this weekend we're going to break from our normal informational protocol and have some fun with a little social experiment that we're going to call Karen Fest
everyone always enjoys a good comedy Karen video but what if we gave you 30 nahhh we went full queue - FIDDY Y'ALL,
ppl will be explaining how a difference is a difference & not a Deviation from a Superior state, & people who are the ones considered Default Normal (superior) will be like "okay....to be polite....i Might say i consider Some aspects of Some people's existence mere 'difference' & not being less than me...." as like hey i'm a Benevolent god. i still actually get to consider you worse & don't have to "humor" anything that challenges my superiority. if you only want everything to fit into the norm then it will all come back to upholding the norm. thinking of people's analysis of their own realities as equally legimate as being like Obscure, Irrelevant, Superficial & then using that reasoning to justify dismissing them. same as worrying that the [Different Lessers (Others(tm))] as Everywhere = a manifestation of the awareness that, yeah, respecting them as equals Does threaten your norm which is smothering everything everywhere. ppl who need to lock in the idea of Borders around personhood like um Yes they're all delineated separate Identities outside any hierarchy & so i think it's relevant to for some reason push back against "ohh so now Everyone's queer" like why not. why couldn't they be. what if they were. what if queerness was everywhere b/c it's ideological not a cordoned off Alternative Identity that is accommodated by focusing on Love(tm) as the new border around whose existence we might begrudgingly accept at arm's length (i.e. being otherwise "normal"! just imagine swapping out the binary gender (or, deep breath, presumed Private Parts) of one partner in an exclusive romantic lifelong nuclear family marriage, & that is Gay / Trans Rights. still gross but maybe we can do it, as long as they don't talk about it or shove it in our faces or even exist for more than one encounter w/us in our lives b/c what are the odds). evergreen laughing at someone suggesting ableist logic might be embedded in language of past & present b/c it's just So little to ask for that it's irrelevant but it's also So much to ask for that of course i'm not gonna do anything more than pass it along like "this is why i don't take ableism seriously" like yeah it's the disabled randos like it's the individual cringe teens(tm) ruining [the cishets would take Gender seriously otherwise!!!] & that's why you won't think about it or do anything about it & continue being comfortable with the norm & resent that actually their Difference is Less & disability is something worse that ppl "excuse" & all these ways that people are & all these things that they do are funny & weird & inexplicable & etc & one can't possibly be cruising along perpetuating a hierarchy with a sense that you're reasonable, well meaning, kind, etc etc & thus Justified, systemic oppression definitely wants to maximize how uncomfortable & arduous it feels to everyone rather than push to make it more streamlined & rewarding to embrace, or at least accept, whatever superiority over others you're afforded
Me at concert trying to make Convo: Oh hey I also cycle through 30 AO3 fic tabs to look for something to read then close the fic if it doesn't get me in first chapter
my hot take on ‘can you use food words to describe skin color, especially of nonwhite people or characters’ is, you probably can do it in a reasonable way, it just depends on how racist the rest of your writing is whether is comes off as creepy. like it’s well-established in English literature to describe skin “as white as milk” and “cheeks as rosy as apples” etc., typically to describe young women or girls. the fetishistic tone is not going to hinge solely on the words chosen (of course, associations have to be considered). the real issue is that the fetishization of white women and of Black women or brown women operates differently. the words used to do it are different. the associations with sexuality are different (y do u think white women who want to assert sexuality often choose to do it by either embodying stereotypes associated with women of color or by directly appropriating aspects of nonwhite culture?). so really the challenge for the writer is not to remove all purple descriptors from their language, even stilted or outdated ones, and their associations (impossible task) but to be good enough at their craft to challenge, remake, critique, etc. those associations. like idk it seems like a very hard task and that’s why the advice is to simply remove that language! however it’s more interesting to try to grapple with language imo. and ultimately more productive because many many types of words carry associations of otherness, sexuality, prejudice, etc. when applied to nonwhite vs white people, Black vs nonBlack people, etc. the language problem can only be understood when you know this and only solved when you work at it with deep knowledge. (I guess the reason some people balk hard at “I don’t get why this is perceived as racist” over e.g. “she had skin like chocolate” is because they are lacking that deep knowledge accrued from reading a lot. related: if you don’t read a lot, and you write with that type of language, without knowledge either conscious or unconscious of those biases, will you replicate them? form new associations? is knowledge a curse, lol?
i still feel like if a famous white woman from a beloved family in entertainment had lost her hair from chemotherapy for cancer, and at a big awards show viewed by huge numbers of people, the guy they got to host went on stage and cracked a joke about her being baldheaded, people would be fairly understanding if that woman and/or her husband were upset by it
i spent the night at my moms and one of her cousins friend is staying at her house and this man was trying to have a full on conversation with me as i was trying to fall asleep. and then when i woke up he was like “yeah I haven’t seen you since you were tiny tell me about yourself” like sir I don’t know you and it’s also six in the morning get out of my face?
Onoskelis (Satyr) - Extinct relatives of the common satyr that had donkey features instead of goat and lived up in the mountains and high cliffs. What brought their death was ancient religious crusades that deemed them demons. The Testament of Solomon is the only known evidence that they ever existed.
Deer Woman (Faun) - Relatives of the pan fauns with deer features instead of sheep and live out in the forests of North America. These fauns co-existed with the native tribes that once covered the vast wilderness and plains and too witnessed the demise and destruction of their people when settlers began their takeover. The race still lives on alongside the descendants of the native americans that suffered, but are now few in numbers and dwindling. A culture of their own at risk of dying off.
Oh my fucking god the coffee influencer girlies on Instagram won't LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE after a comment I made on a post MONTHS AGO
I have never seen a group of more pretentious people harassing someone who LITERALLY WORKS in a coffee shop (ME HELLO YES HI I work in a coffee shop, used to work for SB, don't like their company or union-busting) and if that isn't white coffee girlies with their full narcissism on display then I don't know what is