#academic term

[inkskinned]

it is hard to explain without sounding vain or stupid - but the more attractive others find you, the more you're allowed to do. the easier your life is.

i have been on both sides of this. i am queer and cuban. i grew up poor. for a long time i didn't know "how" to dress - and i still don't. i make my sister pick out any important outfits. i have adhd in spades: i was never "cool and quiet", i was the weird kid who didn't understand how "normal" people behave. i was bullied so hard that the "social outcasts" wouldn't even talk to me.

i got my teeth straightened. i cut my hair and learned how to style it. i got into makeup. it didn't matter, at first, if i actually liked what i was doing - it mattered how people responded to it. like a magic trick; the right dress and winged eyeliner and suddenly i was no longer too weird for all of it. i could wear the ugly pokemon shirt and it was just "ironic" or a "cute interest."

when i am seen as pretty, people listen. they laugh at my jokes. they allow me to be weird and a little spacey. i can trust that if i need something, people will generally help me. privilege suddenly rushes in: pretty does buy things. pretty people get treated more gently.

i am the same ugly little girl, is the thing. still odd. still not-quite-fitting-in. still scrambling. still angry and afraid and full of bad things. of course it became my obsession. of course i stopped eating. i had seen, in real time, the exact way it could change my life - simply always be perfect, and things can be easy. people will "overlook" all the other things. i used to have panic attacks at the idea others would see me without makeup - what would they think? even for a simple friend hangout, i'd spend a few hours getting ready. after all, it seemed so obvious to me: these people liked me because i was pretty.

i worry about how much i'm being a bad activist: i understand that "pretty" is determined by white, het, cis, able-bodied hegemonies. if i was really an ally, wouldn't i rally against all of this? recently there's been a "clean girl" trend which copies latinx aesthetics: dark slicked-back hair, hoop earrings. i almost never wear my hair like that; i can hear the middle school guidance counsellor advising me that i might fare better if i toned it down on the culture.

the problem is that i can take pretty on and off. that i have seen how different my life is on a day where i try and a day where i don't. i told my therapist i want to believe the difference is confidence, but it's not. and when you have seen it, you can't unsee it. it lives inside your brain. it rots there; taunting. i get rewarded for following the rules. i am punished for breaking them. end of story.

pretty people can get what they want. pretty people can feel confident without others asking where they got their nerve from. pretty people can be weird and different. pretty people get to have emotions; it's different when they get aggressive, it's pretty when they cry with frustration.

of course people care about this. of course it has crawled into you. of course you want to be seen as attractive. it's not vanity: it's self-preservation.

#pretty in this post is a stand in for . literally all forms of normativity #warm up #tbd maybe idk #ps! hi!! i'm queer!!!!!!!!! it is how i identify! if you tag this 'q slur' i will fight you!!! #i am using it here in the EXACT way it is NOT a slur !! i am identifying as a queer person! #this is EXACTLY how people reclaim it !!! #it's like practically ACADEMIC in this usage!! #please do any reading into what the fuck the history of the word ''queer'' is before telling me #as someone identifying as queer #that i'm a slur. that the place i find comfort in is a slur #''well it makes me uncomfortable if people use it for me'' #im sorry to hear that dude. that sucks. i hope things get easier for you soon #but you don't get to take it from ME #in case you can't tell by the REST of this piece #i DID hear queer used as slur against me. i DID get bullied with it. i DID hear a lot of shit said #i also heard it about lesbians #about ''being gay'' #about pretty much any fucking term that could describe me. #i like queer. i like how it feels. and it's mine. #you don't get to undo the work i've done personally because it makes u uncomfortable #it's ahistoric to pretend like there are ''safe'' ways to identitfy if ur queer. #none exist. it has never been safe to be like this.

[screamingfromuz]

Listen. LISTEN, the longer I spend in the academic world, I am more convinced that describing Judaism and Jews as a religion/ethnic grope/ethnoreligion is unhelpful outside of Academic circles.

The best way to explain Judaism is using the tribe model. A lot of times Judaism is a community first and a religion second, i.e., your level of religiousness is rarely a thing that alienate you from the community.

Think of other tribes, like the Sámi, Aboriginal Australians, Māori, Yurok, Inuit ect. Each have their own unique religion, but we do not think of them as a religious group, because the tribal identity is more important, and the religion is considered part of the culture, not the opposite.

IMORTANT SIDENOTE: I am aware that many of those tribes, and other tribes have a big chunk of Christians in them, usually more Christians than those who follow the indigenous religion of the tribe. BUT for the sake of discussion, I am equating Judaism to the section that does follow the indigenous religion of the tribe.

So, despite the fact that the religious structures of Judaism is very integral to Judaism, it is partly because of the community based focus of Judaism. The most basic example is the Minyan, the fact that prayer is preferred to be done in a group. Or the fact that the Sader is meant to be a celebrated in a group. and so on.

SO, ethnoreligion is a great academic term, but for outside that world? A tribe is a much better term to explain Judaism.

#jumblr #judaism #ethnoreligion #the problem of using academic terms outside academia is that they require the ACADEMIC CONTEXT #and I found that presenting Jews as a tribe makes a lot of the comparison to Christianity go away #and helps explain the solidarity a lot of Jews find toward other indigenous tribes #because we have a lot in common #the Jewish tribe is just far more spread out than most tribes #yes #this is an oversimplification #but sometimes you have to do it in order to get the point #Judaism is a closed practice #just like the faith of many other tribes

[swordsonnet]

Hallo mein Name ist Ebenholz Dunkel'heit Demenz Raben Weg und ich habe langes ebenholz-schwarzes Haar (so habe ich meinen Namen gekriegt) mit lila Strähnen und roten Spitzen das bis zur Mitte meines Rückens geht und eisblaue Augen wie durchsichtige Tränen und viele Leute sagen mir, dass ich wie Alma Unterwindseite aussehe (A. d. A.: wenn du nich weist wer sie ist dann verpiss dich von hier!). Ich bin nicht mit Gerhard Weg verwandt, aber ich wünschte ich wäre es, weil er ein verdammt heißer Feger ist. Ich bin ein Vampir, aber meine Zähne sind gerade und weiß. Ich habe blasse weiße Haut. Ich bin auch eine Hexe, und ich gehe auf eine Zauberschule namens Schweinwarzen in England, wo ich in der siebten Jahrgangsstufe bin (ich bin siebzehn). Ich bin ein Grufti (falls das euch nicht klar war) und ich trage vor allem schwarz. Ich liebe Heißes Thema und kaufe dort alle meine Klamotten. Heute zum Beispiel trug ich ein schwarzes Korsett mit passender Spitze drum herum und einen schwarzen Leder-Minirock, rosa Netzstrümpfe und schwarze Springerstiefel. Ich trug schwarzen Lippenstift, weiße Grundierung, schwarzen Augenkonturenstift und roten Lidschatten. Ich ging aus Schweinwarzen raus. Es schneite und regnete, also war keine Sonne da, worüber ich sehr glücklich war. Viele Popper starrten mich an. Ich zeigte ihnen den Stinkefinger.

#my only contribution to #speak your language day #enjoy #spyld #german #german stuff #deutsch #deutsches zeug #scheißpfosten #my immortal #...mein unsterbliches??? #i deliberately went for the most german words i could find. like i'm the german academie française #ive never heard anyone say 'augenkonturenstift' for eyeliner before but i found it on google and its annoyingly german soooo #translating 'preps' was surprisingly difficult so i had to do some digging. the popper subculture is from the 80s so not quite the right #time period but in terms of fashion and general attitude they were actually really similar to american preps #love how i'm annotating this like it's an academic translation and not a silly shitpost

[otaku553]

Me at 3 am the night before 8 am registration for next term’s classes begins

#am I going to sleep? maybe #strong maybe #the problem with doing my sets on iPad is that now that I can just. use goodnotes as a drawing app #every time I get stuck on a problem the brainrot inevitably returns and I just go doodle it before I forget it #and before I know it 2 or 3 hours are gone #maybe I should use some of my free late days on this set #it’s the second to last set of the term anyways #this has been your regularly scheduled Jen Academic Woes

[trek-tracks]

I'm writing a theatre review today and I cannot come up with a more perfect term to describe this character than "a poor little meow meow" but I also cannot put this in a real published review. So you see my problem.

Me: this character was a poor little meow meow. a real Wet Beast Wednesday

The readers of my relatively normal theatre review site: what

#not trek #my life #theatre critic life #never thought i'd ask someone “what is an academic term that means poor little meow meow” #all other terms are insufficient #that's what he is #poor little meow meow #having a wet beast wednesday

[annabelle--cane]

saw a post the other day where someone was frothing mad about a poll that went around asking about preferred lgbtq community terms where "queer" swept with like 70% votes, and it was all the usual stuff, but the thing that got me is the poster said something like "you guys are trying to make 'queer' the academic term" and. comrade "queer" has been the academic term. for decades. it's really easy to see looking at the library in my school's queer student center, you see books published in the 70s and 80s referring to "gay studies," then "gay and lesbian studies" in the 80s into the early 90s, then "queer studies" in the mid 90s onwards. I don't think it was even a particularly pointed language choice, a single syllable word is just a lot easier to print and say than several words or an acronym that keeps changing and rearranging every few years. like. this is so so not a 2010s phenomenon of young people not knowing what they're talking about.

#the academic term Has Been queer. for about thirty years. I cannot emphasize this enough. #poast unrebloggable because some people have been Weird on my posts that mention the term queer lately #but I did want to say this #marina marvels at life

[communistkenobi]

whenever you open an academic article about gender and the author only uses the word queer and never mentions trans people specifically it’s gonna be a shit fucking article

#every time I interact with queer studies I have a bad time #like my experience with ‘queer’ in academic terms is a cover for not addressing transmisogyny #that ultimately lies at the heart of a lot of cis & tme feminist thought

[4dmc]

there really is something wrong with some of the "Alpha-Sigma" people when talking about women's appearances/bodies and it's misappropriation of academic terms (not to mention how they probably skipped biology in school)

but I'm just glad for some DmC meme afterwards

#i claim no credit only the spread of meme and funnies #dmc devil may cry #devil may cry #dmc: devil may cry #dmc reboot #reboot dmc #reboot dante #reboot vergil #dmc #reboot devil may cry #dante #vergil #sydney sweeney #friedrich nietzsche #academic terms #alpha man #sigma man #meme

[antiterf]

InterACT made a glossary for a large amount of intersex variants! It's not all of them, as the glossary mentioned that new ones are constantly found, but it's one that's mindful of language and gender while trying not to be overly medical.

#as someone who is dyadic this is important to me because I want to help give visibility to intersex people and their struggles with stigma #and if I'm looking through academic literature the term intersex may not come up and it's instead one of the many diagnoses listed #notaterftip #not sarcasm #intersex #lgbtqia

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

So I've been thinking like an insane person and my point is The Artful Dodger is almost the archetype in English literature for a cheat, he exemplifies the character type in a way that transcends his novel and has entered public consciousness. So when we meet Jack at the start of tad with him being cheated, it's not signifying that he's lost his ability for crime, he clearly hasn't, he's still got a lot of the offbeat charm and showmanship which makes the original character so compelling, he's still engaging in what the Victorians would call dissolute behaviour (gambling), he's still very much a similar character and him being cheated isn't removing that, but it is removing his inherent identity as The Cheater - on an extra-textual level that archetypical identity is stripped from him, he still has the same skills and at times the same inclinations but in being introduced to him in a way that removes that household name core identity it indicates that no matter how similar he may seem, no matter how much Fagin says he's the same, something very fundamental has changed and won't change back.

And this is of course indicated by his running - the Artful Dodger runs as he blames his theft on Oliver, he runs from trouble to save his own skin. Jack runs from trouble to save someone else (and later, of course, he runs from trouble to make sure Belle survives, even if it means he's arrested again). You get it right you see the impies.

#tad #the artful dodger #so important to start perhaps my most academic post on this subject with 'been thinking like an insane person' #I can never let you forget I am deranged just because i use terms like archetype and extra-textual

[goldenstarprincesses]

Out: Puritan and Quaker America

In: America lived with the Shakers because they saw him as just another sad little abandoned orphan and with their interpretation of God leaning more mystical they weren't freaked out by him not aging normally

#but honestly the Shakers are (where) a super interesting group of people #progressive in terms of gender and racial equality+ had a work ethic that was like yeah you had to work but you should also make art #and invent things to make your like and the life of others easier #and other religious groups HATED them for that like it was viewed as being super whacky and unchristian #from a academic perspective I have to wonder how many Shakers were gay/lesbian/asexual+ and they just didnt have a term for not wanting #heterosexual marriage in early 1700s England so they just sorta did their best to create their own community in the environment #they already had available to them #I also really like this for Nyo America due to how I think it would have impacted her mentality about being a leader #hws america #aph america #nyo america #hetalia america #hetalia #historical hetalia #alfred f jones #amelia jones

[devilsskettle]

i think some of the popularity that meta horror has garnered is a little bit disingenuous tbqh even though i do like some of the movies that have come out of the subgenre, people don’t realize that the foundation of the slasher genre was established in the 60s/70s and a lot of the 80s movies that have become so classic were already riffing off of the tropes established by those movies before full fledged meta took off. the idea to make friday the 13th was sparked by the commercial success of halloween. the original script for slumber party massacre was a parody of the genre and the movie retains much of that humor which is referential to past slashers by nature. + it intentionally uses typical slasher tropes around gender and sexuality to bring forward the concerns of teenage girls. is that not something that meta horror is frequently touted as doing? child’s play is like a slasher, “except —” which is what a lot of meta horror comedies do now (“slasher except it’s a possessed doll” is not that far off from “slasher except it’s freaky friday” and whatnot). this isn’t to say that scream isn’t foundational to what the slasher genre evolved into or that contemporary meta slashers aren’t doing something interesting but i also think they tend to lean towards cynicism towards the movies they’re deriving their themes from + they’re not even as different as they think they are from “classic” 80s movies that already are borrowing from classic slashers which in turn borrowed from even older horror (for example, in halloween, laurie is watching the thing from another world from the 50s which was adapted into the now classic john carpenter’s the thing in the 80s). and of course many of these older horror movies were adapted from literature which also inspired more literature. like the shelley/byron/polidori scary story writing contest is now legendary but also you don’t get the shining without the haunting of hill house (and you don’t get the haunting of hill house without turn of the screw, for example) and the shining is probably one of the most referenced movies by other media of all time. horror has always been an intertextual genre let’s stop pretending it didn’t become “self aware” until 1996

#+ scream used a framework for examining slasher tropes outlined in men women and chainsaws in 1992 #bringing the term ‘final girl’ + the ‘rules’ of slasher movies into pop culture #so not only is it working from the canon of slasher movies that already exists #but it also is looking at this academic text that establishes a credible film + gender studies lens for the slasher genre #omg not to mention what the author has to say about slasher-adjacent movies that are critically acclaimed #— movies that use a slasher framework for the plot that address similar themes #but distance themselves by making the violence + resolution of conflict less direct #(i.e. moving the conflict from the physical to the psychological) for example silence of the lambs is one movie she cites #making similar themes + similar conflicts more palatable to a wider audience #which is like the opposite response of meta slasher to the classic slasher canon #i guess if you want to make a slasher movie that isn’t really a slasher movie you have two options — lean into it or lean away from it lol #anyway all this is to say. idk whatever i’m bored + too depressed to get up and do anything productive rn #anyway. count how many times i say ‘for example’ in this post

[lesbian-disaster-academic]

Confessions of a Burnt-Out Gifted Kid (part 1/?)

[VIDEO ID: A sketched figure, labelled “me now” looks to the side with a worried expression on their face. They say, “You don’t have to be perfect or exceptionally great. You don’t even have to be GOOD”. The scene changes and it shows a slightly younger-looking figure labelled “teenage me”. They look angrily off to the side and say, “But I do.” They point to themselves. “I have to be all of those things all of the time”. END ID]

(Inspired by this video)

#adhd #actually adhd #executive dysfunction #actually neurodiverse #adhd paralysis #adult adhd #attention deficit hyperactivity disorder #gifted kid burnout #burned out #burned out gifted kid #burnt out gifted kid #burnt out #* DISCLAIMER: not rly on board with the term ‘gifted kid’ as it exists in euro-western colonial conceptions #i was designated ‘gifted’ in school but the term feels kinda problematic to me (i can expand on this in another post if u want!!) #but I guess it’s the most relevent term to use here in the tags #*shrugs* #academia #academic burnout #my art #personal #vent post #confessions of a burnt out gifted kid

[cookinguptales]

it's been so many years and I still have such firm opinions on what makes something creepypasta lmao

like girl don't link me to a /nosleep story and tell me it's a creepypasta, it is not.

#I recognize that these days a lot of people just use the term to mean scary story #but as someone who was actually fascinated by the rise and spread of real creepypasta #from an... academic folkloric pov I guess #I'm always like #NO YOU GUYS DON'T UNDERSTAND THE POINT

[stuckinapril]

how did u become this productive and academic and cool.. what age did u start..

Built this way babeyyyy

#I’m kidding. Idk I’ve been very academically oriented since I was a child #Being raised by an overachieving engineer mother probably helped but I can also safely say I was predisposed to academia the whole time #And as uni got harder I started mentally coaching myself until I got where I wanted #I also genuinely love science and I’m grateful to be studying something I’m passionate about every day #And while academic productivity (for the lack of a better term) comes naturally to me other stuff doesn’t #I’m very much a schedule kind of person and if I don’t have meticulous to do lists I literally die #I’m very lazy in certain aspects but I also like keeping my hands busy which is pretty fortunate #Flattered that u think being a nerd is cool. That is basically what I am

[communistkenobi]

why does spock only ever use the word logic. why not thrown in a ‘rationality’ or reasonability or objectivity or etc every so often. you would think vulcans would have like a gazillion words for logic since their whole culture is based around it

#tos.txt #< USING this tag finally. I will go back and tag other posts with it later #I’ve read probably too many academic debates about rationality as a term #like it’s in rational choice theory (annoying) obviously but also it’s a central theme in Adorno’s work