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it is like. i am deliberately not posting that much about the nolan odyssey because i don't have much genuine interest and i find the whole like outrage theater people do at adaptations to be exhausting and unproductive and often misguided + i don't really care what celebrities are doing. but zendaya's 3000-year-old iranian earrings are like. such an on-the-nose fuck you. like 1. you can practically feel the stylist going "oh, it's old, it must be on-theme!" without really considering that ancient cultures are not interchangeable. but also 2. there's a very clear and important difference between ancient greece and ancient iran, in that there's a reason zendaya isn't wearing ancient greek artifacts on her ears--ancient greece has a cultural cachet that ancient iran does not, by virtue of its position as the perceived origin point of "western" (white) civilization. they are just interchangeable enough that zendaya can wear the artifacts of one civilization to a premiere of a work based on the mythos of another, but just different enough that she can get away with one but not the other.
and of course there's 3. which is that modifying and wearing a cultural artifact of dubious provenance taken from a country the us is actively bombing (and in doing so presumably destroying plenty of historic buildings/artifacts) asserts a certain lack of respect for and/or sense of ownership over that country's people and culture. and obviously this is what makes it seem like such a specifically heinous move.
Really important to note when it comes to (3) that the elite (and frankly Orientalising) appropriation of ancient Near Eastern artefacts as jewellery has a long colonial history. Cylinder seals are these little cork-shaped cylinders with pictoral or written designs engraved on them, and work the same way as a signet ring in that you could roll them over wet clay to leave an impression of the engraved relief on the clay to dry. They look like this:
(Cylinder seal of First Dynasty of Ur Queen Puabi, found in her tomb, dated circa 2600 BC, with modern impression. Inscription: 𒅤𒀜 𒎏 - Pu3-abi(AD) Nin - Queen Pu-abi. Nicked straight off Wikipedia as it's a fab comparison of seal / relief.)
In the British Museum you can find "Lady Layard's jewellery". Austin Henry Layard is a guy whose academic efforts I'm admittedly very indebted to. He was passionate about Venetian and Roman glass and did a great job re-popularising both styles in the UK, but more importantly he was the assyriologist who excavated Nineveh and the Library of Ashurbanipal—where we've found the majority of the Gilgamesh tablets. Pioneer figure in terms of Near Eastern archaeology... but check this out:
This is a necklace Layard had made for his wife. It uses real cylinder seals.
To quote the British Museum's entry on the item: One cylinder seal is Akkadian (about 2200 BC) and four belong to the second millennium BC, but eight are late Assyrian (about 1000-612 BC). Late Babylonian and Achaemenid stamp seals (about 600-350 BC) are used for the pendants and clasp.
Enid later wrote in her diary that, when they dined with Queen Victoria in 1873, it was 'much admired'.
Ancient Near Eastern artefacts, repurposed as jewellery in a set that doesn't give a single fuck about accurately dating them, let alone treating them with the sort of respect you might perhaps expect of items over four thousand years old. Instead they've become a mark of elite colonial status, an Oriental curiosity utterly separated from their historical context. They're 'old'. They're non-descriptly 'other'. Time and place dissolve into an attractive and vague exoticism.
All while the place these seals have been appropriated from is busy being exploited by the very empire this "jewellery" is being shown off to!
So to bring it back to your third point: you're absolutely right!!! And this has precedence dating right back to the start of Western study (and plundering) of the Ancient Near East. It's a carelessness, it's an ignorance of historical context, and it's explicitly colonial.
thank you for the added context!
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this may sound crazy but i care more about people not getting carpet bombed and airstriked and gassed and shot and murdered en masse by imperial armed forces than like their thoughts on gay people. i know!! sorry homonationalists!! i care more about the lives of iranians than like their hypothetical apparently monolothic views on queer people!! as a lesbian!! if it makes you see them as human beings there are also gay and trans global southerners? in palestine and libya and somalia and the dprk and russia and iran and iraq and lebanon there are gay people. but most importantly there are people. like if a palestinian is homophobic we can talk about that when they're not being targeted in a genocide. it's also impossible to separate the homophobia of people from these countries from western propaganda and imperialism. yes many russians, kazakhs & eastern europeans are going to be averse to expressions of gay sexuality after the coercion & trafficking of men into gay porn post fall of the ussr. of course many iraqis are going to view homosexuality as depraved if their first encounter with it was images from abu ghraib showing prisoners being sodomised, raped, and forced into humiliating sexual situations with other prisoners. of course libyans watching their people being sold into sexual slavery are going to be distrustful of homosexuality. of course men raped by american soldiers and their loved ones are going to be distrustful. of course someone living under a government that is anti-lgbtq rights is going to have to reckon with that. as a lesbian as a very proud lesbian i literally value people of colour's lives more than a white westerners feelings over "but they're probably homophobic 🥺" like you wouldn't even be the one suffering from that homophobia. that would be the queer people also being blown up because they also live there.
This started and ended in a good place but I promise OP did not have to say “these people are homophobic for understandable, anti-imperialist reasons, actually!”
it's so funny how i didn't say that and you just put words in my mouth lmao. i didn't say i understood homophobia or think homophobia is anti-imperialist, or that these people being homophobic is necessarily anti imperialist. when palestinians watch idf soldiers raise the pride flag over the ruins of their homes how do you think that as a symbol speaks to them? when western media portrays being gay as antithetical to loving russia and shows queer characters as hating / not wanting to be in russia and always existing in america and expressing a hatred for russia (eg. heated rivalry) and refuses to show gay russians who do not reject and despise russia, do you think russians are maybe going to see queerness as against russian values or as a western deviance ? do you think maybe when the country that has placed the largest sanctions in the world on russia does this there will be a little friction ? i remember a couple years ago the outrage when trans soldiers were banned from the us military. do you think people who had never encountered a trans person, possibly never even heard of one, would feel super warm and fuzzy watching people fight for trans peoples' rights to murder their children? these countries are not given the chance to reckon with their laws, vote in socially progressive politicians, or dismantle systemic homophobia because they are being MURDERED. i really don't know what part of my post you agreed with if you can't understand how the impcore completely owns and dominates "queer culture", how "queer spaces" are full to the brim with westerners, how pinkwashing causes homophobia which is then villainised for more pinkwashing. when homophobia is used by imperial forces (however flimsy a cover this is for the real genocidal & imperial intent) as a reason to murder you, destroy your infrastructure, pillage your country, yes they are going to cling to this and internalise it as right. when the invading forces claim they must kill you for your beliefs, what before might have been a mild aversion / bigotry will integrate into your belief system because you are victimised "for" that belief. you see this as proof you were correct. i'm a lesbian !! i am a lesbian !! i do not have to understand homophobia to understand peoples' reasons. i have my priorities and i prioritise ending us imperialism over gay rights, not because i disregard gay rights but because imperialism will forever be the enemy of all progress and humanity. you can even see in 20th century cuba when it had extreme and horrible laws criminalising homosexuality (along with the rest of the world) and in the 90s, by themselves scaled back these laws, legalised homosexuality, and is now a progressive nation on gay rights. when imperialism goes, slowly the western propaganda will lose its hold. the countries must find it in themselves, not be colonised to become "progressive" havens built on the corpses of global southerners. maybe reread the post and see if you actually agreed with me or just liked the way it sounded
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this may sound crazy but i care more about people not getting carpet bombed and airstriked and gassed and shot and murdered en masse by imperial armed forces than like their thoughts on gay people. i know!! sorry homonationalists!! i care more about the lives of iranians than like their hypothetical apparently monolothic views on queer people!! as a lesbian!! if it makes you see them as human beings there are also gay and trans global southerners? in palestine and libya and somalia and the dprk and russia and iran and iraq and lebanon there are gay people. but most importantly there are people. like if a palestinian is homophobic we can talk about that when they're not being targeted in a genocide. it's also impossible to separate the homophobia of people from these countries from western propaganda and imperialism. yes many russians, kazakhs & eastern europeans are going to be averse to expressions of gay sexuality after the coercion & trafficking of men into gay porn post fall of the ussr. of course many iraqis are going to view homosexuality as depraved if their first encounter with it was images from abu ghraib showing prisoners being sodomised, raped, and forced into humiliating sexual situations with other prisoners. of course libyans watching their people being sold into sexual slavery are going to be distrustful of homosexuality. of course men raped by american soldiers and their loved ones are going to be distrustful. of course someone living under a government that is anti-lgbtq rights is going to have to reckon with that. as a lesbian as a very proud lesbian i literally value people of colour's lives more than a white westerners feelings over "but they're probably homophobic 🥺" like you wouldn't even be the one suffering from that homophobia. that would be the queer people also being blown up because they also live there.