the idea that restrooms, locker rooms, etc need to be single-sex spaces in order for women to be safe is patriarchy’s way of signalling to men & boys that society doesn’t expect them to behave themselves around women. it is directly antifeminist. it would be antifeminist even if trans people did not exist. a feminist society would demand that women should be safe in all spaces even when there are men there.
btw this is maybe the single most key distinguishing feature of the terfy strains of radical feminism, the seed all the rest of it springs out of: they have absolutely no faith in the ability of feminism to actually destroy patriarchy. they do not think feminism can truly build a better world. they cannot really even imagine that possibility. they think patriarchy is an inevitable natural consequence of unchangeable biological facts, and therefore the goal of feminism can only be to mitigate the worst effects of patriarchy, not to get rid of it.
they can imagine a society where women get some designated safe spaces without men around. they cannot imagine a society where the presence of men is not inherently a danger to women.
Lmao how is this real, “the ambient sounds of the world were wrong, sir”
Imagine paying Columbia-amounts of money to be taught by someone with kindergarten-level art literacy. Like, motherfucker, the wholeass point of 4’33” is to emphasize how every performance of live music is inextricably linked to the ambient sounds of the context in which it is performed!!!!!!! Paying attention to and thinking about thecontext of the performance is the point of the song!!!! If the point was to hear birds chirping and people walking, John Cage would have fucking recorded that instead. Insisting that art is only good when contains good things and makes you feel good things is baby-level art criticism. How the fuck is this dude a professor.
Actually I’m not done going off yet. This pisses me off so much. How can you teach the humanities and be so obstinately ignorant? Like bruh, if the chanting outside makes you feel uncomfortable and upset, maybe you should take about four and a half minutes to contemplate why you feel that way. During that time, you might consider things such as: why are there students chanting? What are they protesting? Why do they feel so strongly about this issue that they’re willing to disrupt their lives to bring attention to it? Should I also feel as strongly? Should I be protesting with them? Is my desire for silence more important than the students’ desire for justice? Why do I find the noise they’re making more upsetting than the genocide they’re protesting?
Being like “loud noise make me angy 😠” is so fundamentally incurious and baby-brained it’s honestly unbelievable
I’d like also to just contrast this with Palestinian poet Marwan Makhoul:
In order for me to write poetry that isn’t political
I think my number one Harry Osborn fancast might be Doug Jones (albeit when he was somewhat younger, considering the characters age). He is very much giving me dorky dad Harry, and he’s definitely got the tall and lanky built of Sal Buscemas take on the character
And not only that, but I believe his experience with monster roles could lend itself perfectly to the Green Goblin too. I’ve always been a fan of the Goblin as an elaborate LARP costume over some kind of high tech armor. Playing up that fantasy creature aspect could give Harry’s Goblin a delicious campy and uncanny energy
That is a GOOD FANCAST. (Doug Jones popped up in something I was watching recently, but I didn’t recognize him without several layers of prosthetics, so all I could think was “That’s the most Harry Osborn-looking man I’ve ever seen.”)
It’s really heartening how much people on this site came together to help Ahmed @90-ghost. He’s in Egypt now with his younger brother waiting on his mom and older brother to join them. The issue now is living expenses. Life is extremely difficult for displaced people, and the future is uncertain. If you’ve ever wondered how you can help a Palestinian displaced by the genocide, here’s one way to do so.
I had a very bad mental health time this weekend (for once, actually not my fault) but a walk in the bluebells of Linslade Wood actually helped a great deal. They looked and smelled so nice.
Here’s a vast tree that many people have carved their names (or someone else’s names) into. I was almost tempted to do the same thing myself but I didn’t have a sharp object, and I’m not sure I could bring myself to vandalize a tree.
The TV series of a game series I’ve loved for half my life is finally here and I can’t get over how good it is. I love Lucy and relate to her weird ways and too-precise manner of speaking very much indeed. The constant monsters and blood-splatter are very entertaining. But most of all I love how much LOVE is in this show. Everything from the costumes to the tiniest details of the set design really does feel like Fallout come to life.
To give just one small example, that picture to the left of Lucy is a picture you can hang on the walls in the Fallout games. (I think the clock is as well, actually.) That’s a detail no-one would have minded if they left out but it’s in there anyway. God we were so lucky with this show.
