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As much as I love that JK Rowling is being shredded for her transphobia, I'm begging y'all as a trans man to acknowledge that the fucking Hogwarts Legacy game is fucking antisemitism personified.

Jewish people are very often erased from this shit already, ACKNOWLEDGE that the entire game's premise is about it. Jesus fuck.

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Norskar under jul:

Tramper: oppå taket

Nissen: tillbake

Gaver: under grana

Tomtegløgg: i krana

Hotel: trivago

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the capitalists will sell us the rope with which to-- oh it's rope rental now? rope subscription service yes I see-- Uber for rope, yeah okay sure-- freemium with an ad-supported tier uh huh--

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The fact that someone thought I was using "unperson" as cutesy TikTok speak for "kill" instead of as a word that made its way into the English lexicon from George Orwell's 1984 is a little too on the nose I think

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I love these Word Cup moments

Translation: Gurl, you guys stopped 2 weeks to watch a coffin

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From Netflix's JWHJ 0715

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i love me mama and me papa! ohohooo! how i love to play harmless goofs and gaffs and tricks with my silly jokester family!

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So do the checkmarks have any benefit?

of course they do, they're public clown makeup. the largest dunce cap imaginable. a blinking neon target on your back with the bold words "kick me"

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male gaze is not 'when person look sexy' or 'when misogynist make film'

death of the author is not 'miku wrote this'

I don't think you have to read either essay to grasp the basic concepts

death of the author means that once a work is complete, what the author believes it to mean is irrelevant to critical analysis of what's in the text. it means when analysing the meaning of a text you prioritise reader interpretation above author intention, and that an interpretation can hold valid meaning even if it's utterly unintentional on the part of the person who created the thing. it doesn't mean 'i can ignore that the person who made this is a bigot' - it may in fact often mean 'this piece of art holds a lot of bigoted meanings that the author probably wasn't intentionally trying to convey but did anyway, and it's worth addressing that on its own terms regardless of whether the author recognises it's there.' it's important to understand because most artists are not consciously and vocally aware of all the possible meanings of their art, and because art is communal and interpretive. and because what somebody thinks they mean, what you think somebody means, and what a text is saying to you are three entirely different things and it's important to be able to tell the difference.

male gaze is a cinematographic theory on how films construct subjectivity (ie who you identify with and who you look at). it argues that film language assumes that the watcher is a (cis straight white hegemonically normative) man, and treats men as relatable subjects and women as unknowable objects - men as people with interior lives and women as things to be looked at or interacted with but not related to. this includes sexual objectification and voyeurism, but it doesn't mean 'finding a lady sexy' or 'looking with a sexual lens', it means the ways in which visual languages strip women of interiority and encourage us to understand only men as relatable people. it's important to understand this because not all related gaze theories are sexual in nature and if you can't get a grip on male gaze beyond 'sexual imagery', you're really going to struggle with concepts of white or abled or cis subjectivities.