#sjw costume

[coolerdracula]

the way that they included Mount Rushmore as Barbies for no reason except to be like "look! there were men here but now it's women! #slaayyy!" sort of speaks to how limited their consideration was of doing actual intersectional feminism ... it's just a small detail but to use it as a silly movie prop (in a movie which bolsters American capitalism & labor exploitation via consumerist messages etc, no less) really strips (continues to strip) the site of its violent historical meaning & seems ... idk. cheap

[maykitz]

watched a popular movie so there's a mandatory my complaints and opinions longpost

barbie is a decent comedy with great visuals for sure but i have to say the social justice dialogue was written unbearably, felt like a 2012 bad tumblr post that wouldn't end. the real shame however is that imo the movie refused to take itself seriously even for a minute at crucial moments while making its entire plot about serious things, so it was like, okay, then what's the point.. you're saying patriarchy every other sentence and talking about the incredible pressure on women and having to deal with sexual harassment etc but every single scene is played like we're in beverly hills chihuahua. yes it's a comedy naturally but firstly comedy doesn't have to mean lowbrow slapstick all the time and secondly beverly hills chihuahua understands that it can't have those dogs be talking about abortion and fighting the islamic state with little pink paw pad drones, yknow?

the parody of male identity and masculinity was overall very lacklustre and disappointing too cause it had no bite, it was more like when south park depicts a celebrity as an adult baby- trite and kinda childish and with that air of smugness that tells you the author thinks too highly of themself to even need to flesh it out. which sucks! there's so much about men to satirise and roast lol. gosling is comparably quite old and there wasn't even one hairline or forehead wrinkles comment. sort of a haha gay joke about michael cera's comedic relief character ig? and will ferrell's character could've been wholly scrapped idk what he was even doing there tbh

the big inspiring message about female empowerment, too, is a little bit undercut (haters would say demolished) by there being no bulldagger barbie (or human), margot robie's miraculous powerful ending being that she now dresses and looks exactly like as a doll except her pink shoes are now flats and there's also a breakfast club tier makeover on a teen girl who hates barbie and talks like an sjw courtesy of plebcomics to show that she is now instead happy and pink and loves barbie. and even tho there's 1 fat barbie side character and 1 background wheelchair barbie the topic of unrealistic body proportions (the #1 complaint against barbie dolls!) and beauty pressure is entirely carefully omitted. there's a moment where a narrator coyly acknowledges this like, hehe margot robie is too pretty a casting choice to make this point about feeling ugly. yeah ok but, well. you still did it though. and every other actress too. they even ditched "weird" barbie's destroyed choppy hair + sharpie on face appearance for a put together "punk" outfit with flawless makeup and styled hair. even the destroyed toy can't forego her feminine beauty makeover, and it's only then that the other barbies apologise for ostracising her. big win for looking however you want.

ryan gosling was fantastic though i was really surprised by his singing voice and performance. and i cannot overstate my praise for the costuming and set designs, actual artistry all around

[beardedmrbean]

[Huey Zoomer Anon]

After that DnD hero “fest” and the complaints about Disney Wish and Raya. I realize something

Sjws like non white cultures aesthetics

Not our cultures dynamics, values, and such

“This series is for everyone!” In a gentrified urban area of a city or theme park way

What that thing I learn because I consume shit past kid shows during my development years?

Oh right

NUNACE NUNACE NUNACE NUNACE NUUUUUUUUUUUNAAAAAAAAAACE!

Like I pointed out in my fantasy world building, I showcase that all civilizations and cultures are capable of great compassion and great violence

Oh riiight I don’t have the emotional intelligence of a 5 year old and acts like a proper adult (mostly)

Also the random black person we see in modern fantasy. A lot of people think Yasuke in shadows is that, when in reality they just do a what if continuation and after learning about a certain Southeast Asia group. Oooh someone at ubi found a post shadows goldmine.

But I think they presume every black person is a low self esteem narcissist who infiltrated the creative process while not giving to fucks about actually Africans kingdoms and tribes we can use

Also…African Americans…you know that many African groups created their own entertainment companies and such we can easily collab with?

Oh, just me? Ugh why am I more mentally mature that so many adults in my community?!

After that DnD hero “fest” and the complaints about Disney Wish and Raya. I realize something Sjws like non white cultures aesthetics Not our cultures dynamics, values, and such

I don't know that I'd say SJW's but ya lots of people like to observe or wear cultures like a costume without actually participating in them,

“This series is for everyone!” In a gentrified urban area of a city or theme park way What that thing I learn because I consume shit past kid shows during my development years?

Not really anything out there that shows the real world that's going to resonate with everyone, we all have our own unique stories after all, gotta go for a wide range the best you can.

Also the random black person we see in modern fantasy. A lot of people think Yasuke in shadows is that, when in reality they just do a what if continuation and after learning about a certain Southeast Asia group. Oooh someone at ubi found a post shadows goldmine.

ya he's far from random, still don't understand why people got so bent out of shape over him, guy was real and the story is make believe and constructed using elements of real life, really shouldn't have been a issue.

Make something about Apollo XI and have Buzz be black ya I can see issues there, the annoyance over Yasuke is confusing to me though.

Can't shoehorn someone if they actually existed, even if the story is a bit different.

But I think they presume every black person is a low self esteem narcissist who infiltrated the creative process while not giving to fucks about actually Africans kingdoms and tribes we can use

Writers and such do seem to have that as a fairly common theme

Also…African Americans…you know that many African groups created their own entertainment companies and such we can easily collab with?

Some of them are super successful too, Dre', Jay-Z and Beyonce, Spike Lee, Diddy was rollin in it even if he was scum.

Oh, just me? Ugh why am I more mentally mature that so many adults in my community?!

That's going to be different answers depending on the person and or group being addressed.

Fun times I know, best we can do is be our best self and try to lead by example if we can.

[dalesramblingsblog]

Boom has, of course, reignited Kerblam! discourse, because we live in a cold and uncaring universe. So of course, I'm going to talk about it, because, again, apparently I don't know when to quit.

And look, if you like Kerblam!, I get it. Like genuinely, I do understand why people would like it more than me, taste varies and doctors differ as a wise man once said.

But I have seen at least one person try and push back against what they see as the undue focus on "The systems aren't the problem" by saying "Well, that scene comes before Kira has been killed by the System," to which I would like to humbly and with all the kindness in the world... no, it doesn't.

Like I don't want to come across as some sort of Ben Shapiro-esque "According to facts and logic..." edgelord because I have nothing but disdain for those fuckwits, but on a basic factual level you have made an incorrect claim about the episode. The scene in which Kira dies leads *directly* into the scene where the Doctor says "The systems aren't the problem." Ryan's first line in the scene is literally "Kira's dead." To say that the Doctor is unaware of Kira's death at the hands of the System when she says "The systems aren't the problem" is incorrect.

This isn't some unpardonable sin, and I don't wish to ascribe deliberate malice to this error because that does nobody any good and I'm sick and tired of fandom discourse. But, y'know, it's there, and it's weird.

Why can some people not just like Kerblam! without telling falsehoods about the episode in its defence, inadvertently or otherwise? It's OK to like things while also conceding that they have problems, but fandom in general tends to have some problems with this.

It's not enough to like Kerblam! even in spite of the fact that its politics might not be the most sound ever devised - and frankly, while I love it, Doctor Who has some recurrent ethical blind spots that severely limit how often it can truly be cast as anything within a million miles of "revolutionary" - no, Pete McTighe has to be the second coming of Karl Marx.

It's not enough to enjoy The Talons of Weng-Chiang on some level for its good parts while conceding that it is a fundamentally racist text. No, it must be a wholly blameless piece of art that some hissy SJWs are trying to take away from "real fans" who can see clearly that the biggest problem here is a dodgy rat costume.

What is my point here? I honestly don't know. I have, frankly, next to zero interest in becoming a recurring character in the Kerblam! Discourse Cinematic Universe, but I was nevertheless struck by a weird trend of (if I'm being charitable, and I generally like to be where I can) unconscious pseudo-revisionism of a controversial episode.

Alright, nothing to see here, please disperse.

[archtroop]

Ok I'll be saying this, and damn it all.

Not watching The Flash because of Ezra Miller is a childish, sjw-ish, anti behavior.

This is NOT Miller's personal movie. Miller is just ONE actor within this project. Miller is ONE cog (a big and important, yet just ONE) in this machine. By boycotting a project, that involves hundreds if not more talents, screenwriters, producers, actors, directors, tech people, music people, visuals people, costume people, ART PEOPLE, you are spitting in the face of a whole workforce, that whole its crime was to sign a contract on a project along one other person who turned out to be a No Good Guy.

Whatever Miller did, doing and will do, should not ever be a stain over people, ESPECIALLY ARTISTS, who chance would have them working on the same project with them. That is not OK. That is not anywhere along the lines of justice. This is cruel.

This is a "FeelGood" behavior for consumers. A trendy action with zero significance and 100% bad taste.

The production and management did all they can to minimize Miller's upfollowed involvement in the press releases and commercials and interviews for the movie. What you can do is respect the efforts of the crew that worked on the project. The actors who put their best in it. The writers.

Whatever will be of This One Person is up for the courts to decide. If there is a rehabilitation, a sentence a jail time - it's not up to any of the audience to decide. It is not the case for the guillotine.

This movie is not a product of one person, not Miller's personal message to the world, not a cult leader's manifesto. The movie is not a hate crime, not a propaganda created by one Ezra Miller. It's not theirs.

It's a superhero movie, in which Miller stars as an actor.

If Jews can listen AND ENJOY Wagner's music so you can put your big boy pants on and watch THIS movie.

And if YOU personally don't like superheros, and won't be watching it, that's fine.

And if YOU personally don't like the character and not interested in Flash, and won't be watching it, that's fine.

But if you want to watch it, but won't because of ONE actor? You are doing a great disservice to the filmmakers, the other actors and to yourself.

Think about it.

[khodorkovskaya]

15.06.23

so today was eventful and uneventful at the same time. i had my lesson with lucien this morning, then went to the library, then there was the q&a session with the differential geometry assistant, then i went back to the library. so i was quite productive but it didn't really feel like it.

i started watching the new video lauren southern put out about her divorce. and likeee. she's so cringe idk. youtube's been forcing tradwife content on me lately. like i think it started with me watching fashion shorts, then i started getting a bunch of those like "dark femininity" and "old money aesthetic" videos and now it's straight up "here's how i became a traditional wife". like im so glad im not an impressionable teenager anymore. because imagine. like back in the day we had our fair share of brain rotting anti-sjw content but nowadays it's even worse.

but anyway, back to lauren southern. she's so stupid! like idk if it's her neurodivergency or what. and i want to be empathetic. but like. the decisions she's made and still makes like. girlie.

it's funny bc i skimmed thru a video essay the other day about like tumblr culture and microlabels and mogai and stuff like that. and it wasn't a super interesting video bc being on tumblr you kind of absorb all of this information against your will lol. but the person was saying that basically a lot of neurodivergent teenage girls found those microlabels and various neo gender identities comforting. because a lot of neurodivergent people feel the need to like organise everything into categories and assort and classify everything in their brains. and when the video essay author said that i was like oof i feel that so deeply. like my whole personality basically consists of lists and categories i feel very strongly about for no logical reason. everything i like or identify as has to be sorted and classified into "favourites" and "hate lists" and different levels and ranks and stuff. so i do think that if i grew up even more chronically online than i did, i could've definitely been some kind of surrealgenderkin neopronouns weirdo.

and i was thinking about that and how growing up with this kind of weirdly wired brain was very strange. because i could never like something in moderation, no, i always had to be obsessed. and i couldn't just be obsessed, there were always some kind of rules i had to follow. i had to classify my obsession, study it deeply and behave accordingly. i had to absorb it all and become my obsession.

and the funny thing about this, is that no matter how consumed id always felt by my obsessions, it was all very surface level. it felt like trying on an intricately made beautifully detailed costume, but a costume nevertheless. like when i went thru that lizzy-grant-i-like-older-men phase, it was never about actually liking older men or actually being attracted to them or actually believing that it was natural to be attracted to older men, or whatever bullshit i would say. it was about being consumed by the aesthetic of it, all while convincing myself that if i pretend and fit in hard enough into the cage i had once again forced upon myself, this lifestyle will finally make me feel at peace. and every time i would try on a different belief system, a different political point of view, etc, i would just try to follow the rules of it and force the dogmas of it onto myself, without digging deeper or asking myself why and if i actually liked the thing i was obsessed with.

like it's weird and it's illogical. but ive always perceived the world as something that comes upon you from the outside that you have to get used to. meanwhile in reality, your opinions, desires and beliefs come from within you. and ive only figured that out literally this year.

so i remember being a teen, struggling with trying to find peace with transitioning into a young woman, trying on different belief systems, convincing myself that one of them has to hold the truth. but it was the wrong way to look to begin with! you have to find your values first and then see if maybe they align with anyone else's. not the other way around! it sounds stupid when i say that, but when all you've been doing your whole life is classifying things and sorting all of your interests into boxes, you don't ever realise that your thoughts can come from within! you feel like an empty vessel, needing to be filled with obsessions from the outside world. but those obsessions will never make you feel at peace because you have to produce your own thoughts and beliefs and have your own values. and that concept is still very hard for me to grasp.

so now this is where i see the problem with lauren southern. i feel like she too was in the same scenario with her failed marriage. as a young woman she became an anti-sjw activist and then pushed herself further and further to the right, all while having the most basic and surface-level understanding of it. she followed all the steps laid out for her by the ideology she chose: be catholic, marry a man, have a child, be a housewife. and shocker! those weren't her values to begin with. so she became unhappy.

and there's something so relatable about that. like i remember being obsessed with B, the same way id be obsessed with anything. i pushed this obsession on myself and then tried to convince myself that it was for me, all while staying superficial, never questioning my choices or values. why did i like B? why was B a good fit for me? why did i have to be with him? i don't know, i just had to. it was some supernatural force i guess, convincing me that i had to follow those rules in my brain in order to be happy. but why? i never asked myself the question.

and now lauren is like "i married the guy bc he promised me i could be a housewife and he was catholic and traditional". like you see how superficial that is? it's literally the same story as collecting microlabels like pokemon bc your neurodivergent brain finds it satisfying. like catholic man? check. traditional catholic man? check. housewife status with traditional catholic man? check. baby with traditional catholic man? check. but now what's next? what's the essence of it all? why did you convince yourself that this was good for you? do you even know why you believe what you claim to believe? it's all for aesthetics and obsessive compartmentalisation.

anyway, i didn't watch the whole video because it's like an hour+ long and i have shit to do. but i did watch a bit of lana lokteff's reaction to it. and god she's such a vile woman. like as soon as i saw the thumbnail of her video in the recommended bar i had a vomit reflex lol. but in her video she was basically scolding lauren for making bad choices and not thinking things through, all while saying how marriage is so much deeper than what meets the eye and marriage is great basically. and yeah, you can't argue with that. marriage isn't just some life trophy to collect, it's a whole thing. but does the altright ever explain that to women? are those tradwives making tiktoks showing what marriage actually is? all rightwing women hear is "get married, have kids, it's great" and that's it. and if your understanding of the world is flawed because of the weird mechanics of your brain, you're gonna understand just that. and marry the first catholic man you meet like lauren southern. and be unhappy because you were never taught to question why.

[rightnouveau]

I am unique

[thebillyengland]

Get ready for Democrat Virtue Signaling Olympics next month come Halloween.

[creepykuroneko]

I agree with everything above except for the statement, "the Revival of fascism". Sorry everyone but fascism never went anywhere. It's been around for a long time and in every single country. If you look into any country's history you'll find the banning of any and all media (often created by marginalized individuals), based on absurd claims.

Since I've been on Tumblr well over a decade I remember the sjw era. Honestly this was one of my biggest problems with the sjw ideology. Everyone who claim to be a sjw, had good intentions yet somehow did a 360 and ended up coming off with really conservative right wing views. If you consumed any media that had even the slightest bit of problematic content you were a bad person according to them. People would talk about how, "oh if you watch this movie that makes you a bigot who agrees with everything the actors, director, crew, and costume designer have ever done." Obviously that is not a true statement. These same people of course would then turn around and reblog photos of their favorite celebrity who was a well-known documented bigot. But that's different I guess because it's their favorite celebrity.

The reason I bring that up is because that entire movement has led to a lot of problems in our society (especially gen Z) that we're still seeing the aftermath of today. I know a lot of conservative man babies have cried about how you can't say anything these days without someone trying to cancel you. Just want to say, yes these men babies are full of shit and I have no problem calling out people on their bigotry. I do worry tho about how a lot of people who claim to be on the left are so quick to automatically censor something without understanding its full context or why it exists.

You know these people. They are the no Kink at Pride, Ban's a book because it includes the N-word even though the book is about the history of slavery in america, lgbt+ people who get mad when other LGBT+ people (especially the ones over the age of 50) use the words queer, fag, tranny, and Dyke to describe themselves, disabled is derogatory they are differently disabled, that mentally ill person called themselves crazy clearly they are ablest because crazy is a slur, you have to censor rape as r*ape because just seeing the word rape will trigger survivors, etc.

This is why over the last several years I've seen a lot of discussions online talking about how you need to learn critical thinking skills and not be a reactionary. It's important to know why something is considered controversial. Is it really because the creator had some messed up views? Or is it because it is making those in power uncomfortable? Is it exposing governments for their tyranny and genocide? Or is it actually glorifying something horrible? Is it a book about the USA's role in implementing their own dictators in Latin American countries? Or is it a book by a Neo-Nazi wanting to insight violence?

“Authors should not be ALLOWED to write about–” you are an anti-intellectual and functionally a conservative

“This book should be taken off of shelves for featuring–” you are an anti-intellectual and functionally a conservative

“Schools shouldn’t teach this book in class because–” you are an anti-intellectual and functionally a conservative

“Nobody actually likes or wants to read classics because they’re–” you are an anti-intellectual and an idiot

“I only read YA fantasy books because every classic novel or work of literary fiction is problematic and features–” you are an anti-intellectual and you are robbing yourself of the full richness of the human experience.

[machetelanding]

[rptv-tolkien]

Public Service Announcement from Thranduil, the elven king

[sometimes-men-need-help-too]

This was from a redditor on a post about 'cultural appropriation' and a what not to wear for Halloween. Seriously y'all, stop being offended on the behalf of others for stuff like this! I have indian in me and I don't care if others wear an indian costume. I'm gonna wear one myself! Ponder this one, woke tumblr

[siryouarebeingmocked]

Remember Birds of Prey?

Loads of SJWs praised the costumes of the movie, even though a) the costumes were hideous, and b) Harley was showing more skin than she did in Suicide Squad.

For capt marvel, I remember when one feminist/radfem implied men were so sexist that they, um, didn't care that Brie Larson is conventionally attractive, which is a weird flex.

Not to mention the whole "she's not showing much emotion in the trailer" -> "Oh, you think women need to SMILE all the time!?" strawman.

One of the gross things about the Left is that when media comes out that isn't to their liking, they will unremittingly complain about it, even if they aren't the target audience.

However, when something comes out that they like and the Right isn't a fan of, they will chant, over and over again, that IT'S NOT FOR YOU.

No feminist ever says "well, I don't like this, but it's not for me, so I'll just be moving along." They insist that absolutely every franchise has to appeal to them. It's psychotic.

[theultimatea]

Unpopular Opinion

People who go on and on about “cultural appropriation” really take the fun out of Halloween. It’s just a costume, it’s really not that deep.

[magiesheartlove]

Moments like these make me SO happy I never went to college in the states... and proud to be Latina. ☺️

[risaonda]

youtube fucking finally started recommending me weird ass videos and honestly? it’s about damn time