#twogiraffesapproaching

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Finally got to opening our presents from the wedding party. Someone gave us a ghost costume from Zara Home

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scartissuesoul replied to your photo “Alice found another Viking. She really hates vikings. (No sarcasm) So...”

I don't understand, why do you hate vikings?

Heya ~ sorry about never getting back to you until now.

First off, that’s my gf, @twogiraffesapproaching who hates vikings.

A week ago she went on a trip with the school she works at. It was at a sort of viking theme park where kids had to pretend to live in “the viking age”. This meant living under extremely sexist circumstances (not to mention situations that would be very uncomfortable for trans kids), where the girls had to cook food and do reproductive work basically while boys were made to play with tin casting and “explore the world”.

One thing to keep in mind is, this is in Denmark, and there never was a “viking age” in Denmark. The “danish viking age” is a made up concept conceived in the 1800-hundreds as a nationalist project. But that didn’t stop the theme park from giving girls at the school a terrible experience and normalize sexism “because they had to experience how things were back then”. And then of course there’s the whole problem of teaching kids fake history.

I am more sour about historical revisionism, straightwashing of norse mythology and the idead of “a danish viking age”. I don’t hate the idea of vikings as a whole, (although there’s also a ton of macho bullshit that has been constructed into that word in itself.) Regardless I respect my girlfriends’ feelings and they’re valid and backed up by a whole lot of actual shitty things that are going on in Denmark. Such as neonazis and other folks with toxic masculinities really loving the idea of super macho vikings.

Well. Hope that was a mostly legible explanation. And thanks for asking. :-)

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vombastic replied to your post “Get this: Adrian Lloyd Hughes insulted my girlfriend yesterday - I’m...”

What the what? What did he say?

“Are you a child?” when she asked if people would help me and her out since we got the wrong seats. Interestingly enough, his date knew her and was trying to start friendly conversation at the same time of him being rude.

From what people say I get the impression that he doesn’t like women in LGBT spaces, because he thinks lesbians are taking the queer scene away from gay men.

Others say that he’s just rude and odd in general.

It’s making me wonder if I’ve been laughing about sarcastic or crude joke he made on his TV-shows, and he’s actually been serious about what he is saying all this time and everybody just thinks he’s a goofball until they get to meet him in a cinema or share an office with him like one of my other unfortunate friends.

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Me and my favourite boo are going to be on national television tomorrow morning. Probably for something like 8 minutes.

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David Bowie and a dog painted on wood. By Alice Minor (@twogiraffesapproaching)

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I am at a karaoke party and I am drunk. Someone is singing "I did it my way" and life is good.

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I showed Alice Sunstone yesterday and now she's obsessed. First thing she did waking up today was to boot the laptop up and continue reading. Maybe I'll have to make breakfast for her. Also, Alice is so much Lisa.

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My girlfriend is sooo hardcore. She won't let me brag about what she did yesterday, though.