpyrefly]

I heard another video game is coming out soon

this has to stop

[gaygoatshane]

happy pride

[souperluminal]

05.28 - Nebula

[malinaa]

what if we all explode

[derring-do]

This very production of Orpheus & Eurydice is now available to stream, free, for the month of June.

[lilyblisslys]

me with the. When she. When her. When the she her me

[mollyjames]

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[isawken]

my clown girl alterego? you mean my funsona

[picsthatmakeyougohmm]

[localapparently]

yoo han and kim things.. doodles for soul repair

[localapparently]

june has arrived

[paperruins]

you need to make more self-indulgent art btw. hyper-specific self-indulgent niche shit that appeals to You Specifically and maybe nobody else will get it or even like it but that's the point.

[disgruntledbabysocialist]

but my niche stuff is too niche for anyone else to like it ):

[paperruins]

if evolution said that, we'd have stayed as prokaryotic cells forever. fuck what everyone else thinks. your joy is reason enough.