shit, sorry, I'll delete that post right away. I didn't know he was a mythologist at all, let alone that he was infamous for positing a "universal" narrative structure that reduces a variety of works and storytelling traditions to variations on a single Jungian theme regardless of whether their actual contents line up with his thesis. I only knew about his work with Canned Soups.
can we just have, like, any feminist movement whatsoever. did everyone just stop caring?
feminism became a declawed commodified marketable trend and then trends changed and everyone just decided to pretend we won feminism despite nothing changing? despite things actively getting worse? is that what happened?
maybe it's just because I've been having these conversations for too long but sometimes watching a youtube video essayist analyse something is kind of like watching a third-grader run through their times tables. it's like... yes, very good, that's all true! so... what now...
"the 'clean girl' thing is not actually about cleanliness and hygiene, but instead requires artifical measures such as makeup to achieve"
sure. why is this video 30 minutes long.
I will open the fucking TikTok app just to watch this video multiple times
TIKTOKER: I swear to God, no one tickles my testicles more than the people of my own fucking country. Okay, so like WHAT HAPPENED was this year, this summer, I was in Korea. And I linked up with a homie that I haven't met in a long time, just catching up. "Oh my God, how are you? You GRADUATED? That's insane, where do you work!?" Whatever. Okay.
So there was a conversation about like, food and preferences. So I just asked him! I just asked him: (in Korean, pronoucing "asparagus" as a Korean loan word) "Hey, when you eat steak, do you put asparagus?"
(in English) And this BITCH. He looks at me DEAD STRAIGHT IN THE FUCKING EYES. Has the AUDACITY to just.... degrade, I guess! Ask me: (in Korean) "HAH! Hey, aren't you from America? Why are you calling it (emphasizing the Korean pronunciation of asparagus) ASPARAGUS?"
(in English, in an exaggerated stereotypical American accent) OH, I'M SORRY. I'M SORRY! Am I supposed to say ASS-PARA-GUSS? ASS-PARA-GUSS? DO I GO (says his question again in Korean, but breaks up the flow of the speech by pronouncing all the loan words with American pronunciation).
IT FUCKS THE FLOW!!! WHY ARE YOU BITCHING!? I'M TRYING TO HELP YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT I'M TRYING TO SAY! YOU MONOLINGUAL FUCK!!!!
saying this as a trans man, i feel like at least half of this so called "fear of masculinity" in queer spaces other trans mascs talk about is just them no longer being treated like women
like they'll say shit like "im no longer trusted to be alone with some girls" or any other dubious situation and its like. yes. we had a whole movement around how men as a social class are routinely encouraged to disrespect boundaries and hurt those patriarchy considers beneath them just a few years ago. but now we're unironically bringing back #notallmen i guess
enough about taylor swift already. reblog and tag the smallest, least known artist you listen to
if y'all don't shut up about that woman and put on gasolina by daddy yankee.......
Turn around bright eyes EVERY NOW AND THEN I FALL APART!!
the whole point of a zine is that it's cheap to produce, amateur and homemade. if you're being asked to apply to participate in a print project, it is not a zine. if the final product is being printed and bound professionally, it is not a zine. if you are being asked to enter into any kind of licensing agreement more complex than "my work can be reproduced as part of this publication" it is not a zine. nine times put of ten if the final product costs more than $5 you have left zine country. im so serious about this.
Being transgender is really funny because in my head I'm my brother's...well, brother. But I'm his sister now! And that's both fascinating and also really weird. Because my relationship with him for like 22 years was based on being his "brother" and now that's weird because it'd be untrue to say that I am. I like the idea of being his sister though; it's exciting! I'm a woman now! But it also feels weird to me to think of being a sister in place of a brother. Maybe it's not that being a sister is new. Maybe I'm a girl but I'm still his brother? Maybe I'm a very brotherly-sister. It feels very "Am I a Man or A Muppet" sometimes, haha.
I am my brother's sister. But I was also his brother! And I don't want to abandon that; I LIKE being his brother. Maybe I can still be both.
we need more lesbians guys
Misunderstood assignment. I made lesbian guys
no this is good we can do a lot with this. We could change the world with this
never let being a girl stop you from being a boy
