what is it abt south park that makes teenagers watching it black out and write WILDLY out of character yaoi of the racist egg children
it’s frustrating when you’re talking about an inherently oppressive institution that dehumanizes everyone who is subjected to it and someone is like “it’s especially bad for those it is incorrectly applied to!” as though being the intended victim of an injustice makes it less of a tragedy
been thinking about this lately after some discussions about historical marriage where people have chimed in about how extra awful it would have been for trans men forced into The Wife Role because of dysphoria. which like. yeah. but the thing about The Wife Role in the context of not having civil rights and being the property of a husband is that it is inherently dysphoria-inducing to anyone who identifies as a human being instead of an object.
i got bullied for being the anime obsessed class weaboo in middle school which did funny things to my brain because now whenever i make or order japanese food i feel the urge to add on 'not BECAUSE its japanese, i just like it' which is sort of an insane thing to want to clarify. like i'm imagining ordering a pizza and then adding on 'and also i'm normal about italians' quite frankly it opens more questions than it answers.
Why healing wound so itchy if itching wound while healing so bad????????
No I am normal human who can leave bandages alone do not do NOT get the cone. I am recovering normal.style NOT dog style.
i always convince myself i dont sound that weird and then i go out in the world and get involved in anything longer than transactional small talk and its like ohhh thats right ive only been hanging out with gay people who speak in riddles
As a young boy in school, Masaki Sashima would be dragged out of his classroom and beaten by his fellow students.
Masaki, now 72, was different to the other kids.
He was Ainu, an Indigenous people from the country's northern regions, most notably the large island of Hokkaido.
"During recess, the hallway door would open, and several guys would yell at me to come out," he said.
"I clung to my desk in the classroom and kept quiet.
"Everyone would surround me and beat me."
Japan has long portrayed itself as culturally and ethnically homogenous, something that some have even argued is a key to its success as a nation.
More than 98 per cent of Japanese people are descendants of the Yamato people.
But the Ainu are distinct, with their own history, languages, and culture.
But, as the victims of colonialism, assimilation, and discrimination, much of that identity has been lost.
An Ainu woman named Chiri Yukie wrote down some of her people's oral traditions into Japanese because, as a child, her people were being displaced by Japanese settlers in Hokkaido. Her language was disappearing, so she (ironically) saw translating the stories into Japanese as a way to preserve them. She died at age 19.
ALT
ALT
ALT
ALT
ALT
ALT
ALT
ALT
ALTSome of the objects from the Ainu exhibition at Japan House in London this year, showcasing traditional Ainu skills and culture. There is a campaign to get Ainu recognised as an official language, at least in Hokkaido, and small steps are happening, for example, bilingual bus stops. It reminds me of the struggle for Welsh to be revived after suppression for centuries.
second image ID: the cover of The Song The Owl God Sang: The collected Ainu legends of Chiri Yukie, Translated into English by Benjamin Peterson. end ID
Also, this is a good short ~25 minute documentary that shows Ainu people fighting to recover their ancestral bones and bodies from Hokkaido University that's worth a watch.
It's so funny when someone uses "media literacy" to mean "deciphering and agreeing with the author's intended message in a piece of fiction". Like there are people who legitimately have never considered that it's not only possible but quite common for elements of a text to convey a different (and sometimes directly contradictory) message than the one the author deliberately intended the text to convey, and thus sometimes what the author wanted to say and what parts of the text are actually saying are Not The Same Thing.
Inspired by a reply I saw about how the message of The Incredibles is that Being Yourself Is Cool and if you walked away with any other interpretation you clearly have "piss-poor media literacy". Like I don't doubt that's at least partially what the authors intended to make but sometimes "media literacy" involves looking at what a text is saying Beyond the message the authors consciously intended for it to say (e.g. what it says if the movie beings in a situation where the main character's obstacle to Being Himself is being deprived of his status as a legally unaccountable vigilante despite the fact that it's a status he deserves because he and people like him are Special)