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otherorr

hark, let him be christened Dolby Digital Hoagie

anxietyproblem

my-urdu-soul

by Akhil Katyal

macrolit

“Every human being has paid the earth to grow up. Most people don’t grow up. It’s too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That’s the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don’t grow up. Not really. They grow older. But to grow up costs the earth, the earth. It means you take responsibility for the time you take up, for the space you occupy. It’s serious business. And you find out what it costs us to love and to lose, to dare and to fail. And maybe even more, to succeed. What it costs, in truth.”

— Maya Angelou (1928-2014) American poet, memoirist, activist

lakefama

i love working with my wife on our gay comedy passion projects because we enter a loop of feeding each other’s unhinged lunacy

femmeharlequin-deactivated20240

I wanna like Tangled but it’s hard to get over the fact that they went “hm our villain stole a baby to maintain her youth… let’s make her Jewish coded :)” and the only people who spoke up about it were other Jews everyone else is like “it’s just a movie who cares if she has curly black hair and a Jewish nose that gets more pronounced and hooked when she’s revealed to be evil”

strawbabywine

I thought she was Italian

femmeharlequin-deactivated20240

Really?

magnetothemagnificent

All the way down to her Germanic-sounding name (Gothel), I'm surprised (not really) that it's only Jews who notice this. Like, yes, here's this Jewish-coded character who kidnaps a child with noticeably "Aryan" features in order to maintain her youth (literally this is Blood Libel), and yet people see no issue at all like....

femmessias

honest question: if non-jewish people don‘t identify this as being apparently jewish-coded, is it problematic? like if non-jewish people don‘t make the connection it would be a rly bad try at anti-semitic propaganda.

honeygordo

It's not "apparently" Jewish coded it is. And yes it's bad even if gentiles don't look at Gothel and recognize her as a Jewish woman because it can still ingrain a certain idea in your mind about what people who look like her are like.

Goyishe kids probably aren't going to look at her and recognize her Jewish features as Jewish, but they'll recognize her features and the features of other Jewish coded villains in the faces of real life Jewish people. That's what propaganda is. It's not in your face, it's subconscious

feefal

Dreaming of steep mountains and starry skies✨

alicentsgf

Things the americanised internet thinks is cute:

Dark Academia (photos of white kids in fancy uniforms at british private schools/redbrick universities)

Cottagecore (loads of photos of upper/middle class british gardens, houses, and villages)

British period dramas (literally just members of the gentry/nobility wafting around looking elegant)

Things the americanised internet thinks is funny and/or gross:

the british working class accent (notably the Multicultural London English dialect)

'chavs'

any british poverty food - baked beans on toast, cheap cut pies, chip butties, etc

pretty much any british regional accent (i know you cant understand louis from one direction pls just shut up about it. the upper class monopolises the media and arts so naturally you're more used to their accent)

when british people have bad teeth (dental care is not covered by the NHS and many working-class people cannot afford care out-of-pocket)

that the national dish is a curry. even though its a specific dish created (or at the very least heavily adapted) in the UK by the British Bangladeshi community? I lose my shit over this one. Like seriously the way you guys talk sometimes its like you think 'british' is synonomous with 'white'. You can't just erase entire communities to fit your narrative. I won't get too much into the racial aspects of all of these points but it's important to note jamaican, african, and south asian immigrants have brought a lot to british working class culture specifically. Like... you guys think its bad that they continued to enjoy their own cuisine and share it with the people around them once they got here? I swear some of you go so far with cultural appropriation you come right back around to 'everyone should go back where they came from'.

I understand most of you aren't surrounded by the cultural framework to understand how classist you sound talking about modern britain, but you are not immune to british propaganda just because you do not live here, in fact you're probably less immune as you (somewhat understandably) do not have the cultural knowledge to notice the red flags. But ignorance isn't a good enough reason to propogate classism thoughtlessly. I'm not saying you can't engage with elements of cottagecore or dark academia, but you definitely can't put repackaged aspects of middle and upper class british culture on a pedestal and then shit on all the aspects associated with the working class its so blatantly fucked up. Theres a good reason a lot of British people get so touchy about strangers on the internet mocking the rhotic british accents, americans just don't understand it because class-specific accent privilege doesn't exist within your cultural framework in the same way. You clearly all decided British people can't take a joke, but honestly it's just you're being a lot more offensive than you realise.

Do you not see how deeply wrong it is that so many of you seem to enjoy the superior feeling you get from trampling another culture? You guys will straight-up whitewash britain just so you don't feel guilty about it. You clearly think you're punching up but you're not, being british does not ensure affulence or 'whiteness' any more than being american does, and whenever any of you goes to say anything about Britain in a non-historical context all that comes out is pure classist ignorance as you leave middle/upper class britain absoloutely untouched. So educate yourselves, please. Working-class americans have more in common with working-class brits than they do anyone above them on the social ladder in the US.

autumnimagining

people think the national dish of britain is a curry?

invisible-goats

Chicken Tikka Masala is often referred to as the national dish of Britain, created by a Balgladeshi chef in Glasgow

amuseoffyre

The accent thing is especially irksome since - for decades - the BBC wouldn’t let anyone with a regional accent speak on it, unless they were in a sitcom and their dialect/accent was part of the joke, which meant all British media sounded almost exactly the same for years.

Even now, there are regional actors who have to adopt RP English if they want to get work. David Tennant is a prime example of this - most of the time, he doesn’t get to use his own accent.

As a perfect comparison, here’s a clip of Steptoe and Son, a double-act from a sitcom in the 60s:

And here is what the actors sound like when speaking as themselves to the Beeb media:

zonnesproetje

For M, Mikko Harvey

(i keep seeing only the last quote of this poem so i wanted to share the whole thing)

12thh

i am a hater but i am also cute and nice and sweet

boeing747

What is it that they put in blonde men that makes them so deranged

mizoguchi

He was a master storyteller, and a master baby whisperer, having rocked my 7 month old to sleep in the middle of shooting our episode of @PartsUnknownCNN in #Gaza. I wasn’t sure what to expect of him, but upon first setting foot in Gaza where we met, the first thing he said to me was that he was absolutely dumbfounded at what he’d witnessed in the West Bank and Jerusalem. “That is something seriously (expletive) up. And one has to see it to believe it. I told the Israelis-you are not gonna like the cake you’re baking-it’s only a matter of time before it implodes.” He also later confided to me that the episode almost didn’t air “We fought like hell, though, to tell the stories we did–best we could tell them and I’m, on balance pretty happy-though definite reservations. In any event, all the right people are infuriated.” The Peabody Awards describes him best when they said “He (was) irreverent, honest, curious, never condescending, never obsequious.” RIP @Bourdain

Laila El-Haddad, author of Gaza Kitchen and Gaza Mom, who was featured in the Parts Unknown: Jerusalem episode (x)

handsworthsongs

“Unlike many journalists and foreign visitors who had crossed my path while working as a field producer, Anthony Bourdain did not once put me or anyone I introduced him to in a position to ‘explain’ our humanity. A man of few words, he embodied what it means to ‘just be there’ and be witness to someone’s painful experience without having to provide trivial sympathies or sprinkle salt on wounds still open. […]

In Arabic we say that hearts are the homes of secrets; some secrets love to torment us and some stay with us until we die. We also say that a life that gives is a life that never ends. That is small consolation to Islam and to me and to so many others who are forever touched and changed by Anthony Bourdain’s wild and daring life.

Tony, we send you love in your transition. You once confided, ‘I wish I didn’t have to leave all the time.’ I hope your feet find their grounding in the other realm.”

—Vivien Sansour, who was Anthony Bourdain’s field coordinator and guide in Palestine, in “Anthony Bourdain’s visit to Palestine changed lives,” 2018.