#performatic

[duoscopic]

Joshua William Gelb

[terfism-unmasked]

it's interesting how someone was literally pointing out how her "feminism" is entirely performative and even at that it relies on utopian and impossible ideals so it's just a pretense for her to do absolutely nothing to actually help people and somehow label it feminism regardless and her response was "yaassss!". presented without comment

[doghartzy]

honestly feel like you can't fully understand why the nhl functions the way it does unless you have an in-depth understanding of american conservatism specifically. like. the nhl is run by a collection of people who function on conservative nostalgia, purposeful obtuseness, and a direct opposition to progressivism. they're the type of american traditionalists who think that we should go back to the good old days when people respected their elders and didn't think too hard about things like civil rights or what equity actually means. they believe in a homogenous culture of assimilation and obedience, and they rely on the people within that culture to perpetuate it via mutual surveillance. it's what the wealthy white american right has always been, especially since wwii and the cold war after it. and it's what the nhl has always been. it's a culture that is determined to keep itself locked away in the 1980s while the world around it evolves, and as it grows farther removed from the world it exists in, the more reactionary it gets. it's fucking. every 70 year old republican senator who refuses to step down until they keel over dead in congress. that's it. that's all.

[who-the-fuck-is-sennalye]

I've never liked the RUOK campaign and if you want to know why, I just got a RUOK ad sponsored by Nescafe (owned by Nestle)

[ansu-gurleht]

just saw a post that kind of pissed me off? like it was a good post about amab enbies and the treatment they tend to get from the broader community but then the reblogs devolved into people chanting “amab enby rights” like that kind of performatism isn’t part of the problem

[regheart]

there's something i find particularly annoying in this fandom and it's the way purebloods are written as highly sophisticated extremely rich and straight up a rip off of regency period novels

i understand the choice of this specific portrayal, i can see it as an approximation to historical drama, where the social restrictions are compelling and are relevant to the story, and a good writer can make any concept believable and good

HOWEVER as much as the worldbuilding on wizarding costumes (and a lot of other things) is extremely inconsistent and gets progressively worse towards the later three books, the implications that i see don't point towards this version of a sophisticated performatic elite who interacts only with itself

while i tend to see the blood status in the harry potter universe as a distinction of class and not at all a distinction of race, i don't think the difference is, in practice, as marked as it is in real world contexts, mostly because of how numerically small and insulated the wizarding community is

this post is part of my personal vendetta against purebloods as charming aristocrats & what appears to be the necessity of writing each and all of them as so very well spoken and politically savvy and never-caught-dead-speaking-to-a-half-blood

for once, the sacred twenty-eight is extra canon information and is disputed IN UNIVERSE, because it was anonymously published and received backlash for the inclusion (weasley, ollivander) and exclusion (crabbe, goyle, potter) of certain names

the malfoys are the only extremely rich family we see in canon. extra canon information tells us they made money before the statute of secrecy by trading with muggles

compare that to the potters who are also very rich (there's no scale to tell us who is the richer family), but made most of their money from the invention of sleakezy in the 20th century

the blacks are also implied to be wealthy: sirius manages to live off his inheritance after buying harry an expensive broom, and he says his grandfather likely paid for an order of merlin

there's a lot to be said about the blacks (e.g. they should have at least a couple more properties other than grimmauld place), but the big picture and the similarity with the gaunts (not about the incest, stop fixating on that) suggest they were a family in decadence by the time sirius was growing up

i believe that the implication is that neither of them had a proper job, which creates a similarity with gentry, but gentry lived off rentals and while it is possible they had a country state i don't think grimmauld place was making a lot of money

lucius malfoy also didn't work and spent a portion of his time being a school counselor (and obviously not being paid for it, as it was a way to exercise his political power over the main learning institution in his community)

it's also extra canon that the nott family had equal footing with the malfoys, so we can assume that crabbe, goyle, parkinson and bulstrode were slightly beneath them, either in social standing or money, despite the later two being part of the sacred twenty-eight (or it could appear to be so because pansy and milicent are girls)

the weasleys are obviously the main example of a poor sacred twenty-eight family, as were the gaunts

the crouch family was most like rich (they could afford a house elf), but it's likely that most of that money came from mr. crouch having a high level ministry job. his family and connections were probably an advantage to getting the job, but it's possible he wouldn't be able to maintain the lifestyle without work

longbottom, prewett and macmillan are families that appear to be very traditional, but not remarkably wealthy

other working members of the sacred twenty-eight are: horace slughorn (school teacher, but it can be argued that teaching hogwarts is a prestigious position), garrick ollivander (wand maker and shop owner, but, again, the only wand maker, which holds a certain prestige in itself), mr. burke (shop owner), arthur weasley (ministry employee), frank longbottom and kingsley shacklebolt (both aurors). amycus and alecto carrow are also temporary hogwarts teachers

the blacks married out of the sacred twenty-eight many times (max, gamp, crabbe, potter)

all of these people and every single muggleborn goes to the same school, buys magical supplies at the same place, drinks from the same pubs, etc. that alone should serve as evidence that there aren't many exclusive pureblood hangouts around

the only place that seems to attract the malfoys (arguably the richest and most important pureblood family in the 90s) and not most other people, is the knockturn alley, which is hardly a high brow sophisticated spot

except for malfoy and flint, no slytherin quidditch player during the 90s is in the sacred twenty-eight, so that's hardly a criterion for making it into the team

mulciber is not a sacred twenty-eight name, they could very well be half-bloods

tom riddle and severus snape were half-blood students who formed ties with purebloods while in school and held blood supremacist views, assimilation to a certain level was possible

[perasperaadpasta]

Between the widespread initial response of "it's all a transphobic conspiracy! (against some other guy!)" and the "I'll wait for a verdict :) I'll remain neutral until he's found guilty by a court of law :)))))))" you people could not possibly prove harder what dumbfuck hypocrites you are.

Superficial, performatic, empty.

You clearly never assed yourselves to learn a single comma about institutionalized misogyny, about sex biases in the justice system, about reporting, investigation and conviction rates for sexual offences, about real power dynamics.

You parrot slogans with your full chest that all cops are bastards and believe victims but the atom split second you have to actually practice it it's well, cops will handle this, let's hear the rapist' side before we believe victims (maaaybe), to be FAIR, in this completely equitable system.

White first worlders will trample each other trying to be the most allyest non-racist who listens to minorities the mostest completely oblivious to the fact THEY are talking over us, and then not even pretend they give a shit when their pet white fuck is a sex pest 'cause he did write great works! great shows! some people would literally kill themselves without this one rapist's quintessential two-british-middle-aged-men-get-freaky-pg13-style (there's only ONE of these!).

You stupid spoiled shits.

You're the fucking system, morons. You're the thing victims are afraid will happen if they come forward.

I hate you all so much.

[swagging-back-to]

when i was a kid i was so excited to grow up and to be able to fully experience pride month. I fantasized about month long celebrations, connection, parades, hanging rainbows everywhere and seeing amazing representation. I was only 11 when i had this idea in my mind.

now, not even a decade later, ive completely shunned the idea of pride at all. I hate it. i hate the capitalism, i hate the performatism, i hate the fetish freaks crawling out of the woodwork, i hate the misogynistic and homophobic trans ideology, i hate the rampant homophobia from 'queers', i hate the fact it's referred to as 'queer pride', i hate the 'progress' flag, i hate every single fucking thing about it.

and honestly? im conviced this was the goal. the whole goal was to turn so many gay people against the idea of pride that it slowly fades out of relevancy. and then eventually, there is no pride at all. eventually, there is no gay representation at all. eventually, all that's left is homophobia, misogyny, and transing of everyone and everything.

[assiraphales]

online performatism has honestly gotten so out of hand imo (especially on tik tok). I’ve seen a guy stack two rocks on top of each other by a river just for the comments to scold him “what happened to leave no trace”. a girl bought an ugly sweater from goodwill to repurpose into yarn just for everyone to go “u hate fat ppl? I can’t believe you bought a plus sized shirt just to destroy it”. even just ppl picking up silly little hobbies like resin art just to get screamed at for polluting the earth. what happened to letting ppl exist and have fun? ofc u can try to practice as much sustainability in your life as possible, but in late stage capitalism it is so hard to be ethical. greenwashing, tofu comes in plastic packaging, your vegetables traveled thousands of miles, goodwill is evil etc etc. there r ppl that should be called out (millionaires billionaires corporations) but there comes a point where so called “activism” is just an excuse to be mean

[nostalgicmiscellaneous]

Eloise making a scene at the engagement rubs me wrong. Penelope should tell Colin, we all agree on that, but if you're going to make a scene at the engagement, then you should've told him before. Just tell him, then, and don't make a circus out of an engagement. It makes it look petty and performatic, not really because you're worried about the truth and her brother's feelings.

[feedingicetothedog]

rewind the tape ep 2 question: Why do you think it's important for Louis to maintain the thread of his humanity, specifically by doing so through having a human meal he can't taste?

i had to answer this question bc i'm obsessed w it and what it reveals about louis narratively. i think it's important for louis to keep up the motions of humanity in a way that mimics connection. louis is desperate for authenticity but only if the gesture carries symbolism but the moment one imbues ritual into an action, the action is now a performance even if the audience is just the performer. i've talked about the usage of the golden spoon in this scene before but it adds an extra layer of performatism (in the post-postmodern sense) to the whole scene.

but on top of that performative aspect, i think it's interesting that the gesture of humanity louis chooses to preserve is eating food. this whole ep prominently features louis' struggles w hunting and how his vampiric hunger almost drove him to kill his nephew and further alienated him from his family, his human connections. the interview is also placed entirely in a dining room. daniel eats human food but these meals are more aesthetic than satiating w the presentation of an experimental fine dining establishment while louis drinks blood from a mysterious farm, eats a live fox, and then drinks from a human man all on the other side of the table. the way eating is presented in this ep feels almost hostile. daniel comments that louis "missed" several endangered species in what he chose to serve daniel, ultimately leading daniel to participate in predatory, unethical consumption alongside louis. and i think that's the point. serving daniel these meals attempts to force a reluctant empathy (one that daniel rejects and instead voices his disgust). and then he asks daniel this:

louis does. it's all he contemplates. what he eats and how he eats it symbolizes his separation from humanity. so in this mode of thinking, louis decides to make his tenuous tether to humanity by eating human food once a week. and the dish he chooses in this scene is taken from an emotionally significant moment from daniel's memoir, another act of proposed empathy between him and daniel. and while this moment is softer than the scene w the fox or damek, it still ends in this shot:

louis and daniel are sharing this meal and this moment but they're so far from each other. to me this demonstrates the futility of the gesture. they're physically performing the same action but their experience is so fundamentally different. louis is performing human actions but he is at this point so far removed from the concept

[miasma-my-asthma]

Something I noticed abt internet discussions is that sometimes someone makes a post with 2 different unrelated ideas/opinions with one of them (usually the main idea/opinion) being sound and correct while the other is wrong or lacks tact.

But when someone comments trying to criticize/correct the wrong idea, people, usually OP, take it as a disagreement with the first correct idea and paint the critic as dumb or bigoted or disrespectful for it, and if that reaction works some people even start believing in the wrong idea out of performatism, afraid to look like they disagree with the right opinion

[chadepitanga]

"sit-ins are performatic and cringe, just donate to an NGO" - people who are not protesting and not donating

[f3mcelbambi]

things that have gone wrong

-feeling like a pig in lipstick

-my lashes not sticking to my eye

-my “dad” judging my career

-my mom and “dad” not being able to communicate properly so it’s like their talking a brick wall

-mother and “dad” delaying the time to go to the restaurant

-the performatism of my mother

-my teachers reminding me that i haven’t done my assignments this weekend

-my mother being rude to the restaurant staff

-not being able to fucking see because of my lashes

-the restaurant took my lighter

-me and mother got in a fight

-the wind

[warrenkoles]

the level of performatism to insist that trigger warning for images of a literal genocide is because of apathy or to ignore it. you are NOT superior or more pure or a better person for constantly exposing yourself to images of death and war. it's literally traumatizing. people can share information and help others and be an activist without forcing themselves to watch the videos or see the graphic images. it is a kindness to trigger warn for it since you never know who could be following you and where they come from.

that you would see someone using tw in a tagging system and make these assumptions about them and even go so far as to call them terrible people for doing so tells me all I need to know. you're not in this because you care but because you like to feel better than other people. miss me with that.

[just-antithings]

I think antis tabling at cons isn’t something that happens too often, most antis expressed that they wouldn’t go to cons, I mean they are filled to the brim with the “freaks” in their DNI

of course there will be antis who go to cons as artist, or just guest, but they know they can’t start shit there and wouldn’t get the (same) support they have online where their performatism is supported in their bubbles

Fair point