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“We chose the term “asexual” to describe ourselves because both “celibate” and “anti-sexual” have connotations we wished to avoid: the first implies that one has sacrificed sexuality for some higher good, the second that sexuality is degrading or somehow inherently bad. “Asexual”, as we use it, does not mean “without sex” but “relating sexually to no one”. This does not, of course, exclude masturbation but implies that if one has sexual feelings they do not require another person for their expression. Asexuality is, simply, self-contained sexuality.”

Note the date, people:

That’s 1972

29 years before AVEN was started online,

and 47 years before the present.

And that’s only the date that Manifesto was written, so asexuals as members of a community must have existed at least some time before that.

So, no: we are not just Tumblr trenders. Get out of here with that.

supporting my asexual friends and foes by rebbloging this

It’s 50 years this month since the first version of the Asexual Manifesto was written. Aces have been writing about our experiences under this name for at least half a century. We are not an internet fad.

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i-say-ok

ok!!!

This one is pissing me off because there’s cheese in it. I’m not sure there’s a period of Chinese dynastic history wherein the type of dudes likely to be having rap battles would also have been familiar with hard cheese. There’d be political fucking implications to that. Fermented dairy products were often seen as uncivilized foods, and were associated in particular with northern “barbarian” cuisine (see: <lactose intolerance in Eurasia>), whereas competitive poetry was viewed as a civilized and scholarly pastime appropriate to civil servants and courtiers. Mentioning cheese in a verse which also references the heavens could be seen as an effort to legitimize the presence of these dangerous foreign elements within Chinese society, and, thus, as seditious. If dairy were to become a common theme in rap battles, it might be viewed as a dangerous sign of poor morale and defeatist thinking among the literati. “Emperor, we have got to move the capital to the south. The scholars are rapping about cheese. It’s all falling apart.”

Now this is a fucking post

Okay but doesn’t this legitimize the use of cheese as a derogatory tool in this verse?

Because the whole point is that the wife of the opponent is bad and stupid. If cheese is babaric, then doesn’t it make perfect sense to demean her by claiming she loves it so much she wears it all over AND inflicts it on the heavens, committing a transgression inconceivable to anyone with even the tiniest speck of good taste?

Doesnit delegitimize the verse or does it mean the writer went even harder than we expected?

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demilypyro

the Futurama reboot is on so many levels of irony and "self-awareness" that it's hard to even make fun of it for being disingenuous. it's already making fun of itself for making fun of itself for being disingenuous.

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cyberbun

always funny when i see people talking abt the nijika dorito image manipulation in relation to how Bizarre and Unhinged bocchi fans are considering the big Nijika meme in Japan is sticking her head on deer for no conceivable reason