@BalazsLevy@EPM106 The shot is borrowed imagery from Apocalypse Now. Lucas always wrote Star Wars as allegorical to Vietnam, so in older movies the empire got to ride out of the sunset, but now the goodie republic is the one dropping napalm
We lost David Graeber six years ago today, but the work is unstoppable. He’d have wanted me to hurry up and get on with the next instalment of our new history of humanity, so .. it’s back to work. RIP, dear David.
re: my experience with rocky horror. growing up as a child of the gay bashing generation, characters/quotes from rhps were an incredibly common insult towards trans women and feminine gay boys. older, tolerated gays would also use it as defence of what they are not "not one of
@mickeybloois@tired_la_wolfie The writer of this screenplay has deeply internalized transmisogyny, calls us “mutilated men”, says “you can’t be a woman”, “just because you lop off your dick and wear a dress doesn’t make you a woman”, etc. the caricature he invented is purposeful and targeted.
@ParanoidPanda@burnthelilacs Richard “just because you lop off your dick and wear a dress doesn’t make you a fucking woman” “[trans women are] mutilated men” “You can’t be a woman” O’Brien didn’t have anything at all to say about trans women when he wrote his crossdressing monster villain?
i have no issue with trans men or transmascs identifying as lesbians if they want to, but “Respect Queer History” should be an educational mantra, not a call for Queer Nationalist aestheticizing of a Glorious and Righteous Past. Reppers and reactionaries invested in keeping…
@skyyyG2@MILLENIALCHASER If what he wrote 50 years ago is still in line with what he says now, it is a transphobic production written by someone with internalized transphobia for the purpose of a transphobic politics