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"Racialised" is much better than PoC but I've been leaning a lot on the concept of racial markedness. Because that allows us to make statements like "the name Jamal is racially marked in USA". Rather than saying something like "Jamal is a PoC name", a nonsense statement, saying it's racially marked in USA allows us to contrast with societies like Albania or the Arab countries where the name Jamal is ordinary, thus unmarked.

It's a concept I've kind of imported from linguistic analysis; saying a speech pattern is more or less marked does not really allow us to avoid the subject of who's doing the marking. A statement like "womens' speech is more marked in Lakota" necessitates that we understand that it's the Lakota who are marking womens' speech. A foreigner can't tell the difference and probably doesn't understand why it would thus be weird to see a man using speech patterns associated with women, in the same way an Albanian wouldn't understand why USA people would think Jamal is a Black name.

Didn’t Dio Brando used to own this?

just saw gideon the ninth called romantasy and grouped with fourth wing and acotar and lemme tell you i was not ready for that one

The trade off for this feeling like how combining toothpaste and orange juice tastes is that it will be really funny to see the the kind of psychic damage Tamsmuir can inflict on the average booktok reviewer.

what is the logic behind "trump won so i should buy a gun". like. i think its gotta be....increased rate of hate crimes? or you think theres gonna be all-out civil war? or...youre gonna do a waco? it seems like dream logic to me. like. theres no actual cause and effect thinking. having a gun = safer. im not even against guns, i have a gun, theyre fun toys! they can, in some situations, if you have enough training, be useful for self-defense, altho your odds of being in such a situation are slim. but like. you cant shoot abortion into being legal

There was a measurable spike in hate crimes last time he was elected so predicting the same thing will happen again seems reasonable.

That chair is clearly a mimic.

every fuckin’ thing in Paris is le petite this or la petite that just like the way everything in China can be 小 (at least when it’s not le grande / 大) and I’m thinking that English should make better use of smol

I think English uses age in roughly the same way these two languages use size. Lots of places called the old or new somesuch.

Given the machete-guy incident it seems like we’re already past 2.

even the top gets called a faggot

me explaining modern homophobia to aristotle

how about dog walker while in spiderman costume

you. you get it

Originally he had a top tier donor option where he’d come to your birthday party but then the sinister six crashed a spider-man bat mitzvah and he had to take it down.

Unironically though I think this probably does say as much about Ibbot's issues with masculinity as all the incredibly uncomfortable things with Helen do his issues with femininity.

the term “non binary” is completely redundant. Men and women can act and dress however they want without it needing to be some super special new identity

In fact, identifying as “non binary” only further enforces gender roles

For someone to identify as “out of the box”, there need to be boxes and other people to put in those boxes.

yeah that’s the whole problem with identity politics. it’s completely self-serving. you can just “identify” out of gender, washing your hands of it without making any effort to combat it, earn your super woke liberal points and call it a day. fuck those “cis” bitches, right? they must be fine with gender roles or they’d just ~identify~ out of them.

This is why I always found the whole “they/them” pronoun trend to be counter intuitive. Every time I encounter someone who dons such pronouns they typically justify it by saying that they do not identify with the gender role/qualities associated with he/she - which, understandable, most people don’t. But wouldn’t it be more productive to live actively in society as an example by proclaiming I am male/female, I go by he/she, and that doesn’t dictate anything regarding my personality, tastes or outward expression? By using they/them pronouns, aren’t you therefore indirectly insinuating that everyone else who does utilize he/she pronouns must identify with their associated gender roles/qualities? I don’t think a society in which everyone goes by “they” would be conducive to effective human communication.

my logic here is that superpowered healing factor does not work like normal healing at all, it can regrow whole bones and organs and extremities and it never leaves scars or keloid tissue of any kind. it seems the way it works is that it "magically" returns the body to a copy of a previous baseline without leaving lasting changes in the body, so the sam would go for muscles, right?

Yeah, that's always been my thought. Superheroes with that sort of regeneration could never build muscle because they heal in a way that's an antithesis of how muscle grows.

For Wolverine accelerated muscle development is explicitly how it works. Dude weighs like 300lbs at 5'3 of that a hundred pounds or so is metal and most of the rest is the kind of incredibly dense muscle that a 24 hour workout and no recovery time produces.

It seems possible even that some Americans may be familiar with the concepts of causality and linear time such that they could recognise that conditions in the present are influenced by events in the past. That is admittedly a reach though.

Unless she intends to live in France I can’t see how JKR would make much use of it. We’re talking about a law prosecuted by the state too so just using it as a financial beat stick wouldn’t really work either.

"Heavy social commentary regarding communism. Whether pro or anti is unclear"

“Subtly pro climate-activism” Subtle?

you heard it here first folks, fursuits are halal

Surely this depends on how much you perceive the fersona as an expression of self. If you see the fur suit self as truest self then wouldn’t you be if anything more exposed while wearing it?