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Bucky from “Captain America: Civil War” poster :)

This, too, is a trashed bathroom; young queer people living through hell and having precious little control over their circumstances or the world in which they exist can affect something by using the language of social justice as a cudgel on their would-be allies, as well as getting a brief feeling of power over someone else by doing it.

One of my service learning classes involved work at a local homeless community center, helping people write resumes and cleaning bathrooms.

Our instructor told us to expect to see the bathrooms trashed a lot–like you will clean the bathroom and immediately someone will wreck it.

And it’s not because they disrespect your work or don’t value having access to clean bathrooms or whatever, but because of control.

When you feel like you have no control over your life or your environment, your brain is going to want to assert control however it can.

Which results in trashed bathrooms.  It’s control exercised over the one small part of your environment that you still have the power to affect.

I see kids on tumblr using the language of social justice as cudgels on people who actually do care about and listen to them

or holding the creators within their communities to an impossibly high standard that they never apply to mainstream media properties.

I just see trashed bathrooms. ‘These are the people my voice will reach,’ they rationalize, ‘so these are the people I’ll hurt.’

2026 Met Gala Outfits + Their Art Inspirations (4/4)

Luke Evans in Palomo Spain: Untitled by Tom of Finland

Yu-Chi Lyra Kuo in Jean Paul Gaultier: Winged Victory of Samothrace by unknown

Heidi Klum in Mike Marino: The Veiled Virgin by Giovanni Strazza

Audrey Nuna in Robert Wun: Number 1A, 1948 by Jackson Pollock

Rosé in Saint Laurent: The Birds by Georges Braque

Alexi Ashe Meyers in Celine: Anthropometries by Yves Klein

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