juno

unless you want to teach small kids about a laundry list of sex acts, they're not going to even recognise many acts of CSA as sexual in nature. instead, we need to have children who are raised with an expectation of bodily autonomy and who feel comfortable complaining when they're made or asked to do things they don't feel comfortable with. we need children to have the expectation that those complaints will be taken seriously and that they'll receive backup to make sure situations like that don't continue. if their desires for bodily autonomy are consistently ignored, how can we expect them to speak out when something confusing and uncomfortable happens with their parent, cousin, or babysitter? we've already taught them that what they feel comfortable with doesn't matter

so like. okay so like you have this online ecosystem where everyone's all fractured and algorithmically siloed into their little groups, right?? and the only contact they have with outsiders is through screenshots, meaning you're only ever seeing the stuff that's objectionable or funny enough to be screenshotted in the first place. and the people who rise to the rank of screenshot curator are the people who spend all day sniffing around the other camps for stuff to screenshot. so you have this epistemological chokepoint dictated by someone whose main hobby is sneaking around with a camera getting all up in someone else's business and making it into a public spectacle. and the easiest way to make it into a public spectacle is to make your audience scared and angry. and the easiest way to do that is to play on existing negative biases, like pushing an open door yknow?? so you have this dynamic that rewards prejudice and elevates it to a position of narrative authority. and the people who can do this the most effectively and consistently are the ones who have no qualms about stalking marginalised people and crafting narratives about how they're scary and evil. and you reeeaaally gotta question whether or not any of this is actually beneficial to anyone or if it's just doing to you what fox news did to your dad, yknow??

some of you have GOT to get comfortable with lying and situational morality and i'm not kidding

food motivated 🍰🐀

i'm trying to write a piece (video essay?) where i rank all the star wars movies in depth but from the viewpoint that star wars is and always has been fun trashy pop shit that doesn't demand any more serious critical attention than like something like glee and that this is a liberating thing to admit about any media property because it allows you to love your inner child in a way that is equally respectful of all parties involved, and the climactic joke will be ranking season one of glee as the second best star wars movie. however i am uninspired to write well, the right words just aren't coming in the right order, and i desperately need to get and maintain some semblance of a Life for at least a month or two before i can confidently and responsibly be telling anyone how to think about even the smallest of things i think. so i'm gonna get ready for bed.

jacob collier’s wired videos are such terrible pieces of music communication. he can’t give a single normal answer to any question and all of the comments are people not understanding anything and thinking it’s their fault for being stupid. i feel like there’s a pressure to qualify every jacob collier roast with something to the effect of “he’s obviously been a net positive influence on the development of music as an art form” and i just don’t think that’s true sorry, i think he’s been a disaster!

he alternates rapidly between expounding on the most basic of basics (condescending) and diving into esoteric topics and frameworks (confusing) which makes it seem like he’s generally just trying to make himself seem better than the person he’s talking to, but it’s a little less pernicious than that. he really is that excited by both the fundamentals and the esoterica, and telling other people about them is his way of continually vicariously experience the feeling of learning about them for the first time again. unethical in a deontological kantian way in that his “students” are being treated as a means to an end, but more consequentially he leaves out the unsexy 80% of study joining the fundamentals to the esoterica because that’s not nearly as fun for him to relive.

in response to "i'm trying to understand the concept of a polyrhythm. is this an example? [link]" he gives an overly simplistic answer of "it just means multiple rhythms at once" (which the asker certainly already knew) and then ignores the example provided in favor of busting out an aurally unparseable 6:5:4:3:2 finger tapping party trick. and then the comments are like "i don't think the non-musicians in the audience realize just how impressive that was" and it's like, okay sure but he didn't answer the fucking question!! he made the asker as well as the general audience feel stupider rather than smarter, which is the exact opposite of what he's supposed to be doing!!