Nonsense and the odd sensible thought

a golden age for what it

is in retrospect?

girlhood is sitting in the dark in the middle of the night crying to New Kids On The Block songs.

girlhood is sitting in the dark in the middle of the night crying to Duran Duran songs.

girlhood is sitting in the dark in the middle of the night crying to Queen songs.

girlhood is sitting in the dark in the middle of the night crying to Beatles songs.

girlhood is sitting in the dark in the middle of the night crying to Elvis Presley songs.

girlhood is sitting in the dark in the middle of the night crying to Frank Sinatra songs.

Transcript, music plays with no actual dialogue going on, chorus of the music is the phrase 'hard times'.

Guy holds palette too close to his side, accidentally squishes paint into shirt. Stares into camera.

Picks up the cap for a tube of paint. Stares at all the multiple tubes of paint, all with identical caps. Stares at camera.

Very carefully works on painting a precise black line. his arm trembles. The line comes out jagged. Stares at camera.

Takes a drink from a mason jar filled with ambiguous brown liquid. looks down. Sees his open soda can. The implication is he drank the water he washes the paintbrush in, which can have lots of toxins from what it takes to get paint the vivid colors. Stares at camera.

Dude passed out on the floor.

How fucking dare you.

When I say nothing excuses genocide, I mean nothing. I don't give a shit if homophobia is rampant there. Children and so many more are DYING. How can you not grasp that?

Homophobia exists everywhere, but it is not in everyone. Generalizing a whole population for the discrimination of a certain demographic is irresponsible and close minded. Those children that are crying for their dead mothers did not call us slurs. Those premature babies that by now have died because there's nothing to power their incubators didn't do shit to us. Even if they did? NOBODY deserves this.

And what of the victims of that discrimination? Our queer brothers and sisters who feared to love openly now no longer having the chance to love at all?

If you care so much about the state of the queer people in Palestine then why are you leaving them to die as well? Because that's not what you care about. Because that sympathy and solidarity only applies to those you deem human enough, right? The rest is abandoned.

how did i not know this

i somehow never even looked it up or anything was just like yep cool a movie.

In 1726, when William Brown was on trial for attempted sodomy in London, he didn't say "I was born this way", he said, "“I think there is no crime in making what use I please of my own body”.

In the 12th century, Hildegard of Bingen didn't say, "A woman can do anything a man can do!", she said, God created men and women with different humours and having too much of the male elements will throw society out of balance.

In the 1860s, Millicent Garrett Fawcett didn't say, "Women are just as smart as men", she said, Men get to vote no matter how dumb they are.