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ranticore · 12 days ago

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i did not mean to get so deep into the nature of celebrity & pop culture and objectification thereof but it turns out when you're creating a world with virtual celebrities you have to really get into it

#i was talkin to a bestie last night about the shifting window of male gender nonconformity and how it reflects cultural hangups #it kind of shifts back and forth based on backlash #Unicorn being part of a pop duo in the boyband era and displaying the palatable acceptable limit of unmanliness #to appeal to teen girls. n-sync core #vs nico's real and unacceptable degree of gender nonconformity #how he has to see himself chewed up and spit back out in advertising material #material #anyway much to think about. the people smiling and posing in the posters and music videos and on tv are being held there at gunpoint #imimata rampant

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