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#2. If you want ‘submission to your husband’ there’s this thing called BDSM #It’s fun #You don’t have to do weird cult shit to justify your kink 

So that is a video of a woman like, literally piece-by-piece, word-for-word-ing, what her husband's trip to the grocery store for their household is going to be. And I saw another creator stitch this video talking about - I mean they had a really dope word for it and I can't remember it right now, but it's about performed incompetence, and how actually what this husband is doing is exaggerating their own incompetence and exaggerating their own incapability to force the labor that they don't want to do - this husband - onto their partner, right? That their wife will hopefully be like, "Oh my gosh it's just easier for me to do it myself, so I'm gonna do it myself. You're good."

And now they're absolved of the need to contribute to the household. So actually, that performance of incompetence is an investment that that husband is making for his future self. You feel me? It is like a patriarchal investment. And it's two-pronged, right? So you don't have to - One, you don't have to do the thing that you don't want to do, which is go to the grocery store, but two, you've set the expectations for your own capability so low that whatever you end up doing is incredible.

So, now I'm going to do my favorite thing which is to make it about race, and I'm actually going to say that in a parallel sense, like that is a patriarchal investment that the husband is making into his future self, but I think that actually, in the same way, mediocrity is a gift that whiteness gives to its own future. You know what I'm saying? That whiteness performing mediocrity sets the bar so low that the generations that will eventually inherit the legacies of whiteness can do anything and feel entitled to like, riches and fortune, right? And we also accept that performance of incompetence, and that performance of mediocrity, and then accept the bare minimum from whatever white person, or whatever beneficiary of whiteness comes along and does just more than we would expect from them.

And I think the - because of anti-blackness, it's the opposite for black people, right? Like, to escape the violence of whiteness you have to perform such excellence, and inherently the bar is constantly getting higher and higher, until you have all these superhuman black people who are just getting by.

Way back in the early days, it was where black performers in Vaudeville were legendary for it in Jazz and Jive routines. At about 1:37, this is where the Nicholas brothers go off.

This is Chloe Arnold and her group, The Syncopated Ladies. Go follow their IG! She is completely self taught and because of it has created her own unique style of tapping. She choreographed a killer routine to Formation and Doves Cry.

The history of tap dance is uniquely African American, much in the same way swing dance is. Slave owners took away the drums, so another way to keep the rhythm alive was found.

Nowadays tap has branch off into two styles: Broadway and street (or rhythm). Both pay homage to their roots in different ways.

My guess is that the zoo staff did use some positive reinforcement training to teach her how to pick up and pull on the rope at first, because that’s not necessary something a lion would just do on their own. While it’s also probable that she’s rewarded with something tasty did choosing to engage with the members of the public like this, Axelle wouldn’t be engaging if it was a negative experience for her (there aren’t enough snacks in the world to coerce a lion into doing something they find actively distressing). If she didn’t want to participate, she could just walk away.

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