For the sake of having everything in one place. This post will be edited as I continue to upload.
Monogatari Series
Fate/Stay Night
i think sometimes people see a story thats hammy or overacted or dramatic or just generally kind of over-the-top, and somehow fail to process this as an intentional effect and instead just go like ‘haha this show is so silly’ which leads to the most backhanded praise of all time
'oh the plot is such a mess, but it’s an enthralling mess’, 'im just enjoying the trainwreck’, etc.
like you’re very straightforwardly just enjoying the thing for the reasons that you’re supposed to enjoy it but then act like you’ve somehow got one over it in your head because the way its presented doesn’t read as high art so you have to try and appreciate it from an ironic distance
this is kind of the main takeaway most people seem to have from the book and i do find it pretty reasonable
Softblocking is pretty much strictly worse than blocking for real I feel like
Although blocking itself is just an inferior form of cutting your enemy down in single combat of course
Softblocking is pretty much strictly worse than blocking for real I feel like
I have to say she is not cooking with a lot of this
Very funny to me that her knock-down argument against social constructivism is basically “if gender is constructed so well why isn’t everyone cis?”
Weird line of argument from Serano here I think.
Like I appreciate that trans narratives are often exploited by scholars but that doesn’t mean they offer no particular use at all to exploring the theory of gender.
I also simply do not see how ‘picking apart’ the gender identity of a cis person would be interpreted as offensive or equivalent to misgendering on any level. No doubt some people would get angry at the idea that mens’ hobbies and relationships are affected by gendered socialisation but it seems a fairly tame point on the whole.
This isnt rendering their gender identities 'suspect’ it is merely trying to explain them, unless you think any theory of gender that doesn’t hold some form of naturalism would be somehow invalidating.
Maybe I just don’t understand Serano’s concept of 'degendering’ that well because I feel like 'erasure’ or 'exploitation’ would have been more useful for this chapter.
There’s actually more I could add to that post but I think it’s a bit much for something public lol
something v funny about how fetishes/sexual content also vary greatly with the culture of internet spaces
never heard of clicker training before recently
adding a slightly hotter take but people who recoil from lolicon while constantly posting about 'age regression' are really funny
our blessed mommy incest (the mother has a dick so its woke) vs their barbarous little sister incest (the little sister is an anime girl so its bad)
thinking about it more its also partially a visual vs text based thing cause like obviously if you’re not used to it lolicon art is going to feel confronting in a way that blurs the lines between fantasy and reality but when i read all these degradation textposts that are written completely in character about how you should call [minority group] slurs because they’re sluts that only deserve [redacted] i do get a very similar feeling
something v funny about how fetishes/sexual content also vary greatly with the culture of internet spaces
never heard of clicker training before recently
adding a slightly hotter take but people who recoil from lolicon while constantly posting about 'age regression' are really funny
our blessed mommy incest (the mother has a dick so its woke) vs their barbarous little sister incest (the little sister is an anime girl so its bad)