re: hot queer take
@IrisKalmia I was saying that from My perspective, any mass media that's inclusive of queerness or any sort of diversity feels phony for the same reasons that the IT Crowd and BBT do, and that there is no Good representation.
Sorta like the US government.
re: hot queer take
@IrisKalmia It's almost like I have a really dim view of mainstream media or something.
hot queer take
I'm not sure if I even Want representation.
I've avoided it my whole life because it's never in a positive light when presented by an outsider.
And when it's presented by someone who is involved with that subtype, it's always over the top, the story is centered around it, and it's the most important thing in the universe.
I used to be really alienated from queerness because it seemed like the expectation was that you had to be Out as hard as possible.
And I didn't even know what I was, let alone how to be Out as that thing.
Representation in media is a double edged sword. Sometimes you get The I.T. Crowd, sometimes you get The Big Bang Theory.
Drugs, autism
I suspect when normals are dealing with an acid trip freakout or getting too stoned on weed, they're just bumping up against an overstimulated state for the first time.
Because drugs aren't Shit compared to a full autistic breakdown. Three tabs of acid was nothing in terms of Freak Out compared to an unexpected phone call from the government over nothing.
social justice terminology, pollution metaphor (violence mention)
Watched the Renegade Cut video on toxic masculinity and anti-hierarchism earlier - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_O7w5W7rZg - and while I was mulling it over I came up with a metaphor:
The "toxic" in "toxic masculinity" is like the "leaded" in "leaded gasoline". Something was added to the system to produce a profitable effect for those in power, and that thing is poison, and we need to change what we do so we can get rid of it.
(In the case of leaded gasoline, that was "sell more powerful/economical cars that depend on its anti-knock properties" and in the case of toxic masculinity, that was "maintain a hierarchy full of people willing to do the violence necessary to perpetuate it", but in both cases, the profits go to the powerful.)
@typhlosion yup. I'm an hour south of Boston
Weird dream last night
@blackcorvo subconscious stuff can be like that
Weird dream last night
@blackcorvo being pansexual in a long-standing metaphor for the struggles of the gay community
re: HRT, lewd, kink??????
@lacuna I dunno, how do you feel about someone who got born that way? =P Yanno.
Pre-shrunk?
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Tiny motorcycles, magic potions, machine tools, progressive rock, trance states, and hand sharpened drill bits. Oh, and I read Tarot. Probably 18+ just to be sure.
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