A Whole Bunch of Queer Nonsense

It's a vague memory now, it was a vague memory even at the time I made this post, but I think what sparked this was remembering stupid comments I saw about a Chinese-American cookbook that were complaining about it being written by a white woman and then I looked the white woman up and the briefest research showed she was adopted as a child into a Chinese-American family and just....

What discussing Cultural Appropriation was supposed to be about: why does Cheryl get to wear Dreads to work but Tyrone doesn’t?

"But others affirm that, having put off his imperial robe, the emperor ran into the midst of the main body of infantry; and that when the cavalry revolted and refused to engage, the infantry were surrounded by the Goths and completely destroyed in a body. Except for the emperor because he tucked his arms and legs into his stomach, curled up into a ball, and he just rolled away."

Which notorious English class short story fucked you up the most?

Okay I have things I should be seeing to but I couldn't help myself. In case you, like me, have not read all of these stories and would like to be amongst the lucky 10,000 today:

I still think about one random person I was messaging who got really defensive because I said I didn't think it was hugely likely that David Cronenberg was queer. Not out of the question because he's fairly private, more that he's over 80 and has been making feature films for 50 years, which is kind of like spending 50 years with the biggest concentration of nosy gossipers on the planet. I think there'd have been at least the hint of a whisper of a rumor or something. Like anything is possible but it mostly doesn't seem like his own life concerns his films, a few exceptions to the side. He's a person who makes very strange films who in all other ways expresses himself as otherwise conventional. It's a rare case but I would almost say Cronenberg being trans or queer would be less interesting, because that would almost immediately consume the interpretation of his work. A straight, cis man digging so deep into themes that are easily relatable to the queer and trans in ways that feel unfettered by social niceties, being personally disdainful of social and political proscriptions against sexuality and the body is to me fascinating because if he gets it, and hasn't got anything personal invested as far as sexuality and gender go, that means it's like. Anyone can get it.

My favorite category of government program to run across is "program you've never heard of doing extremely important work to solve a major problem which you have also never heard of." On that note, the US drops millions of pounds of sterile bugs over Panama each week in order to prevent a parasite infestation from moving into North America. Everyone say thank you to the Panama-United States Commission for the Eradication and Prevention of the Cattle Borer Worm (COPEG)

Maybe one year Demi can be the one jello wrestling with another women

Fallout protagonists: