fun fact, there are only two types of gendered socialization: misogyny and skill you can learn in a week. tying braids? skill. not taking up too much space? misogyny. talking too loud? misogyny. makeup? skill.
The "Standard of Living" didn't naturally drop. It was traded for "Shareholder Value." We traded the ability for one person to support a family on a single income for the ability for a billionaire to have a private space program. It was a conscious swap.
dave grohl granting an animation studio a license to use nirvana's music and saying kurt cobain would have loved the yuri anime "the guy she was interested in wasn't a guy at all" girl we know
cis people can genuinely not conceptualize why trans women who grew up abused and humiliated at any turn if they tried to leanr makeup and who are told nonstop by everyone around them that they're just men in dress and fugly makeup larping would have more shame from this than
shitlibs will refuse to admit it till their dying breath but all these DSA wins are mostly due to gaza. like did u really think u were gonna bulldoze children for years and make us watch and never face any pushback for that
as a trans women you want friends that either have a fully developed transfeminist consciousness or people who heard the phrase "trans women are women" ten years ago and went "ok" and had no further thoughts on the matter
everyone’s joking about brands immediately removing all their pride stuff the instant the month ends but it’s harrowing how many of them didn’t even pretend to be supportive this year
The new Jackass is out and it’s really the finale of millennial youth.
To understand Jackass is to understand millennial men.
First and foremost, Jackass is outside and it’s doing dumb stuff. It happens in the real world. It is people doing things that come from a deep, deep sense of boredom. You don’t taser your friends nuts if you have a magic dopamine box in your pocket 24/7.
You couldn’t understand the anticipation of a friend doing something dumb in 2005. The monotony and nothingness of banal regular life being cut through instantly by your friend getting pushed in a shopping cart into the hedges of an Episcopalian church so they launch like a catapult.
This was our youth. These were our people. After the dot com boom and 9/11 and the war in Iraq, there was a nihilism and sadness in the country. Jackasss came in to fill that void. Fuck everything, they said, have fun with your homies. Terrorize corny people. Have fun with your homies.
You can see a tinge of sadness in all of their eyes. Even for them, the kings of risk, they know they can’t gamble with their bodies anymore.
But there’s something more than that. There’s a sense now that it also wouldn’t be worth it. I. 2003 if you punched your dwarf friend with a giant boxing glove, you made fifty million people laugh for years. Now maybe you get a few hours.
These are samurai that would do this to their death if we wanted them to. But the payoff now would be so fleeting, what is the point. They are not afraid, they are sad. Values have changed. They are shogun in a world that doesn’t need them.
And that’s ok. That’s getting old. And we always knew this was coming. Their theme song, the classic twang of a telecaster, is Corona by the band Minutemen. It’s a sad song about how greed and excess of America pillaged Latin America. And that was there all along, just below surface, ready to be some metaphor for the jackass journey; the sad clown is just sad when the show is over.
@Jardani_x@MoloWarMonitor The timestamp and coordinates are meant to allow others to corroborate/confirm the info. It's basically citing sources. Dumbfuck.