#societal commentary

[moonlightink7]

Sigh. One of those things I notice and/or realize growing up is like. Older people "don't have" neopronouns as often because we spend so much time just... telling ourselves we don't want to have to explain it and that today isn't the day to fight that battle, especially when people barely even properly gender binary trans people. I've seen it happen to myself too and I'm like man. I hope in some future generation neopronouns are normalized and everyone gets to live comfortably and use them.

#neopronouns #societal commentary #onyx speaks #lp talks

[lucille-morningstar]

Society is Corrupt; Long Live the Fools

#jester #clown #society is fucked #government corruption #societal collapse #societal commentary

[peaceloveandstarrs]

brainwashed. dhani reposted the story about the album anniversary from george's ig account saying it really is a thing. the more i think of it, the more i think both of them are right (george wrote the album so)

society and media brainwashes us to think that we need to constantly buy buy buy. unhappy? buy this fancy journal with all of these prompts, that'll fix it!

i bought a wellness journal on a day trip last summer. where is it? in my dresser drawer. haven't touched it since before work started back. what do i use to journal? a plain notebook that i've had for two, three years. no prompts. just whatever i want to write.

hate your body? buy this exercise machine, this diet plan, this juice cleanse! that'll for sure fix it!

does it? not in my experience. i've tried to shrink myself for YEARS. i've got posts on my blog showing my exercise results going back to 2015. nearly a decade. the only thing that can fix the hatred of our bodies is to stop giving in to the societal/media brainwashing that we're supposed to hate our bodies. we aren't. think about it with me for a second. imagine what would happen if we got rid of the media portrayal of fat bodies as bad or something that needed to be fixed. imagine if we got rid of influencers peddling diets and exercise machines or people showing off their extreme weight loss. would we have nearly as many people hating their bodies? absolutely not. food for thought.

at a concert? out in nature? better have your phone with you so you can take pictures! at home? better be on your phone looking at what everyone else is doing!

personal experience here. i took videos from kareoke at our work christmas party last year. of the music person at staff wellness day b/c our cook got up there and sang with him. i took pictures of christmas lights yesterday. have i looked any of them? no. i've deleted video after video i've taken. because they just take up space. and honestly, even if i went to see ringo or paul, i probably wouldn't watch the videos i took.

now, i understand having your phone on you in case you run into trouble. that i get. but i don't want to watch a concert or a sunset or the drive through the country through my phone's camera lens. i understand wanting to preserve memories. but we've become so obsessed with wanting to put these things on social media that we watch literal once-in-a-lifetime events through our phone's cameras, trying to capture everything to put on facebook or instagram or whatever. it's sad. we're brainwashed to be jealous of what others are doing instead of appreciating our lives for what they are. and at the end of the day, we're all mortal. we aren't our bodies. we are our souls, our personalities, our hearts. and do we really want to be on our death beds regretting the comparisons we made to others? wanting to be like them instead of finding ourselves?

thinking for ourselves? what's that? we're told what to think. tiktok especially has loads of people telling us that this food is bad (scientifically, it isn't). that this exercise plan will get rid of X amount of pounds in a week! that we need to do this to love ourselves. how about we go on our own self discovery? learn what we like and don't like instead of forcing ourselves to do things we don't like just to reach some societal idea of happiness. don't like meditating no matter how much you try to? cool, don't do it! don't like hiit exercises no matter how much you're told it's the best type? fine! nothing says you have to do them. don't like face masks and soaking in a tub with a fancy bath bomb? hey you do you babe! you've got other ways to love yourselves.

so fucking sick of being told how to be. how to look. how to feel. of being told what to do, what to buy, to be happy.

i'm sick of the world, the media, society 'brainwashing' me.

#idk what this is #but dhani's repost got me thinking #maybe i'm more like george and dhani than i thought #long post #societal commentary

[mydadcouldbeatupyourdad]

Beige.

A colour so often discouraged of it's existence - simply because it bores the human mind. Yet without it vibrant colours would be the boring norm in much a similar way to beige right now.

Some people are like beige.

Supportive and mundane, but without them others would not shine. The world would devolve into chaos like an unmoderated multiplayer game if everyone successfully shone, regardless of other people. It would be blinding.

Beige is calm and peaceful, easy on the eye.

It seldomly overstimulates people just by being there. Usually it even falls into the background without us even noticing it, but it's there.

A background color. An npc. Beige.

#poetic beige #my thougts #rambles #rambling #societal commentary

[shouts-into-the-void]

I'm becoming more and more convinced that everyone mad about the changes made in the Percy Jackson series just don't have critical thinking skills

#oh the used the wrong version of the medusa myth? #why might the series designed around making societal issues accessible for young audiences have chosen to depict themes of SA #at a time when SA and bodily autonomy is gaining more widespread acknowledgement #i know you're into greek mythology and you dont like that its the roman myth and theres a whole history #but please use that beautiful brain and realize that this is a work of fiction used as a vessel for social commentary #and no offense but the reason that there are multiple versions of most myths is because they have ALWAYS #been altered depending on what is most culturally significant at the time #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo series #pjo

[howifeltabouthim]

She said women were considered strong these days only if they didn't talk about things they loved that didn't love them back, if they didn't get hurt or allow themselves to be occasionally humiliated at their own hands when, really, strength was being unashamed to want what you want.

Lisa Taddeo, from Animal

#women #societal expectations #societal pressure #shame #unrequited love #weakness #the heart wants what it wants #strength #unashamed #quotes #lit #words #excerpts #quote #literature #social commentary #lisa taddeo #animal

[cryolyst]

i would love to know literally anything more about warren peace's parents like what's their deal. how did they get to the point of having a child together. was his dad a hero turned villain and hiding it from his mom or was the mom aware. did they raise him together. did they have to pretend to be enemies in the public eye. that story must've went crazy.

#i realize with the very little we know it could be taken in a very dark direction #i don't feel like with the fairly surface levels of societal commentary the movie does get into #that that would be what they'd canonically go with though so #what i'm saying is sky high prequel about warren's parents with will's parents in the bg #sky high #they speak! #sorry for getting too deep in thought about a mid 2000s movie that wasn't even made to be that deep.

[femmefatalevibe]

Just wondering,

Do u think women these days want more casual/sexual relationships rather than something longterm or serious?

As one of these women, I can say a lot of it is for two reasons:

Because we can, honestly. For a lot of (even modern) history, women didn't have the academic, professional, and financial opportunities to live without/not need to seek out a long-term romantic partner. Even in the past decade or two when these possibilities existed, there was a LOT of social stigma surrounding women enjoying being single while also valuing sex/sexual relationships (think Samantha Jones and how she was portrayed back in the '90s/early '00s vs. how we perceive/admire her now)

Relationships are a lot of work and, especially in heterosexual relationships, the emotional labor often falls mainly (if not exclusively) on the woman, which can take a toll on your health, professional life, self-esteem, social life/friendships, self-esteem, ability to pursue hobbies, etc.

Desiring or enjoying being in a long-term/serious romantic relationship is an equally valid ideal/choice. With any perception/lifestyle choices surrounding romance/sex/dating, the intention and fulfillment/respect for both parties in any given dynamic should always be the priority.

Hope this helps xx

#sex and relationships #dating and relationships #casual sex #female sexuality #female power #social commentary #gender norms #women's rights #women's empowerment #feminist #feminism #femmefatalevibe #q/a #social norms #societal expectations #societal impact #intersectional feminism #gender roles #patriarchy #purity culture #womens rights

[p0vertyyy-goddess]

Funny withc girl from funny witch series with the funny witch hat wirh the funny witch people and the funny witch spells and the funny witch world and thebfunny witch arta and the funny witch dome -

#and the funny witch masks #and the funny witch eyes and the #funny witch outfits #and the funny witch societal commentary and the #funny witch animals and the #go read witch hat atelier #witch hat atelier #agott arkrome

[smalltownfae]

Just watched Nope and when credits rolled one of my friends immediately said "This guy has yet to disappoint" and the rest of us just noded. How does he keep coming up with this absolute high quality movies???

#nope #movies #and they all are a different experience #always drowned in commentary about a specific societal issue but they have a different atmosphere #this one was surprisingly so funny #nope movie

[flythesail]

Thinking out loud here but there's something to be said about Bess's support of the supernatural in an episode we also learn someone was indirectly killed when the supernatural was used to save someone else. But then again, if they had access to the Historical Society, they could have dealt with the curse the intended way rather than at the Claw. Which becomes what, a need for the resources to manage the supernatural safely? Then you bring in the discussion of drugs via the chief's backstory...

#the nd writers are like *slaps roof of show* i can fit so much societal commentary in here #nancy drew spoilers #flythepost

[cinephilesadeqi]

Movie Analysis and Review: "Detachment" (2011)

Synopsis:“Detachment,” directed by Tony Kaye, delves into the life of Henry Barthes (Adrien Brody), a substitute teacher who avoids emotional connections, constantly moving from one district to another. Placed in a public school filled with apathy among students and disinterested parents, Henry inadvertently becomes a role model to his disaffected students and forms a unique bond with a teenage…

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#Adrien Brody #Art House #Character Development #Cinematography #Complex Narratives #Detachment #Education System #Elegiac Tone #Emotional Connection #Farid M. H. Sadeqi #Farid Sadeqi #Film Review #Hosein Tolisso #Independent Film #Mohammad Hosein Sadeqi #Movie Analysis #Social Commentary #Societal Apathy #Soundtrack #Storytelling #Tony Kaye

[badolmen]

So you know that comic called Judgment Day? The one about the astronaut who goes to an alien civilization to assess if they’re ready to join the galactic council or whatever? But he denies them because they are prejudiced against their own kind? And the last panel of the comic shows that the astronaut is a Black man?

Anyways just found out that was one of the last comics produced by EC a company that made its name in horror and scifi comics. Not all of their comics were free of stereotypes or insensitivity but so many of their stories were so radical (addressed antisemitism, racial violence) for the 50s that people started to talk of government censorship of comics. Eventually an NGO made of comic publishers ‘certified’ comics for publication, with a code not dissimilar from the Hayes code for film. Judgement Day’s unedited publication was severely delayed because the council wanted fewer drops of sweat on his face, or a member outright fought its publication because the sentient robot aliens ‘were against his religious beliefs,’ which is all to say that the council didn’t want to publish a comic with commentary on race equality during the height of the civil rights era.

#ra speaks #personal #sorry just info dumping #I recognized the comic and it was like !!!! I’ve seen this on tumblr before and they never mentioned the hell the publisher went through #to get this published unedited after 90% of their comics were pulled from shelves or literally publically burned for the crime of #well. depicting crime. and horror. and violence against authorities. and ‘sexual perversion’ #like I said they weren’t perfect they published racist and sexist and smutty stuff but so many stories #were commentary on societal issues that super hero comics at the time didn’t touch with a ten foot pole #unless you count superman or wonder woman or Batman killing Japanese people as ‘progressive social commentary’

[cinnamontoads]

having a south park phase at age 13 either helps teach you nuance and how to discern between genuine good satirical commentary and shit that’s just truly in bad, awful taste OR turns you into the most unbearable person imaginable

#like do you get it #there are episodes that are really funny accurate societal/political commentary and there are episodes that are just #uncomfortable and definite Misses #and i feel like being able to recognize that and see nuance in a media instead of ‘all good’ or ‘all bad’ is a good skill to have

[repurposedmeatlocker]

The double-edged sword of being a "Beavis and Butt-Head" fan but having a complicated opinion towards Mike Judge's work.

#I like the general cynicism and misanthropy as it is handled in b&bh #and when he tackles work-place related commentary and criticism it also works #but then you have things like idiocracy which based on critiques I've seen of it...I am not looking forward to inevitably seeing #there is a certain level of misanthropy and general societal negativity I can handle (and even agree with) #but when it starts to try and explain it in some 'scientific' and pretentious way I am cautiously stepping to the other lane #squack

[the-sun-falls-like-a-guillotine]

you know what @jonnywaistcoat would absolutely eat? Titanic horror — like that kind of resigned dread of knowing that you aren't going to get on a lifeboat because you're travelling third class

#jonny sims #can't remember why i started thinking about this but that sort of societal commentary is a big part of big Jonny's writing style #the magnus archives #the magnus protocol #thirteen storeys #family business