terfs are a funny to me cuz they really think that trans women are just ‘pretending to be women’ so we can gain access to female spaces. like Bethany do you really think I’m risking being murdered in the streets so I can join your riot grrrrl face book group or watch you leave the girls bathroom without washing your hands.
this is probably my favourite comic of all time jsyk
can someone explain this to me?
Sure thing! For convenience I’ll refer to the guy with his arms in his pockets as SG (shorter guy) and the one on the computer as TG (taller guy).
In the first panel, SG sees TG playing on the computer and is disappointed. SG puts a lot of value in the idea of “making things,” specifically “art,” and thinks TG is just wasting their time
So he asks them if they wouldn’t rather be “making something” instead of just playing games and listening to music, implying that TG isn’t doing anything worthwhile or creative with their time
But TG replies that “interpreting is generative,” meaning that even if they spend their time just doing fun stuff, the mere act of enjoying something is creating an experience and an interpretation. Talking about something, dancing to music or sharing a piece of art with your friends IS “making something,” and each of those can be worthwhile and artistic.
SG leaves, complaining he “can’t be an auteur of [interpretation].” Auteur is a movie term that refers to a filmmaker with artistic control and vision enough to be considered essentially the singular creator of the resulting work of art. Turns out, SG doesn’t just want to “make things,” he wants to make things he and others see as “important.” He wants to make art not for the sake of art, but for the sake of being recognized and praised for his art.
This comic really speaks to elitism within the artistic community, the idea that art needs to meet certain standards to be considered art. SG’s viewpoint is really traditionalist, that art need to be “approved” and validated in order to be considered “really art;” while TG recognizes that art can be as little as just talking about what you love.
TLDR: Art is for everyone, not just some sort of social “artistic elite.”
ooh i love the explanation
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Protest Breaks out Against the Lack of Sanders Coverage Outside CNN Studio In Hollywood California, And Not One News Network Is Covering it
On Sunday, more than 1,000 protesters voiced their anger over CNN’s lack of Bernie Sanders coverage and the medias blatant bias towards Hilary Clinton, at the network’s Los Angeles headquarters.
And yet….not one Major or Local new station is covering it….
Protesters gathered together in a peaceful sit in, holding up bernie signs and chanting “Clinton News Network”. Since CNN’s first Democratic presidential debate program this election season, the network has put Clinton front and center and fawned over her performance, even when Sanders gained more followers.
This #BernieBlackout is no coincidence or accident. it could have something to do with the fact that Time Warner Cable owns CNN. Time Warner, of course, has donated over $400,000 to Hillary Clinton’s campaigns.
Despite his last six wins in a row, and the fact that Bernie’s managed to pack arenas with over 27 thousand people, Sanders has been largely ignored by the network. Ironically, CNN continued to run segments on an upcoming travel show even as the large mob chanted outside the building.
DON’T BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU SEE ON TV. REMEMBER: WE ARE HIS MEDIA
#StayWoke
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Scene redraw to visually show why this whole episode makes me uncomfortable.
Okay so I get this, but I also don’t. A horse with a cardboard unicorn horn vs a transwoman’s wig being taken off seems like a very distant comparison to me…
I read somewhere that they meant to have this horse wanting to be a unicorn represent a trans woman/gender issues to like teach the issue in an easy to understand way for kids apparently not realizing how ridiculous the way they went about it is. So when you think about the horse as a trans woman and the horn as a wig and buttercup taking the horn off in the way she did…/:
i see it as a comment on how feminization surgery isnt necessary in order to feel like a woman.
theres a difference between gender reassignment, and a softening of the jaw, implants, etc.
Well I, as a trans woman, see it as them telling us that we should accept what we were born as, as opposed to what we actually are.
I can respect that. As someone who is genderfluid, I sort of identify with it. I don’t have gender dysphoria because theres no definition as to what a man or a woman looks like, and it took me a while to come to terms with that. There’s dudes with boobs, and chicks with body hair, and that’s cool. The real man or woman is who I see in the mirror, and I don’t need anything to change that.
That’s fantastic that you’re comfortable enough with your body to not need any modifications but some of us don’t have that luxury which is why when this episode displayed procedures to change your body as some sort of mistake that we just rush into. That’s another reason why it makes me super uncomfortable. The whole episode sends so many wrong messages.
I can understand that, but overall the message seems to be “you are beautiful the way you are and do not require plastic surgery”.
Which is a backwards ass message when discussing trans issue.
This reminds me of that one post that complains that black is associated with dirt or wrong things and it claims this is racist. Human brains are hard-wired to associate BLACK with poison, rot, and unsanitary conditions. It has nothing to do with race. When applying the message to one issue, it can be considered racist. When applying it to another, it makes a lot more sense. I feel like you’re acting as though I’ve attacked you, when I’m just pointing out that it could mean something else.
Except the writers actually confirmed that donny was supposed to represent the trans community.
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/herocomplex/la-et-hc-powerpuff-girls-20160401-story.html
In addition to shattering old tropes and kick-punching dated ideas, the new “Powerpuff Girls” will also address issues of gender and identity. One upcoming episode in particular touches on ideas of gender identity – a topic open to conversation even in animated shows, thanks to programs such as “Steven Universe,” which explores gender fluidity and rejects established gender norms.
“We did an episode where there’s a unicorn. Basically when it starts out, he’s a pony, but he wants to be a unicorn,” Jennings explained. “He has to go through a transformation to become a unicorn and so it’s a whole [episode that asks], ‘What are you on the inside? What are you on the outside? How do you identify yourself? How do people see you?’ There’s a lot of subtext in that.”
