realized a second ago that bardock's name sneakily fits into the son family theme and i'm going to need some time to process that.
to elaborate:
goku (悟空) and his sons gohan (悟飯) and goten (悟天) all have the same first character (悟, read as go).
bardock, rather obviously, is named after the vegetable burdock. more specifically, after the greater burdock, or arctium lappa, which is very common in japan. his name, バーダック (bādakku) is just the japanese transliteration of the english word.
what's the japanese word? ゴボウ. 牛蒡. gobou. 悟蒡.
he was one of them all along.
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Okay I did get distracted by a grade being posted and I am about to be both a nerd and a millennial but god ngl I do hate classes where you get full points on all your assignments but don't actually get any actual feedback on them. What is the point. If it's a class where everyone gets passing grades for making the effort but you get actual feedback and comments, that's great! But I would genuinely rather get points docked and get extensive comments on what I did well and what needed improvement and why than this.
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"Are Gen Z a bunch of prudes? Or do their attitudes about sex reflect their material conditions?" --Abigail Thorn (Philosophy Tube, "Why We Can't Build Better Cities")
Turning this one over in my mind bc as a zillenial it's been very frustrating to watch this prudishness develop among my age bracket, but the point that our environments shape our subjectivities, and more specifically, that the loneliest generation in decades living in greater isolation than ever due to the fact that we can't afford to hang out in public where we might meet people, and therefore are becoming choosier about with whom we spend time and form intimate connections, might have something to do with the rise of sex negativity among the youth
When you can't afford to learn how to form relationships with people, the idea of trusting people, of potentially trusting strangers with your vulnerable body, becomes anxiety-inducing. The idea of being witnessing a stranger in that vulnerability becomes scary and uncomfortable.
Young people today are more socially anxious than ever. And I'm young people, okay? I have been getting better but I still dread making phone calls and I can rarely work up the nerve to leave a voice mail (that's a RECORDING if I'm awkward they might hear it MORE THAN ONCE there will be EVIDENCE). I do not have friends in my state, much less my city. If I'd never been exposed to sexuality and kink outside of sex-negative environment I was raised in, I would still have some horrible ideas about sex and purity. I fortunately found good sex ed and sex- and kink-positive spaces online in my late teens, but abstinence-only sex ed still dominates schools, which for many people are the last place they have enough contact with the same people over a long enough period of time to form any meaningful connections.
Or were, before COVID happened, anyway.
Idk it's late and I need to get to bed but I'm just. Keeping this in mind as we talk about the resurgence of purity culture among youth. Doubtless it's not the only factor, but it's likely a big one that I hadn't considered before
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