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Like I hate to say it but if you can’t engage with any media without descending into full-on fandom-style shipping at the expense of the themes, characterization, non-romantic relationships, and general content of the work. You might need to take a step back from shipping and maybe fandom in general. (Also to the people in the notes of this post who are acting like I said shipping in general is terrible: What this post is saying is that if you interact with all media exclusively through a shipping lens you miss a lot of stuff. I’m not saying don’t ship things, I’m saying use your critical thinking skills.)
some of you can’t imagine a way to engage with media that isn’t projecting your insecurities onto a character you share an archetypal similarity with and shipping them with a character that best fits your ideal partner and it shows
Was driving with my grandmother and in broken English she says “no eyes… no nose… no face. Don’t trust.” To which I looked around wildly in search of this omen of ill portend.
Why is Britain so ridiculously transphobic? I thought it was just Rowling and Lineham's rhetoric that inflated that perception but so many of the average English people I've met are terfs by default.
My dude, Britain is the original culture-hating settler colonial empire. The US, Canada, Israel, Germany, Japan, they're just kids paddling around the splash pool compared to England.
If they were officially counted as genocides as they should be, the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade and the Genocide of the Native Americans would make the Holocaust look like a pressure cooker bomb.
People have this idea in their head that Imperial nations of yore who stopped doing Imperialism (officially) experienced some kind of turnaround morally. But that's only ever been the case for Germany because we built 20 fucking museums as a permanent mark of shame. And those museums aren't even dedicated to all the people Germany killed, just the third of them that America gave a shit about.
We don't do that for any other Empire's wrongdoings. We don't have a hundred memorials to Unit 737, Nanjing, the Slave Trade, the genocide of the Natives, or the Rape of Africa. It's not mandatory education for elementary school students all around the world.
We did not put the other empires through the same state-sanctioned prolonged shaming that we put Germany through. The attitude toward Germany has always carried an undercurrent of "They're still in time out, and they know why!" from people whose Empires have committed far worse sins.
Britain didn't even have to give back all the shit they stole from their museum. I don't know why you expected that "damn dirty weirdos and their weird shit that's not like us" shit to ever change. This is the nation that enforced this gender binary on the entire world in the first place.
If you could point to the biggest culprit of why TV sucks now, what would it be?
The obsession with "filler."
People are obsessed with 'cutting out the filler' by getting rid of character focused episodes and fun divergences and getting right to the plot.
The problem is you're not cutting out "filler."
You're cutting out the meat and potatoes of the show.
If you've ever said "This episode is filler" you're a moron whose opinions have directly contributed to the enshittification of TV by giving producers a blank check to write garbage.
I don't understand Potterheads. Why do they always freak out so badly over the idea that they can't enjoy Wizard book anymore?
A lot of pop culture commentary after the break. But the short version is that it's not enough for them to just watch their crappy wizard show and have people leave them alone about it, they want it to still be a good thing.
The thing about Harry Potter is that it wasn't just a popular series of books. It wasn't "A Song of Ice and Fire" or "The Hunger Games" popular. It was Pokemania popular.
It's hard to get people who are irony-poisoned to understand this, but back in the 90's and early 2000's, Harry Potter was massively celebrated. It was the only "good" thing you could be really into as a millennial kid without getting sneered at by every adult around you because it was literature. It wasn't a cartoon, anime or video game. It wasn't Pokemon or Sailor Moon, or some other dumb thing your parents didn't understand.
It was reading. It was the series that was teaching kids to love reading.
Just look at how thick Order of the Phoenix is
People were watching their nine year old children pick that up and finish it in a week. People really thought this was going to revive the love of reading that English class was trying to slowly and painfully euthanize.
What this meant is you got Good Girl and Good Boy points for being into Harry Potter. This was the positive fandom to be in if you wanted to make your teachers happy because they thought it would make kids love reading again.
Of course, kids really into Harry Potter generally didn't read anything else. I have a lot of theories as to why, but that's a whole other post.
Also, Harry Potter was often associated with being progressive. Not for any actually progressive merits but because a lot of the right-wing really hated it because it had witchcraft in it. You can kinda see why millennial progressiveness for a long time was "make the right mad" as opposed to actually doing anything progressive.
So Harry Potter was considered this massively positive thing for a very long time. And when products are associated with leftism, people tie their leftism into it and react extremely badly when it gets re-examined and has that Certified Positive sticker taken away.
Now this thing is no longer positive or normal. And that really breaks the brains of a lot of people of every generation. Boomers do this, Gen X does this, Zoomers' entire generational identity is this, there's always something. You have to press 1 for English.
It's not enough for them to be able to live the way they want, they also want to feel normal. They want to walk around and see that most other people have made the choice that they made. And if over time they see their personal preference has become less popular, they interpret that as a criticism of themselves.
This is why diehard Steven Universe fans are such angry, vicious, bitter little cocksuckers. Because instead of being "normal" to like a universally beloved cartoon, they're now "weird" for being obsessed with a show that most people moved on from the instant it ended.
This is why Zoomers are losing their mind over Gen Alpha embracing absurdism, because their entire identity is in being "hip young and cool" and they're realizing how short-lived that position in pop culture is.
This is why some people are obsessed with who is "out of touch" or "off base" or who is a "weirdo." This is the attitude behind anyone who does drama content or goes on Kiwi Farms. Deep social outcasts who desperately need someone they can imagine is worse so they can feel normal.
Being an outcast is very scary to someone who has always been a vicious little jizzrag to outcasts.
Now I need to be clear: This is not a defense of any of this. You can always choose not to be like this. This obsession with being normal and not being "weird" is the same thing as FOMO: This is a personal failing brought on by deep emotional immaturity and there is no cure for it other than to get over yourself.
You can't blame capitalism or propaganda for this, YOU are the one who has refused to grow up and learn to mind your own business and you think everyone else is as emotionally stunted and bitchy as you are.
TL;DR - It's not enough to just enjoy their mediocre crap quietly, they desperately need it to still be a good and normal thing.
I really hate when people try to use "its a fetish" as a criticism. Firstly because something being sex should be a neutral fact rather than a political stance or whatever. But mostly because fucking everything is a fetish.
If someone said that they wear socks because their feet are cold it would be insane to call them a pervert for it because foot fetishes exist.
The Internet has poisoned people to think everything is about sex 100% of the time, to the point that physical comedy or gross out humor just isn't allowed to happen anymore because some irony poisoned dipstick will say it's fetish material.
Is there any reason why femboys are more accepted than trans women?
They're not. One is vilified, the other is made into a sex object. These are not opposites. It reinforces the concept that you are not allowed to exist outside of being an object of sexual pleasure for cis society.
Hence when you try to exist in public, your existence alone is an act of sexual predation.
Maybe this is just poorly understood right now because the internet is currently in a phase where people get really self-righteous about their gooning, but masturbating to someone is not the same thing as accepting them as people.
Guys will watch lesbian porn one minute and then heckle sapphic women in public the next minute, and this is not a contradiction.
White supremacist men are completely and utterly obsessed with cuckoldry, and this is not a contradiction.
Homophobic men are really into femboys, and this is not a contradiction.
Nobody searches trans porn more than transphobes. Nobody thinks about a trans girl's penis more than JK Rowling. This is not a contradiction.
"You exist for my pleasure. Nothing else. You don't get to exist as a person, you are an object that exists for my satisfaction."
Sexual fixation is not the opposite of bigotry, it is the source.
I love that you swear and touch on contentious topics. Not because I'm edgy, but because it's obnoxious as hell trying to enjoy content that WANTS to do these things, but is too afraid of "The Algorithm", so you end up with stuff like
"He had consumed a lot of schmalcohol and tried to unalive the shark, but it bit off his schmenis and he unalived from blood loss."
The funny part of that is that all of that is a myth. The Youtube Algorithm doesn't work that way, and has never worked that way. People just saw low views on TikTok and blamed "shadowbanning" instead of the more likely answers of "Your videos sucked" or "the algorithm is random."
It's the one Jimquisition video that I find is completely braindead, "How Youtube Coerced Its Way Into Rewriting Our Language." No it didn't. The users did that entirely on their own, based on things that just are not true.
It's another one of those manufactured consent fallacies. People blame the platform for things the users did on their own.
This is why "a better alternative to Twitter" is never coming. If everyone leaves Twitter for a new site, that new site is the new Twitter because the users are the reason Twitter is the way it is.
Considering most crimes towards children, especially sexual abuse and kidnapping, are done by relatives/trusted adults, why was stranger danger hammered into children’s brains growing up?
To make it look like something was being done without targeting the sacred "parents rights" that enabled the abuse in the first place.
