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[roguefundagelical]

Deconstructing Superman and God

Deconstructing Superman and God

A long time ago, back in the mid-’80s, I took a university class called “The American Character.” It was part of the Liberal Studies program. (The first of four majors I would go through.) I remember writing a paper about how our Judeo-Christian values appeared in American pop culture. I compared the Superman mythos to that of Jesus. I wasn’t the first person to notice the similarities between…

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[princesssarisa]

Some last thoughts about the “Game of Thrones” finale

It’s strange that I’m so riled up about a show I never even watched, but I am.

I saw a positive review of the final episode that defended Daenerys’s outcome. Like so many reviews, it praised the show’s longtime tradition of “subverted expectations.” It praised Daenerys’s deconstruction of the tropes of “returning rightful ruler,” “noble conqueror” and “white savior,” as others have. But then it also praised the ending for subverting the trope of “Girl Power fantasy.”

That annoyed me.

Not all subverted expectations are created equal.

It’s one thing to subvert the trope of “the rightful ruler returns.” It’s good to raise questions about the nature of a “rightful ruler.” It’s also well and good to deconstruct the trope of the noble conqueror and especially of the white savior. Those tropes are problematic and deserve to be deconstructed. If Daenerys’s downward spiral were played out by a male character, it would mostly be fine.

But how is it good to deconstruct a “Girl Power fantasy”? Didn’t that critic realize why Girl Power fantasies hold the appeal they do? It’s because traditionally, girls have had too little power. It’s because so many women and girls today feel the patriarchy’s feet in their faces.

Imagine if a story like Daenerys’s were played out by a black man. One who at the beginning is totally marginalized and abused by white people in a very racialized way, but who claws his way to power, triumphs over his enemies, saves other marginalized people, and seems poised for the ultimate glory. But then the weight of all the trauma he’s faced crushes his psyche, and he gives in to his “violent instincts” and becomes a mass-murderer. In the end, a white person “saves the world” by killing him and then another white person takes over his position of power.

Would anyone dare praise that storyline for “deconstructing the cliché of the virtuous minority underdog”?

How can some people not realize the ugly implications of tearing down a Girl Power fantasy?

[somenerdthing]

[somenerdthing]

[american-evangelicalism]

The Marriage of the Century: Christian Nationalism & Anti-Intellectualism

[innocentnostalgia4]

Taking an image i saw on the tube and decontructing it and redrawing it using different methods. Abstract, minimal, reversed colour, left hand etc. This is a really good exercise to explore different ways of working.

[owningmatt93]

Improving Tiresome Anime Debates — A Response to Irina

I wrote a short response to @Irina_the_Great's article about Anime Debates and how we can improve age-old debates into something better! Please give it (and the original article) a read!

In the past five years of being a blogger and almost eight years of being an anime watcher, I’ve personally seen a lot of discourse and discussion over a variety of topics from plenty of angles – opinionated and factual alike. There are always those debates, though, that continuously circle back around after some time again and again, almost as if they are scheduled to appear once a few months…

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[shug-the-gawd]

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