I'm sorry if I've ever wokescolded you. If I've wokescolded you, you may be entitled to financial compensation
as a general rule. if what we’re calling ‘cultural appropriation’ sounds like nazi ideology (i.e. ‘white people should only do white people things and black people should only do black people things’) with progressive language, we are performing a very very poor application of what ‘cultural appropriation’ means. this is troublingly popular in the blogosphere right now and i think we all need to be more critical of what it is we may be saying or implying, even unintentionally.
The results of study after study point to social media inhibiting attention span and worsening mental illness symptoms, and half the people on this website will hear that and say, “Okay, boomer. Anyways, I haven’t read a book since I was fourteen, and starting a new TV show on Netflix gives me a panic attack.”
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Inhibiting attention span huh?
But like isn’t that more on how fast we’re used to having things like instant search results and fast wifi rather than social media???
Lmao lower attention span *looks at the multiple multichapter fan fics and I’ve read within one binge read* *looks at the multiple 2 hour drama documentaries I’ve listened to*
It’s not that we can’t read anything longer than a paragraph it’s that I choose not to read long things that don’t interest me
You’re right. Researchers are lying. They’re just trying to hide the truth that stories where Mario has sex with Charizard is inherently more interesting than actual books. It couldn’t possibly be that your attention span is so damaged that you’ll only engage with material that features characters and situations you already know, not to mention the blocks of warnings that tell you absolutely everything that will happen in the story. You got them. It’s a big conspiracy to keep Margaret Atwood in a job. She’s just too old to learn what AO3 is.
There’s no text so fiendish and manipulative that it’s too dangerous to read. Comparing works from opposing viewpoints is a standard scholastic practice. Critical readings and analyses of material one finds objectionable in whole or in part is kind of what academia is, you know? The slickest, most well-written propaganda can be dissected. “Know your enemy”? Anybody? Anybody?
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If you find yourself around sentiments like, “Our enemy is too dangerous for you to ‘know.’ You might be contaminated by bad ideas; knowledge is therefore forbidden,” what you should do is leave, and quickly. Getting out is far easier before any border closings start.
I keep drinking hot coffee twice a day even though it's been like 85°F and above all week
a thoughtful user on tumblr dot com: please stop saying "death to all wasps"
me, a high-level bimbo: lol why does this person care if people bully white anglo-saxon protestants on the internet
Sunset a cat sleeping sheets sun drying - so serene, 30 seconds before I broke my film camera
It's so frustrating to hear arguments like these from people who claim to be progressive. Lulu Wang is implying that it is impossible for someone who is not Chinese to tell a competent story about a Chinese subject, that a filmmaker should only tell stories about their own nationality or ethnicity. It's a grotesque line of thinking.
Even if Ron Howard doesn't have an intimate knowledge of northeastern Chinese culture, he can certainly learn about it! Read books, make interviews, travel to the area, hire consultants. The subject of the film is an executive producer and fully supports the decision to hire Howard. Does his voice not matter?
Wang goes on to say that she has no interest in directing the film herself, so what was the point of saying that she's also a Chinese-born classically-trained pianist? It would be much more understandable if she just confessed that she's disappointed that she wasn't even considered for the opportunity, since the bulk of her work (which I'm not familiar with) deals with Chinese culture.
And finally she says that Mulan (2020) failed because the director is white. Mulan (1998) was directed by two white men and is considered one of the best animated films of all time. Niki Caro, the director of Mulan (2020), previously directed Whale Rider (2002) a formidable, critically-acclaimed film about a Māori family. Clearly, 2020 Mulan's shortcomings have nothing to do with Caro's ethnicity or an inherent lack of intercultural competency on her part.
For fuck's sake, this argument falls apart instantly when you consider that a straight Taiwanese man directed a beautiful love story about gay cowboys in rural Wyoming! And one about 19th century British gentry! And one about an Indian teenager who befriends a tiger!
There's a legitimate complaint about the lack of opportunity for Asian-American filmmakers in Hollywood buried somewhere underneath all this, but resorting to such a regressive argument to express that is obnoxious. I don't want to work in an industry where my capacity to tell certain stories is defined by my skin tone or where I was born.
Good afternoon to this film poster and this film poster only
I’ve got to tell you all about the hilarious journey this image in having on twitter.
1) First, many mistook it for being a historical romance, which is probably the fault of the wallpaper. I also thought this, but if you look closer he’s wearing a modern shirt and the fabric of her dress is polyester or nylon something.
2) Okay, people said. So this is a contemporary sexy femdom romance then? No. It’s some kind of psychological thriller, which nobody would have been able to tell from that poster.
3) This image is probably supposed to be scary? No one in it looks scared, at all?
4) Everyone promptly decided they didn’t care what the movie was actually about. They started writing inpromptu fanfic scenarios based solely on the poster in twitter. I fully expect the AO3 to have a “Cordelia (movie poster)” tag by the end of next week.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg
March 15th, 1933 - September 18th, 2020
"I would like to be remembered as someone who used whatever talent she had to do her work to the very best of her ability."
KEIYNAN LONSDALE Travis Chantar × Slippage Magazine › 2020
I refuse to reblog any donation posts or news stories that involve guilt-tripping lol
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Donald Trump announced today that he is adding another twenty candidates to potentially fill any vacancies on the Supreme Court. I’m sure everyone on this list is an awful human being and a danger to society, but I want to highlight three of these new candidates:
- Ted Cruz (49) — the Texas Senator who’s a notoriously anti-LGBT bigot, among other things.
- Tom Cotton (43) — the Arkansas Senator who described slavery as a necessary evil and (pictured above) made it immediately clear after the announcement was made that he would (1) attack women’s reproductive rights, (2) defend gun rights, and (3) protect the “right to worship” — which is just a smokescreen for denying queer people basic civil liberties and again denying women their right to choose under the veneer of “religious freedom.”
- Daniel Cameron (34) — the Kentucky Attorney General who has refused to press charges against the police officers who killed Breonna Taylor. He took over 150 days to even reach out to Taylor’s family after she was murdered.
Justice Ginsburg recently announced that she’s battling cancer — her and Justice Breyer, two of the only four remaining left-leaning justices on the court, are both in their 80s. If Trump is reelected, he will almost certainly be able to replace the two of them with far-right conservatives who will be a danger to minorities — and these men aren’t just dangerous because of their values, but because of their relatively young ages. You need to know that these are lifetime appointments to the Court and Cruz, Cameron, and Cotton have an average age of 42. Again, for context, RBG is 87 years old. Trump could singlehandedly guarantee a 7-2 conservative Supreme Court for decades to come, leaving lasting damage long after he leaves the White House — damage that will affect us, our children, and our children’s children.
This election is not the time for complacency. Almost 200,000 Americans have died because of our President’s incompetence. If he is reelected, I can’t even begin to fathom what could happen to our country. You need to vote this election and make sure that these monsters never find themselves in a position of such power. Vote for Biden.
You aren't just voting for President for the next four years. You're voting for judges for the next forty.
