the way that liberals talk about communist revolutions without acknowledging what came before them is so shockingly deceptive. there are many real criticisms of the USSR but the hegemonically accepted way of talking about it is like if you complained that the fire department came to your house and soaked all your possessions in high-pressure water and hacked down your door and literally never acknowledged that before they arrived your house was on fucking fire
So I wanted more wood for Strawberry Ridge so I took my lopper and trimmed all the street trees in a block radius last week, which were either terribly overgrown, butchered by clueless trimming, or both.
Easier to ask forgiveness than permission, and anyway only one homeowner told me to stop. Like I say I can’t feel guilt or shame these days and I think it threw him that I cheerfully agreed.
Anyway, his tree still had leaves on and I guess they iced up because today I saw it lying in his driveway and he’d had to hire a crew on Christmas Eve to chop it up. I went down to say (Google translate bridging a language barrier) that they could dump their chipped load with me, and now the tree’s all on Strawberry Ridge.
You keep a lamp under your thermostat? Sure the bulb heat isn't messing with what temps it's reading?
I got that lamp this year, the temperature variation pattern has happened for several years and remains consistent whether the lamp is on or off all day. Anyway, the bulb’s not incandescent, it’s not even too hot to the touch.
Your LibsOfTikTok/Matt Walsh/even Wesley Yang types clearly operating off a memory of the “Moral Majority” 80s backlash in going after schools over trans stuff but there’s real differences.
The mainstream may have come out of the 70s practicing a “teenagers and gays should FUCK” ethic but they never really preached it as a congealed ideology, whereas there really had been a culturally conservative “sex should only be within male/female marriage” ideology the whole time.
In contrast today, as libs enjoy pointing out, the lumpen right doesn’t even practice “adolescent students shouldn’t be treated as sexual beings by adults”, but “everyone should be comfortably affirmed in their chosen gender identity” really is commonly preached as a component of middle-class morality.
Likewise I’ve seen rightists put forward some parents who understand school-pushed gender modernity as something to protect their children from, but I’ve honestly seen more parents supporting their child’s gender transition and seeking an affirming environment for them as an act of child protection.
And anyway just like “teens should FUCK”, “people born with dicks should be understood as boys, who grow into men” was always treated as implicit, while much like 80s cons with “Christian morality should be followed”, modern libs really do hold “sex and gender individuality should be respected” as something schools should teach children.
Michelle Pfeiffer in ’Batman Returns’ - Tim Burton - 1992 - USA
just like Burton’s first Batman was about NYC’s 80s “urban crisis”, violence on the streets, Batman Returns was about the turn to the ‘90s and the return of the city, as the never-left faction of unmarried women traded image as mousy to leather-clad dominatrix sexy, and meanwhile the Penguin, disgustingly waddlingly fat… with freakishly large nose… cut off from his heritage… laughably styling himself as heir to the old urban ruling class…
huh.
Like, I get it, penguins really do have beaks, waddle, and look like they’re wearing tuxedos, and have since before Moses came down from the mountain, but still this take on a character from pulp fiction set in German Expressionist ersatz-NYC is in fact all those things, plus he starts the movie being set in a basket to float down a river, uses a businessman named for the German actor who played lead in Nosferatu as a front, and after his attempt to win a PR war against the rightful old-money heir to the city fails when his vulgarity is revealed and the people reject him (and the sexy single woman figure rejects him as hideously unappealing) he strikes out at high society by stealing their children and killing their firstborn sons.
Like, holy shit you guys.
Oh also, this child-stealing, where he realizes his real beef is with the German industrialist who doesn’t respect him enough to invite him to social functions, comes in the context of ruining Christmas.
Michelle Pfeiffer in ’Batman Returns’ - Tim Burton - 1992 - USA
just like Burton’s first Batman was about NYC’s 80s “urban crisis”, violence on the streets, Batman Returns was about the turn to the ‘90s and the return of the city, as the never-left faction of unmarried women traded image as mousy to leather-clad dominatrix sexy, and meanwhile the Penguin, disgustingly waddlingly fat… with freakishly large nose… cut off from his heritage… laughably styling himself as heir to the old urban ruling class…
huh.
Like, I get it, penguins really do have beaks, waddle, and look like they’re wearing tuxedos, and have since before Moses came down from the mountain, but still this take on a character from pulp fiction set in German Expressionist ersatz-NYC is in fact all those things, plus he starts the movie being set in a basket to float down a river, uses a businessman named for the German actor who played lead in Nosferatu as a front, and after his attempt to win a PR war against the rightful old-money heir to the city fails when his vulgarity is revealed and the people reject him (and the sexy single woman figure rejects him as hideously unappealing) he strikes out at high society by stealing their children and killing their firstborn sons.
we have ideologies saying that homosexuality is caused by ghosts, and that’s bad. we have ideologies saying that homosexuality is natural, and that’s good. we have ideologies saying that homosexuality is natural, and that’s bad.
we must advance the thought that homosexuality is caused by ghosts and supernatural influence, and that’s good, for symmetry if nothing else.
Male homosexuality is caused by fujoshi ghosts. Female homosexuality is caused by…
It’s kinda interesting, isn’t it, that there isn’t a word for the male equivalent of a fujoshi.
Because nobody thinks anything of a man liking lesbian porn.
We’ll know we have achieved a better society when women watching gay porn is seen as expected and unremarkable…
This is basically why I expect the next decade or so will be for bi men what the ‘90s were for bi women
What do you think the ‘90s were for bi women?
Thoroughly sexualized, sought as mates, and constantly pestered for threesomes, but I don’t expect it to be that good, I’m thinking more “benefited from spillover of ‘lesbian chic’”-level
Michelle Pfeiffer in ’Batman Returns’ - Tim Burton - 1992 - USA
just like Burton’s first Batman was about NYC’s 80s “urban crisis”, violence on the streets, Batman Returns was about the turn to the ‘90s and the return of the city, as the never-left faction of unmarried women traded image as mousy to leather-clad dominatrix sexy, and meanwhile the Penguin, disgustingly waddlingly fat… with freakishly large nose… cut off from his heritage… laughably styling himself as heir to the old urban ruling class…
Obviously it doesn’t prove you are a woman, the whole issue is a disputed definition in the first place.
But it doesn’t prove the opposite either. Honestly, the whole matter stinks of “chadwashing” which is used to justify an attitude that is sometimes indistinguishable from cruelty - why is “male power, privilege, and entitlement”, in either the individual or general case, being taken for granted here?
I love how feminism is completely unable to remember what it did a few decades back.
This could pretty much be an ‘80s second-waver take without changing a word, Transsexual Empire was published in 1979.
My point is that second wave was very industriously “getting laws changed and forcing their way into male spaces and categories”.
