i didn't wanna believe it when i was younger but growing up really does make you stop giving a fuck about lgbtq identity discourse. like why would i care
Cynthia Erivo talks to Variety about people joking about her being Ariana Grande’s “bodyguard” after she defended her from a red carpet intruder:
“I think that we haven’t really come to terms with the insidious nature of how we view Black women. And I’m sure people will read this and think, ‘Oh, for goodness’ sake, it’s not about that.’ But it is. Because that’s what was being made fun of. It was my physique; it was my shape; it was the fact that I was bald; it was about what I looked like. And because of that, there was this assumption that I was bigger than my co-star and so I had to be controlling or protecting, and that was my role. I would hazard a guess that it would not have been the same had it been the other way around.”
gen z is mostly incredibly immature and obsessed with social media’s perception of every single thing they do, so they consider everything “cringe” by default and exaggerate anything that IS considered “social media friendly” by extreme
as a result, instead of actually being queer and “woke”, they do a full circle and end up being just as homophobic and conservative as the previous generations via mockery, posturing, and imaginary self-imposed limitations and shaming, such as “sex bad because capitalism”
i’m saying this as gen z btw, it’s really annoying to try to reason with people like this. it feels like they have no personality and have to gather it from somewhere else
Your mother is problematic. Your father is problematic. Your son is problematic. Your aunt is problematic. The cashier at the local Tesco is problematic. You've probably bought a cookie from a bakery made by hands that have done unspeakable things. Every chocolate bar you've ever eaten has probably killed a 7 year old child slave in Cameroon. The gas that drives your car is fueled by engines of death. Every person who has ever smiled at you in the streets has committed some act that if you knew about it, would make you profoundly dislike them.
We have all been bad, small, petty, unlikeable, cruel, downright mean. Authors are not special "problematic" beings, they're just more public. Part of being an adult is recognizing that without mercy for our fellow human beings, and ourselves, we'd all be condemned to death. Reading fiction should help us understand that we're all irreparably tainted with evil, every system is corrupted, every line is broken.
And like, that's okay. That's what it means to be alive.
it's crazy to me that nintendo dropped miis for almost a decade thinking they stopped making them money, only to get proven wrong with living the dream