#outrage

[lolohe12]

Also as someone who loves children maybe artists shouldn't have to cater their concerts to how appropriate they are for kids? Maybe it should be on the parents if their kids are allowed to go the a concert that might have suggestive content? The same thing happened when Lil Nas X released Montero and people were outraged that he did something so sexual while kids loved Old Town Road (a song with the lyrics "Riding on a tractor, Lean all in my bladder" and "My life is a movie, Bull riding and boobies" so it was never for kids anyway...), but it's not on Lil Nas X to stay kid friendly. Nor is it on Sabrina Carpenter, Britney Spears, Olivia Rodrigo, or any other artist that I've heard this same puritanical art policing for. "But they were Disney stars, of course they're for kids!" unless they are performing under the Disney label they are under no obligation to perform as such. Justin Timberlake was also a Disney star AND he is in the Trolls movies but he never gets treated like his concerts are for kids; people just don't like women and queer people showing they can be sexual.

People mad about Sabrina Carpenter's provocative performances for Juno are so tired, mind your fucking business. "Think about the kids at her shows!!" Most of the people attending her shows are grown women and this is the same exact shit people pressed Britney Spears about when she grew into herself and started to express more of her sexuality. And I will say if kids are too young to witness her innuendos, they won't even pickup on them, I promise you. Male artists have been disgusting and vulgar in their on-stage performances, in their lyrics and videos since the beginning of time without criticism, but a woman gets on stage and makes suggestive moves and society has a meltdown. The truth is, y'all are terrified of the power that women have.

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Caesar before Alexandria by Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini 

[commiepinkofag]

Outrage! sticker, 1991

[doubledaybooks]

“Outrage is conditioned not by the nature of the atrocity but by the affiliation of the victim and the perpetrator.” -Patrick Radden Keefe, SAY NOTHING

[theamoristwriter]

"the night of revolution"

15/8/24

[writing-with-olive]

as someone who has gotten on and then subsequently left both tiktok and instagram, i can pretty confidently say that there is a gulf of difference between staying informed, and believing that information consumption is in itself activism.

similarly, as someone who has gotten into outrage echo chambers and subsequently left them, i can also pretty confidently say that there is a gulf of difference between using indignation as motivation, and believing that stewing in anger is in itself activism.

both are means to an end, but being angry and seeking out reasons to be angry -- without ever building community and using coalition to either address the underlying reason the anger-inducing things happen, or directly provide aid to the people most affected by them -- isn't activsm.

[colonellickburger]

Brenda Prince. Film-maker Derek Jarman on an Outrage demonstration for gay and lesbian rights in London, February 1992

[ijustgotherebro]

FUCK!

[thinky-think-brainblast]

Aang was destined to be a girl dad and the writers just didn’t deliver.

[momentsbeforemass]

Ignoring Jesus

Welcome to another episode of ignoring stuff that Jesus said.

Sometimes it seems like social media is little more than an outrage machine. Where everything you see is someone reacting negatively to something.

Whether it’s an obvious spittle-flecked rant. Or it’s done as a meme. Or it’s a joke that isn’t really a joke. The spirit behind it’s the same.

The reactions these things get? Either mindless shares. Or mocking.

Which just creates more outrage. Followed by more reactions. Like a machine that would go of itself.

While our current tech-driven version is relatively new, the outrage machine (and our love of it) is as old as humanity.

To our love of the outrage machine, Jesus has this to say, “If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone.”

Not “If your brother sins against you, lash out in anger.”

Not “If your brother sins against you, mock him.”

Not even “If your brother sins against you, correct him in public.” Not at first.

Today’s Gospel tells us the steps to take, before ever correcting someone in public.

Most of us ignore those steps. And go right to the public part.

We dump the correction part. Because anger and mocking are a lot easier. And a lot more fun.

We like the rush of the outrage machine way too much to waste our time with all of that Jesus stuff.

But if the words of Jesus ever do get through to us? We’re pretty good at rationalizing them away.

“I’m just telling it like it is.”

Don’t kid yourself.

“I’m just doing it to see how people react.”

No, you’re not.

“It’s just somebody on the Internet.”

Just somebody made in the likeness and image of God. Just somebody who Jesus looks at and says, “even if you’re the only one who needs saving, Good Friday would still happen.”

Which gets us to the whole point of Jesus non-public spectacle approach. To why Jesus says, “If he listens to you, you have won over your brother.”

Jesus’ approach isn’t about being better or better informed than someone. Or even about being right. Much less the addictive pull of the outrage machine. And make no mistake, it is addictive.

Jesus’ approach is all about saving people. About restoring relationships.

About things that can never be achieved with anger or mockery. Things that the outrage machine can never give us.

Jesus’ approach is all about doing it the only way that ever works in the long run.

In the love of God.

Today’s Readings

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[augustsappho]

“Across the town students were fast asleep. Next to them, tomes by Plato and Locke and Montesquieu waited to be read, discussed, gesticulated about; theoretical rights like freedom and liberty would be debated between those who already enjoyed them, stale concepts that, upon their readers’ graduation ceremonies, would promptly be forgotten. That life, and all of its preoccupations, seemed insane to him now; he could not believe there was ever a time when his greatest concerns were what colour neckties to order from Randall’s, or what insults to shout at houseboats hogging the river during rowing practice. It was all such frippery, fluff, trivial distractions built over a foundation of ongoing, unimaginable cruelty”

"Babel" R.F. Kuang - ch.22 pg.434

This is generally applicable to the universal experience of putting things into a better perspective from the pov of a student. How living through horrors or simply witnessing them miles and miles away can be enough to shake an anger to your core and wash your eyes so that they now see differently than they did yesterday. "How strange! How could that have really seemed like the end of the world to me! I had no idea! I really had no idea what was to come!" Though I will admit unis in London have been so very incredibly good at advocating for Palestine, UCL, Kings, Golds, QMUL, all of you! I love you!

[arbuthnotblob]

Sometimes I think he should get Outrage berserker powers, as a treat! Just lay eyes on Giovanni and spontaneously combust into red-blue flames - saves all the hassle of even getting Dragonite out to use Hyper Beam 😌

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[biribaa]

First scene idea i had for AI Christmas Party pt 2 ughhhgggf

[lesserknownbots]

outrage from outrage (webcomic)

[dk-thrive]

A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I have a mad impulse to smash something, a warehouse perhaps, or a cathedral, or myself, to commit outrages.

― Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf (S. Fischer Verlag, 1927) (via Alive on All Channels)