"Where do I stand on the -- on the WHAT? The "Transgender Question"? Well for one thing, sir, I recall the last few usages of that particular phraseology. A group of millions is not a question -- I have not yet finished speaking -- not a question, but a demographic."
"The Romans had their castrated priestesses, the Hindus their Hijras, but my god, let us take to the barricades because Uncle Al came to Thanksgiving in a skirt and pantyhose! It's the province of rubes. Hayseed reactionaries and the worst effluvia of America's suburban colon."
"And Chapelle! My god, Chapelle. Embarrassing as only a true great can become in his declining years -- I speak here with complete self-awareness; kindly hold your barbs -- as he tires of innovation and falls back into the soporific cushion of the lowest common denominator!"
"One joke stretched until you can hear its joints popping like some poor bastard broken on the rack. "Oh my car has pronouns, I identify as a bird, I'm trans-Chinese." The laziness of it -- shameful. You should see the transgendered roast themselves; there's true scorched earth."
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Mr. Welles and the president enjoy a cordial relationship.
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"I had not intended to mention Gervais -- one forgets the presence of rodents about one's feet so easily -- but the man insists on rearing up onto his haunches to squeak for the camera. A gerbil which has somehow mastered the projection of smugness. Repellent."
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My political goals for the existence of trans people do not include assimilation into or acceptance by the ruling polity. They do not include separating the fight for my rights from the fight for the rights of other oppressed groups.
I will not devote my energies or resources to the maintenance of a power that might protect me while it aids in the genocide of others. I will not treasure my own feeling of safety above the blood and freedom of others.
If a strike disrupts trans medical care, I am with the striking laborers. If a party offers to shield me while killing others, I am against that party. There is no room to negotiate. I have no interest in indulging in my own victimhood to excuse my complacency and culpability.
I had a moment of existential panic last month that maybe all the just-asking-questions transphobes had some kind of point I was missing, so I looked over contemporary and historic studies, read prominent anti-trans writers' work, and my conclusion is they're all totally insane.
Just completely brains-boiled-in-skulls deranged, a combination of social sadism, overreach followed by doubling down and getting backed into demented rhetorical positions, and unexamined revulsion justified after the fact with hearsay and anecdotes -- often totally fabricated!
You want to talk about social contagion, this whole thing is a mind virus propagating from one person to the next because a few elites overreacted to their own disgust at trans people and now find themselves defending extremely intense, hostile statements.
"Pain is how your body talks to you. You'd do well to listen to it."
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BONE TOMAHAWK
Our month of cannibal movies begins with S. Craig Zahler's pitch-black horror western, a nihilistic descent into subhuman violence dealing with complex and ugly notions of colonialism, civilization, and barbarism.
The pundit class never backs down or admits a mistake because to do so would be to acknowledge the fundamental dangerous uselessness of their position.
Everything is secondary to the pundit's right to do and say whatever they want at any time, and to challenge their often lazy and bigoted reporting is to threaten their existence.
In his response to the open letter to the NYT standards department Chait acknowledges the wave of anti-trans legislation sweeping the country, but fails to note that the NYT finds itself cited frequently in such lawmaking. He does not seem to register the connection.
People are always like "oh so you think there should be more rape in fiction? well then you must want to see people have diarrhea in books" and like aside from the fact that this is a cruel, stupid comparison, yes I do think books should include more pooping in general.
i am a little bitch sucker for stories about medieval aristocrats being shitty and failing and hating themselves, but come on, man, there are a thousand kinds of period tradespeople to tell stories about!
I don't know that I like anything you could honestly call saccharine, but Azumanga Daioh is extremely sweet and low-stakes and I love it with all my heart