Elaboration: the curtains were not fucking blue if the thing being analyzed is a work of fiction—they don’t exist. In fiction each detail was CHOSEN by the author. It’s not conspiratorial to assume intention went into those choices. If details are picked at random, that’s bad art
Go ahead. Post another “take.” Say catcher in the rye is a red flag novel. Come up with a woke way to admit you don’t understand unreliable narrators. Say Vladimir Nabokov is a pedophule. Claim your ex boyfriend forced you to read infinite jest.
It did the thing dfw criticized in the tv essay where it preempts criticisms of itself by deferring to the meta layer and lampshading it’s flaws before you can point them out
@crazy4glass
@AbbyJohnson
Nope, life ends at brain death. Otherwise everyone who’s suffered a heart attack would be dead. If the heart stops beating for a significant amount of time, the brain becomes deoxygenated, resulting in complete tissue death, but the person is not pronounced dead until then
The comments make me wanna puke you are literally reinforcing obsessive anxiety when you say shit like “if you weren’t racist you wouldn’t have racist intrusive thoughts” like do you know what an intrusive thought is???????
@shantilly_t
They can’t really control their unconscious perceptions though. The only thing they can control is what name/pronouns they use to refer to you. If they’re addressing you correctly, they aren’t really doing anything wrong unless you subscribe to the whole thought crime thing
@DreamLeaf5
She doesn’t even look 8 lol she looks 16 minimum. People are so used to seeing high schoolers played by 25 year olds that they’ve forgotten what real high schoolers look like
@snowbunnyy15
@aIeturner
The thing we call 2 plus the thing we call 2 equals the thing we call 4. The names are arbitrary but the concepts aren’t. If we called 4 “ten” then 2+2=10 would be a valid statement but it would still equal what we currently call 4, not what we currently call 10
90% of the academic arguments published in journals could be understood by an average high school sophomore if they did not use such deliberately overwrought vocabulary and needlessly complex syntax
Example, after Barbie says she’s not pretty: “note to producers. If you want this to work, don’t cast Margot Robbie.” But YOU cast Margot Robbie & thus attempted to get the best of both worlds through self-awareness by getting to have a hot lead despite it undermining the message
@isabeatty
I’m glad the popular discourse is coming back around to “citr is great” as opposed to “I don’t understand what an unreliable narrator is and that’s somehow the book’s fault”
Not to be uncool but I honestly don’t think that children should have social media like I don’t think we should legislate against it but if you’re a kid reading this I really recommend deleting for a few years bc it will fuck up your entire perception of the world
Okay, now onto the big stuff. As you probably know, Challengers majorly features a sport called “tennis.” Infinite Jest also features this sport. It’s likely that Guadagnino based the rules of his game on the one in Infinite Jest.
This is obviously directed at non-binary people who feel pressured to identify as binary men since they transitioned. It’s NOT telling actual binary men they should identify as non-binary like,, that’s pretty much the most uncharitable interpretation you can possibly make
Y’all will claim that gender is not biological sex or gender stereotypes but a secret third thing and then accidentally admit it’s gender stereotypes over and over again. It’s entertaining and exhausting to watch
I get that non-binary ppl don’t have to be androgynous to be valid but sometimes I feel like there isn’t enough representation for us androgynous nonbinaries with zero sense of style who don’t put a ton of effort into our appearances
At some point we crossed the line from “telling people to just get over mental illness is not helpful” into actively normalizing and even encouraging unhealthy behaviors
The worst part about transition regret is the constant "why."
Why was I allowed to do this to myself?
I'm told I was 'never really trans.' Then why was I allowed to transition?
Why was I allowed to cut off my healthy breasts? I didn't even pay for it, the NHS did.
Why?
@avillanappears
It’s recessive. The parents each had Mm (M being the dominant human gene, m being the recessive muppet gene). Those genes can combine as either MM, Mm, Mm, or mm. The first three will present as human (though two will be carriers of the muppet gene). The final one will be muppet
Lolita is a horror story about how a pedo absolutely destroys a girl’s childhood and completely changes her life trajectory, permanently traumatizing her, but bc it’s written from the perspective of the pedo and not the girl, YA-brained plebs assume he’s supposed to be the hero.
It’s literally the number one fear for people with ocd that our intrusive thoughts somehow represent us as people. I don’t personally get racist ones but for a while when I was younger and thought that cursing/blasphemy were the worst things ever I’d get ones about that
@Monster36402
@dasuperbackup
He was always a socialist. He made the list during the last year of his life while delusional and paranoid and literally dying. But twitter is allergic to context unfortunately
Just say you’re straight but gnc. That’s what I am. We need more proudly straight gnc people bc it’ll help decouple sexuality from style of dress. There are probably a lot of straight guys who want to wear dresses but don’t wanna get called slurs
In the second act of Challengers, a gang of wheelchair assassins shows up to the game. This is a reference to Infinite Jest’s AFR, the dangerous Quebecois terrorist group who lost their legs from jumping in front of trains.
People are so quick to be like “it’s not BECAUSE of their mental illness” when a mentally I’ll person does something awful but a lot of the time it quite literally is?? If your “mh awareness” leaves 0 room for the possibility of MI influencing thoughts/behaviors who’s it for?
@SomeStingray
My favorite part is “Ben Shapiro (early essays)”. Like he’s a band or something. “Yeah I’m a fan of Ben Shapiro but only the early period”
Like intrusive thoughts literally manifest as what you’re afraid of/what’s “taboo” for you. So for people who get racist ones they’re terrified of the prospect of being racist. And they probably aren’t racist but bc they’re scared of it, they’re constantly analyzing racism
It's funny when terfs use TRA as like a negative buzzword bc it literally means "trans rights activist" like...wanting people to have rights is a bad thing ???
@CopsHateMoe
Arielle: non-binary makes no sense. It’s too confusing and there’s no established definition
Non-binary people: ok well here’s what it means...
Arielle: