#The best thing about Barbie (2023) is probably Ryan Gosling who method acted too hard
Every time I see this man, all I can think of is Billy the goat man in TAZ: Amnesty. Like if Ryan-as-Ken had said pizza at any point in this film, I would’ve lost it.
This is a fully finished one-shot. Shout out to the anon who asked me for a sex worker story a number of months ago!
TEASER:
As Five was busy examining his knuckles to make sure there was no damage he couldn’t feel, Lucy came outside and lit a cigarette. She was as elegant and composed as ever, her dark skin radiant in the sliver of moonlight that reached the alley. She sighed and turned to Five.
“I’m about to ask a favor, Mx. Monroe,” she said. “I expect you to refuse, because it’s not in your contract. But this patron has me at wits’ end.”
“The one who just got out of Arkham?” Five asked hesitantly.
“The one who just escaped from Arkham,” Lucy corrected.
The discourse on twitter of the past couple of days has demonstrated just how little people (in the West, at least) know about how horrific the Imperial Japanese Army was. They know nothing of things like human experimentation at Unit 731, the Rape of Nanking in China, biological warfare against Chinese civilians, the Manila Massacre in the Philippines, the Sook Ching massacre in Singapore, torturing and even cannibalizing some Allied prisoners of war, the fact that the IJA’s atrocities started before WWII and that something like the Second Sino-Japanese War even happened, in general the killing of millions of Chinese civilians under their colonial operation (the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere), the kidnapping and sexual slavery of “comfort” women across the Pacific…Like there’s this weird rewriting of history on twitter like Japan was a victim in WWII, but while Japanese civilians in Hiroshima and Nagasaki were, the Imperial Japanese Army was decidedly not! There’s a reason why Article 9 of Japan’s post-WWII constitution essentially bans them from declaring war and having any real military of their own (seriously, go read the text of the article, it’s wild). Their policy, endorsed by Hirohito, was literally the 3-all’s: “kill all, burn all, loot all.”
People can be against nuclear weapons and anti-Japanese racism without, you know, whitewashing an imperial empire that terrorized the Pacific and murdered millions.
Also the movie makes the point that nukes are bad. I have no idea what this discourse is about, it’s bizarre.
A Jewish man during a time of extermination so profound that the global Jewish population has still not recovered participates in creating a weapon to intended to help end the conflict that is eradicating his people, and he still comes to the conclusion that the work has been evil. Please use your brain everyone.
Magnus Hirschfeld (1868–1935) was a German JEWISH doctor and a leading researcher of sex, sexuality, and gender. He wrote and lectured widely on these topics, treated and advised patients, and worked to promote the rights of those who did not conform to existing gender or sexual norms. After Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor in 1933, Hirschfeld was forced to live in exile. The Nazis vandalized his Institute for Sexual Science in Berlin and forced it to close.
Not only have Jews been targets for millennia so saying ‘x non jewish group was targetted first is ahistorical, Jews have been blamed for queerness and targeted for “corrupting” gentiles into it for a long time and the Nazis bought into that and their attack on queer people was rooted in and inseparable from antisemitism
Male tits and girl dicks are NORMAL they are 100% normal to me and not just in a sex way but also like, if you are ftm and wanna chill with your boobs out no bra/binder or are mtf and wanna chill in boxers or underwear with a bulge why the hell not? It’s just body parts ya know.
Why does it have to be inherently sexualized by people? If you DO find it sexy that’s ok but I’m referring to transphobes who treat trans peoples bodies as some kind of… “scary”thing
trans bodies are either fetishized or deemed disgusting and in neither of which do the people doing it recognize the trans person as a human being deserving of equal respect and i think thats the core problem. lack of respect
All of this. And these sentiments should apply to intersex and nonbinary bodies, too!
not to go all cringe on main but fictional characters have genuinely helped me through some of the worst shit in my life n i’ll forever be grateful to fiction for giving me comfort when i’ve needed it most
Idk a lot of the backlash to broadening who falls under what terms comes from the need to distinctly fall under the specific label you worked towards…but distance from adjacent labels only limits your allies and puts you in a rigid box you can’t come back out of either.
Saw a post by a trans woman horrified by the concept of having overlapping experience with femboys because “fuck you I am a woman.” You are. A woman with a lot of overlapping experience with a GNC man. You’re not a GNC man. He’s not a woman. And the gap between you two is not a chasm.
“How dare you say trans men are similar to butch lesbians. Trans men are men.” Yeah, men with similar experiences to butch lesbians. The butch lesbian isn’t a man. You aren’t a woman. And the gap between you is not a chasm.
This mindset doesn’t even account for GNC men who also ID as women, trans men who use the label of lesbian. Butch can be a label for a person of either AGAB.
Binary trans people wanna separate themselves from each other and from nonbinary people sooo bad. Now it makes eggs feel like the jump from GNC woman to man is an insurmountable journey. A femboy gets told he’s making a mockery of trans women’s experiences. A transmasc femboy is seen as just a faker. A butch trans lesbian is seen as a faker.
These labels are all just plots on the map, not one side or the other. You journey to the farthest edges and you find twinks and lesbians who look and act identical despite being supposed opposites. It’s all made up, we’re all queer.
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