My name is Miles Morales. I was bitten by a radioactive spider. And for like two days, I’ve been the one and only Spider-Man. I think you know the rest. ↳ SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE (2018)
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i dont care that im ugly. i just hope bernie sanders wons the preseidnecey
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who needs college.. when you have collage. who needs a father.. when you have dada. who needs new iphone. when you have modernism.
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Gays are only acceptable in the form of Soviet propaganda
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every time i see that last picture it completely baffles me as to what ELSE it could possibly be meant as does anyone know what the children are supposed to represent?
what a beautiful family
The argument Pinto makes is that the story and the doll normalize 24-hour surveillance in the mind of a child, which makes them susceptible to more passively accept police-state surveillance as adults.
“I don’t think the elf is a conspiracy and I realize we’re talking about a toy,” Pinto told The Post. “It sounds humorous, but we argue that if a kid is okay with this bureaucratic elf spying on them in their home, it normalizes the idea of surveillance and in the future restrictions on our privacy might be more easily accepted.”
It’s based in a theory that was developed by Jeremy Bentham and popularized by Michel Foucault in which students, prisoners, factory workers and others were thought to function better (for whatever value of better) in a system called a panopticon, in which an individual is potentially under surveillance 24-hours a day, but never actually KNOWS whether or not he or she is being surveilled.
Pinto said she’s not the first person to be troubled by Elf on the Shelf’s surveilling. She’s said parents routinely contact her to say they changed the rules of the game after it made their families uneasy. And many kids, she said, often intuitively feel like spying and being a tattletale is wrong.
“A mom e-mailed me and told me that the first day they read the elf book and put the elf out, her daughter woke up crying because she was being watched by the elf,” Pinto recounted. “They changed the game so it wouldn’t scare the child.”
In addition to the problem of normalizing surveillance in the mind of a child, this also forces the child into a situation where they never feel like they are free to simply be themselves; they are forced to be “on their best behavior” at all times, unable to relax and make mistakes and do the job of growing up and being a child, because they never know if the elf is spying on them, ready and waiting to report back to Santa Claus that they’ve been bad.
My co-worker got Elf on the Shelf for her four-year-old daughter last year, and was so freaked out by her daughter’s sudden and complete change in behaviour (uncharacteristically worried and anxious, while trying to be on her ‘best’ behaviour that she never kept up for family or at school) that she stuffed Elf in the garbage after a week, telling the daughter that the Elf had to go back to the North Pole to help Santa with Christmas.
Also read the paper linked above, it’s a good one.
I hate this entire concept so much.
This creepy bastard is making a popularity revival this year and I don’t think it’s coincidental.
SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE (2018)
Directed by Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman
Art Direction by Dean Gordon and Patrick O'Keefe
Aspect Ratio: 2.39:1
tumblr users will be like *gestures towards a bland housing development made in the 80s* god i hate brutalism
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other architectural styles: - fake - not gay - can’t skate on them because they’re made out of like wood or are simply boxes rising out of slab foundations
brutalism: - rad - unbelievably gay, with complex floorplans lending themselves towards secret cruising spots - aesthetic planar forms are eminently skateable
*young republican voice* i don’t see why my rich, rich, rich rich rich, rich rich rich rich, so fucking rich, father should have to pay for poorer boys school lunches. he could spend that money on a racism machine
