Going viking (it's a verb) held about the same cultural significance as going on gap year does to us. Sure all the important people do it, some spend their whole lives doing it, but it doesn't really define the culture so much as one aspect of its relationship with other cultures
the fact that you refer to norse cultures as "vikings" is a great example of how right wingers are only ever able to interpret history through the lens of the 1800s romanticists who invented their entire ideology from whole cloth
Leftists who nerd out about Vikings, Celtic music, Ancient Greek philosophy, or anything to do with European history & culture confuse me so much. Itโs like, โOtters are my favorite animals :) I canโt wait for them all to go extinct :))โ
if you told an ancient greek he had anything in common ethnically or culturally with a galatian, or hell just another ancient greek from a different part of greece, he'd kill you with a spear. Your view of the world is entirely modern, you aren't the inheritor of jack shit
it's very funny that it gets touted as some pro-western text when literally half of persepolis is her being fucking miserable because she lives in austria surrounded by white german fuckboys
I mean of course she became a macronist her life was defined by the abject. complete failure of the 20th century marx-leninist revolutionary project, but still
-born into a family of marxists
-protested against the shah and disliked him heavily
-uncle killed for being leftist
-strong against foreign intervention
-still dunked on by tankies and campist
You canโt win with these people
I worked with Wallace a few years ago on an indie short. He was trying to break out of his Wallace and Gromit persona and establish himself as a character actor. Didn't work out in the end as he could only film 2 seconds of footage a day. Nice bloke though
good โol boys with a souped up Dacia Sandero called the General Lรญster doing crazy jumps to get away from the unreconstructed Fracoist local Guardia Civil commander
people are realising how iranian feminists get used to launder justification for war against iran and are blaming the iranian feminists instead of the people trying to justify the war
I did not have a bunch of people snidely call me a hipster for specious reasons (flannel shirts, cheap beer) when I was a young man to read any of these goddamn tweets, I can tell you that much.
*leans in real fuckin close to the mic, deepthroating that shit like the bastard daughter of nancy reagan and linda lovelace* butch is a xenogender, and so is Grace Jones
my take on xenogender stuff is that some of you don't understand that the vast majority of people using these labels online or in queer spaces just tell most people that don't Get Gender Stuff that they're nonbinary
fanon's main rhetorical technique, known today as "playing the bit out in a sarcastic voice until you start getting mad at him", can also be found in the work of seminal modern postcolonial thinker Stewart Lee