#rant rant rant rant

"oh but those aren't that specific"

RAT-ataouille the movie about a French Rat making French Food specifically ratatoullie isn't SPECIFIC??? Kung Fu Panda where a panda learns kung fu isn't specific????? they could've named The Lion King "Pride's Fall" or "Roar" or whatever stupid snappy name but they didn't, they said exactly what the movie was about, lions being or becoming the king. It's How To Train Your Dragon, not "Skyforged" or "Dragon's Champion"

it's almost like not every movie has to cater to the widest possible audience. it's almost like telling ppl what they'll be watching can help them steer towards or away from movies while figuring out what they wanna watch

I fell into a hole of hell where a R*d W*ngs fan was still mad about that situation with Freddy and Ly*ns on Sunday, and he said, "I guess Bruins players love taking out the defenseless like opposing goalies and their wives." (referring to L*cic.)

And I swear to God this motherfucker either doesn't see the irony in his statement or he overlooks it because "there was no proof," with K*ne.

I wanted to tell him that the difference is that nobody has seen or heard from L*cic since fucking Halloween, and that unlike the R*d W*ngs, the Bruins aren't parading him out and proud that he's on our fucking team.

I'm still not over the comparison to FREDERIC in all of this either.

Perhaps this is controversial, but as someone from the ‘global south’, ‘third world country’, or like, lol, ‘where the ‘poc’s are’ sth along the line I am not eager to see my country, wider region or my culture be represented in English speaking media in the name of inclusivity or something by outsiders (not just the whites but the non-Indonesians in general yanno).

I much more prefer that people write about my country and research about it because they genuinely are interested in it. It comes more from the heart after all.

But representation? What does that even mean? In my honest opinion, no outsider will ever be able to truly represent us anyway. Only the Indonesians could, by the end of it. And in my opinion also? Not all Indonesians could anyway, because we are mostly too biased (and that includes me).*

Do you see it?

I don’t like this ‘representation’ stuff because in it lies the ego and arrogance of the self, thinking they’re able to do something that’s not even supposedly in their place to do so. The more conscious people are of doing things in the name of inclusivity, the more they become too much of tryhards, and it’s to me a secondhand embarrassment.

It’s different for people who are genuinely interested. They just simply like doing it. They don’t beat themselves too much if they’re wrong about stuff because, duh, you’re an outsider, of course you’re bound to be wrong at times. They just want to experience and mingle. And I highly respect that.

I have OCs of different countries, so I’m also trying to keep myself in check of any arrogance. Now I only see mine for the most part as ‘random citizens who just happen to carry the souls of their nations’. I don’t really beat myself over the facts that at times they probably don’t really represent the stereotypes of their own people or sth, because I WILL never get any of these stereotypes anyway (things that might not even exist in the first place?), and thus I don’t try doing what’s already impossible in the first place. Now my focus is building my OCs as individuals.

The 'mightier than thou' crowd : actually I will list down all the things that makes tianshan toxic, in this essay I will....

these same ppl also excuse all of their shitty actions with "I have X so it's not fair to hold me against these standards of basic human decency” and as much as they claim to hate the romantization of mental illness they are actually the worst ones, because instead of posting black and white gifs or whatever they constantly glorify their destructive way of life almost as if it’s a competition of who suffers the most. 

Almost all of the “human” expressions listed here are American idioms. It would be really difficult to understand most of them if you didn’t grow up speaking English in America. It makes me mad because I know lots of people, myself included, who struggle to understand certain English expressions because we never encountered them before. (For example, when I started college a few years ago, that was the first time I ever heard the phrase “knock on wood.” I didn’t understand whether it was a conditional or a demand? “It’ll go great, knock on wood!” I wondered, “does this person want some wood or something? What’s wood got to do with it?”) 

I bet OP would be very confused to meet some idioms from other “human” languages. How would they react if someone told them that their brother really “jumped out of his belly button” (קפץ מעל הפופיק) the other day? Or if I said my best friend “died” on that chocolate ice cream?(___מתה על). By now, I’m just “banging on a teapot.” (hocking a chinuk)

Who’s the alien now?

I know OP didn’t mean anything bad by their post, which is why I’m not going to reblog it and add this rant. That would be super unfair, and to place all this complaining after what thousands of people see as a funny joke could embarrass a lot of people, as well as make them all hate me. But the reason this post made it so far in the first place is American ethnocentrism.The idea that “If you don’t understand MY language, and MY culture, then you MUST be from outer space!!” Pretty much every minority in the United States has to deal with this garbage, which is why posts like this make my eyes roll back so far in my head. 

I know I have some followers who speak multiple languages, or are students of those languages, so I’ve got a question.