gofahcyourself:
Jack’s reaction to a gift that someone sent to AHWU is just too damn funny
valeria2067:
plantdaddy-92:macgregorplaid:How is that renowned Republican brand working for you? The pictures above are a reminder of past and ongoing Republican actions and inaction so that people will remember them when they get ready to vote.Vote. Remember even your LEAST favorite Democratic Candidate is 1000% better than the monsters in charged now.
plantdaddy-92:
macgregorplaid:How is that renowned Republican brand working for you? The pictures above are a reminder of past and ongoing Republican actions and inaction so that people will remember them when they get ready to vote.Vote.
macgregorplaid:
How is that renowned Republican brand working for you? The pictures above are a reminder of past and ongoing Republican actions and inaction so that people will remember them when they get ready to vote.
Vote.
Remember even your LEAST favorite Democratic Candidate is 1000% better than the monsters in charged now.
what-even-is-thiss:
Family member: Hey I need some alone time! It’s nothing personal. See ya later.Me: *picks up suitcase* Welp. Time to move to Kansas. I can’t bother them from there.what-even-is-thiss:Professor: This is the most brilliant paper I’ve ever read. You’re a genius. You slipped on some grammar in the third paragraph though. You might wanna double check that next time.Me: *puts a paper bag over my head* Well college was fun while it lasted. Time to start applying at warehouses.what-even-is-thiss:Someone, anyone: Hey can you be quiet for a secMe: Hmmm. Time to go get lost in the Himalayas I guesswhat-even-is-thiss:Why does ADHD have a built in “if I sneeze at a inconvenient time I deserve to die” mechanic? How do I uninstall
Family member: Hey I need some alone time! It’s nothing personal. See ya later.
Me: *picks up suitcase* Welp. Time to move to Kansas. I can’t bother them from there.
Professor: This is the most brilliant paper I’ve ever read. You’re a genius. You slipped on some grammar in the third paragraph though. You might wanna double check that next time.Me: *puts a paper bag over my head* Well college was fun while it lasted. Time to start applying at warehouses.what-even-is-thiss:Someone, anyone: Hey can you be quiet for a secMe: Hmmm. Time to go get lost in the Himalayas I guesswhat-even-is-thiss:Why does ADHD have a built in “if I sneeze at a inconvenient time I deserve to die” mechanic? How do I uninstall
Professor: This is the most brilliant paper I’ve ever read. You’re a genius. You slipped on some grammar in the third paragraph though. You might wanna double check that next time.
Me: *puts a paper bag over my head* Well college was fun while it lasted. Time to start applying at warehouses.
Someone, anyone: Hey can you be quiet for a secMe: Hmmm. Time to go get lost in the Himalayas I guesswhat-even-is-thiss:Why does ADHD have a built in “if I sneeze at a inconvenient time I deserve to die” mechanic? How do I uninstall
Someone, anyone: Hey can you be quiet for a sec
Me: Hmmm. Time to go get lost in the Himalayas I guess
Why does ADHD have a built in “if I sneeze at a inconvenient time I deserve to die” mechanic? How do I uninstall
hozierlesbian:
i made a quiz to tell you which hozier song you are! rb and tag your result + your sign
aceofwonders:
It’s not a cult!
plenoptic07:
plenoptic07:I try to keep my nose out of shit like this but today. man. today I encountered something that really ticked me off.today I met a professor who does queer studies. she told me that her teenage gay son yelled at her recently for using the word “queer” in describing her discipline and demanded to know how the university “could get away with calling it that.”so of course she’s baffled right, and asks him where on earth this is coming from. and he told her he read it on Tumblr. listen if you don’t want to be called queer and don’t want to be lumped in with folks who comprise the queer community, that’s fine. that’s totally fine. it is 100% okay. people are allowed to have complicated histories with that word. it’s a fraught signifier. it’s a mess and it’s allowed to be. what’s not cool is telling young LGBTQ+ people that queer is a slur in all contexts because now you are stripping away not just the language that we use to describe ourselves but also the language that creates the discipline that lets us study our own lives and our cultures. Queer studies has been a part of American academe since the 1970s (possibly earlier, depending on who you ask). “Queer” has been a functioning and largely unproblematic signifier in American academe since ten years before the AIDS crisis. If you don’t at least know that much, you have absolutely no business trying to educate LGBTQ+ youth about queer history.Trying to censor the word queer from our collective cultural lexicon is 1) impossible. it’s here now. and 2) an erasure of our lineage of scholarship. I could spend all day lobbing criticisms at American academic culture and I do, but queers created space for ourselves in academe. We built a queer world inside the tower that tried its best to keep us out and now we have a place here. I am a queer person and I am a queer scholar. You use whatever words you want to signify who you are and how you live your life and how you love your loves. You won’t hear a peep of criticism from me. All I’m asking is that you do me and mine the courtesy of leaving our collective body of text very much the fuck alone.Look let me rephrase this because some of y’all in the notes and certainly everyone in my inbox aren’t getting what I’m trying so say. “Queer” is a complicated word (I call it a signifier, usually) and there is no easy way of discussing the ethical implications of its usage. Claiming that queer is an umbrella term that’s fine to use in all contexts is irresponsible. Claiming that queer is a slur in all contexts is irresponsible. We all owe it to each other to be conscious of these complexities.One context where queer is *not* deployed as a slur, and has not been historically, is in an academic context, ie queer studies and queer theory. Telling LGBTQ+ youth that queer is a slur *in those contexts* cuts off their access to a field of study that is *committed* to documenting and sharing the lives and knowledge of *anyone* who feels like they belong in that alphabet soup of marginalized identities. Regardless of how we feel about that word and regardless of our personal histories with it, we owe it to young LGBTQ+ people to give them enough information to make their own choices about how they relate to that signifier. They do not HAVE to be tormented by that word. They DESERVE to try and pursue a future without that trauma. Queers in academe have finally found a place where we can say who we are in our own terms, where we can be the authors of our own collective histories. Why are some of you so determined to take that away from the next generation of LGBTQ+ scholars before they even have a *chance* to make their own decisions?
I try to keep my nose out of shit like this but today. man. today I encountered something that really ticked me off.today I met a professor who does queer studies. she told me that her teenage gay son yelled at her recently for using the word “queer” in describing her discipline and demanded to know how the university “could get away with calling it that.”so of course she’s baffled right, and asks him where on earth this is coming from. and he told her he read it on Tumblr. listen if you don’t want to be called queer and don’t want to be lumped in with folks who comprise the queer community, that’s fine. that’s totally fine. it is 100% okay. people are allowed to have complicated histories with that word. it’s a fraught signifier. it’s a mess and it’s allowed to be. what’s not cool is telling young LGBTQ+ people that queer is a slur in all contexts because now you are stripping away not just the language that we use to describe ourselves but also the language that creates the discipline that lets us study our own lives and our cultures. Queer studies has been a part of American academe since the 1970s (possibly earlier, depending on who you ask). “Queer” has been a functioning and largely unproblematic signifier in American academe since ten years before the AIDS crisis. If you don’t at least know that much, you have absolutely no business trying to educate LGBTQ+ youth about queer history.Trying to censor the word queer from our collective cultural lexicon is 1) impossible. it’s here now. and 2) an erasure of our lineage of scholarship. I could spend all day lobbing criticisms at American academic culture and I do, but queers created space for ourselves in academe. We built a queer world inside the tower that tried its best to keep us out and now we have a place here. I am a queer person and I am a queer scholar. You use whatever words you want to signify who you are and how you live your life and how you love your loves. You won’t hear a peep of criticism from me. All I’m asking is that you do me and mine the courtesy of leaving our collective body of text very much the fuck alone.
I try to keep my nose out of shit like this but today. man. today I encountered something that really ticked me off.
today I met a professor who does queer studies. she told me that her teenage gay son yelled at her recently for using the word “queer” in describing her discipline and demanded to know how the university “could get away with calling it that.”
so of course she’s baffled right, and asks him where on earth this is coming from. and he told her he read it on Tumblr.
listen if you don’t want to be called queer and don’t want to be lumped in with folks who comprise the queer community, that’s fine. that’s totally fine. it is 100% okay. people are allowed to have complicated histories with that word. it’s a fraught signifier. it’s a mess and it’s allowed to be.
what’s not cool is telling young LGBTQ+ people that queer is a slur in all contexts because now you are stripping away not just the language that we use to describe ourselves but also the language that creates the discipline that lets us study our own lives and our cultures. Queer studies has been a part of American academe since the 1970s (possibly earlier, depending on who you ask). “Queer” has been a functioning and largely unproblematic signifier in American academe since ten years before the AIDS crisis. If you don’t at least know that much, you have absolutely no business trying to educate LGBTQ+ youth about queer history.
Trying to censor the word queer from our collective cultural lexicon is 1) impossible. it’s here now. and 2) an erasure of our lineage of scholarship. I could spend all day lobbing criticisms at American academic culture and I do, but queers created space for ourselves in academe. We built a queer world inside the tower that tried its best to keep us out and now we have a place here.
I am a queer person and I am a queer scholar. You use whatever words you want to signify who you are and how you live your life and how you love your loves. You won’t hear a peep of criticism from me. All I’m asking is that you do me and mine the courtesy of leaving our collective body of text very much the fuck alone.
Look let me rephrase this because some of y’all in the notes and certainly everyone in my inbox aren’t getting what I’m trying so say.
“Queer” is a complicated word (I call it a signifier, usually) and there is no easy way of discussing the ethical implications of its usage. Claiming that queer is an umbrella term that’s fine to use in all contexts is irresponsible. Claiming that queer is a slur in all contexts is irresponsible. We all owe it to each other to be conscious of these complexities.
One context where queer is *not* deployed as a slur, and has not been historically, is in an academic context, ie queer studies and queer theory. Telling LGBTQ+ youth that queer is a slur *in those contexts* cuts off their access to a field of study that is *committed* to documenting and sharing the lives and knowledge of *anyone* who feels like they belong in that alphabet soup of marginalized identities. Regardless of how we feel about that word and regardless of our personal histories with it, we owe it to young LGBTQ+ people to give them enough information to make their own choices about how they relate to that signifier. They do not HAVE to be tormented by that word. They DESERVE to try and pursue a future without that trauma.
Queers in academe have finally found a place where we can say who we are in our own terms, where we can be the authors of our own collective histories. Why are some of you so determined to take that away from the next generation of LGBTQ+ scholars before they even have a *chance* to make their own decisions?
angryjewishsuggestion:
fun fact! If you say that Superman is supposed to be a Jesus allegory I’m actually legally allowed to beat you up
destinytomoon:
gothicashworld:destinytomoon: I think is super important know how the term “body diversity” works at the moment when we want to describe any media with a female cast Both above and below work No. Top row doesnt work as body diversity a whole cast of women with the same hour glass figure and two not being slim is not body diversity. Put one character that isnt able boid and or skinny with a bunch of characters who are abled and slim/skinny is not body diverse.
gothicashworld:
destinytomoon: I think is super important know how the term “body diversity” works at the moment when we want to describe any media with a female cast Both above and below work
I think is super important know how the term “body diversity” works at the moment when we want to describe any media with a female cast
Both above and below work
No. Top row doesnt work as body diversity a whole cast of women with the same hour glass figure and two not being slim is not body diversity. Put one character that isnt able boid and or skinny with a bunch of characters who are abled and slim/skinny is not body diverse.
pissvortex:
when op-ed writers say that bernie and his supporters make then feel unsafe it’s not because LeftistDad69🌹 is replying to them with a picture of a corncob on twitter it’s because they feel that their politics and, more importantly, their finances are threatened.pissvortex:the whole liberal media coming out to uniformly denounce bernie sanders is 100% rooted in the fact that he is a percieved threat to capital. any new york times asshole trying to convince you that it’s about his record or his optics is lying to you.
when op-ed writers say that bernie and his supporters make then feel unsafe it’s not because LeftistDad69🌹 is replying to them with a picture of a corncob on twitter it’s because they feel that their politics and, more importantly, their finances are threatened.
the whole liberal media coming out to uniformly denounce bernie sanders is 100% rooted in the fact that he is a percieved threat to capital. any new york times asshole trying to convince you that it’s about his record or his optics is lying to you.
quiteliterallyhotsauce:
Absolutely necessary