hi, just popping in to say that the term bisexual umbrella is considered out of date and even offensive by a lot of us. some of us now prefer omni spec. thanks for the video!
I thought the "world without roads" thing meant "world without predetermined roles for people", like the roads being a confining box you have to fit in, like gender roles
Someone on tumblr pointed this out, but the X-Men actually work best in a shared with other superheroes who aren’t Mutants, other superheroes whose powers are just as dangerous as the Mutants’ yet who don’t face any of the discrimination that Mutants do. Because that makes racism directed at the X-Men and Mutants completely irrational, just like in real life. But even if we ignore this aspect of the universe that the X-Men inhabit, I think it’s worth bringing up that the measures the governments of earth cook up to oppress Mutants are oftentimes just as dangerous as, if not more dangerous than, the Mutants themselves. Forget getting hit by laser beams, I’d be more worried about a Sentinel stepping on me while carrying out a routine Mutant arrest.
You could do dinosaurs instead of dragons on the non-cis flags as a sort of nod towards jammidodger who’s ig “catchphrase” is “dinosaurs are cool, transphobia is not”
Back again to argue in the defense of the current genderfluid flag: its not mirrored across the center, but its opposite! The magenta in the center is a mix of the purple and the pink on the opposite sides, and the black and white are opposites on either side as well. The blue and the pink, representing feminine and masculine gender, are on absolute opposite sides, much like how feminine and masculine are considered to be far sides of a spectrum. Similarly, magenta represents a combination or in-between of feminine and masculine, which is why its in the middle color and placement wise, as you alluded to in the video. The black and white also lie between the far sides of the feminine-masculine color spectrum, but not in the middle, because they represent the absence or what lies outside the false dichotomy of masculine and feminine. In theory these colors could change position and carry the same meaning, but not without sacrificing the opposite color sides. The shades of the colors aren't great, but I personally really enjoy their placement and meaning! I am genderfluid, though, so I might be biased...
Forgot to mention: white and black also, in a manner of speaking, lie outside the color spectrum, just like the gender expression they represent... the genderfluid flag is not the prettiest, but a lot of thought clearly went into its design!
Cars are a means of transportation, a means of escape. They represent freedom. Five characters become cars; utena, wakaba, shiori, and kozue. Well OK, technically 6 if you consider the castle/school as Akio.
I’ve just recently finished Cherry magic, which is such an amazing anime! It is based around two 30 year old male Office workers ( one of which can read minds through touch) as far as I remember cherry magic falls into all the categories that needed to be on this list. The only thing is that there is another couple ( not the main couple) who have an age gap of about 7 years( both are adults and out of college) but that would be the only thing. I loved this anime and wish there were more episodes.
I’m pretty sure X-men is showing the way society wants to deal with mutants is wrong. Not that mutants can’t be dangerous. The REACTION to them by society is the metaphor.
i have a little comment to add about the genderfluid flag - while i do kind of agree that something about the colors is off, i honestly dont think reordering them works with the flag concept, the purple is supposed to symbolize a meeting of masculine and feminine, thats why its in the middle. honestly the order of the colors is probably more important to the design of the flag than the shades are, so it could be better to just switch the shades to be more cohesive with eachother
I like the observations, they seem pretty well thought. Since the series is essentially a coming of age story, I've always liked to think of the cars as symbolic for "Adulthood's promise of freedom and independence." The whole reason Akio seemed so cool and temptuous to most of the characters is because he's this cool adult with all the freedom teenagers envy and he uses that to manipulate them. When Utena transformed into a car, it was because she was Anthy's path to freedom and independence, genuine this time. Just as Utena became the Prince that End of the World pretended to be when he saved her from the coffin, she became a true symbol and messenger of freedom to Anthy.
Do you have a png of the final gender-fluid one? I love it so much more than the standard version! It’s visually appealing and the dragon speaks to me.
I was gonna watch but I haven't seen enough Doctor Who and I don't want spoilers. I'm still on the first doctor in the 60s. But I will say, supernatural just gets worse and worse as it goes and I feel like I could do a whole video essay on the decline of it. I don't want to deal with it so I'm looking for someone else who gets it.
"If you were a woman I'd kiss you/f*ck you" is such an old-fashioned bisexual mood. Like, if you don't know about the term bisexuality, it makes total sense to put it that way to yourself.
I like seeing that a Western mindset is trying to rationally decode an eastern imgaination and fails! It is not working like that. To people of the east including middle east the whole world is connteted. everything is related to everything in a complex manner: a passing breez may be sing of a the birth of a hero for example. to decode eastern's imagination you should see the whole not details.
His murder was sanctioned by the Queen. There can be little doubt about this. It's deeply sad how such an illustrious, intelligent, educated, outspoken and conflicted poet would die such a violent and early death. He was ahead of his time 😢 F
I hope not, as Greene was one of the most vocal and shameless critics of his peers and doesn't seem like he was a very pleasant person at all. He played his part in the downfall and undoing of Marlowe. I hate the idea that his face would now be generally known as the face of Kit Marlowe... no I don't buy into this at all, not without credible proof, which we will never have (either way).
I looked into this, and it's 100% not a portrait of Robert Greene. Don't know who told you it was even a possibility. The portrait was discovered in 1953 at Corpus Christi University in Canterbury, which Marlowe had attended. Marlowe was a student there from 1580-87. The painting carries an inscription which suggests the sitter is 21, and that the year was 1585. Marlowe was born 1564. Greene was born 1558. Case closed.
If Rian Johnsson were have left Kylo to be a villain, so Kylo Ren would be "decent" but because Rian Johnsson didn't follow the previous movie everything feels so lazzy written and improvise around his character, even his "romance" with Rey felt so out of character from her part, why Rey started to feel sorry for Kylo Ren? When their first interaction of both it was him trying to kidnapped her and almost killed one of her friends, for not mention the way Kylo killed Han Solo in front of her. If Rey had met previous Kylo, well ,it had made sense that she wanted to save him. But here is the thing, Rey doesn't know Kylo, all she knew about him is the fact that he's the son of Leia and Han and he was one of the responsaible that Luke's academy fallen. Out of this, there's nothing.. I don't understand people who claims that Kylo Ren is the only "good character" in this trilogy when the character is contradictory, lazzy written along with a bad redemption.
The car thing could also be a metaphor taken literally. The reality bubble the characters are trapped in is created by the abusive relationship between Anthy and her brother. Utena literally becomes the Vehicle with which Anthy can escape this toxic relationship. You could also argue the car, at least when Utena and Anthy are concerned, is a metaphor for Adulthood. Anthy, before she is able to escape, is trapped by continous tracks that begin to grind Utena down and an apparition of her brother taunting her and telling her to go back. She decides to act like an adult and face the world head on, intending to shoulder the consequences of her decision of leaving the bubble, in which every decision was done for her without her input...before Utena arrived
Thanks to this video sitting in my queue you've made me realize that all the Queer flags are made of Straight lines and there's something odd about that 🤔
I think Dios is the super ego the conscience, that the Patriarchy and the system forced out of Akio. Notice most of those people with the swords are men. And Why did they have swords if all they were going to beg the prince to save their daughters? They were gonna kill Dios for not doing what they should have done. What they want to do. Reach out to their daughters and help them from their loneliness and pain. Not save but help. Again is saving has to be romantic then no saving but at with helping shows that you're there and care. But the patriarchy sees all emotions that aren't anger as bad so being compassionate doesn't work That's all Dios did. He showed Utena Anthy. Her suffering that he couldn't fix because he's going to be one of those swords that impale her. He reached out to Utena so she could reach. t the prince can't help a princess but only save. Leaving the princess dependent on the prince.
Traditionally, ace/Aro is know as “ace of spades” and ace/allo is known as “ace of hearts”. I propose we start calling alloaro “ace of clubs”, and allo allo “ace of diamonds” Then we can make flags with the card suits ! (Notice I left the least interesting symbol for the people who don’t need a flag)
I feel that the metaphor stands strong with X-men depending on your pov. Magneto being dangerous does not give you reason to fear all other mutants. It is bigotted to treat all mutants as a threat (same with any minority group). Systemic and cultural issues, such as marginalisation, are causes for mutants not getting appropriate support to learn to control their powers. Being an outcast leads some to turn to crime. And irl, just like mutants, there are marginalised people that do consider their differences a super power - an example being many people living on the spectrum.
Possibly. But as you say, he wouldn't know what that word meant. And the poems he wrote to the (possibly) gay young nobleman strike less as love poems than a lowly playwright courting the patronage of a rich aristocrat. The sonnets to the Dark Lady feel a whole lot more sincere. I think he'd have thought his sexual feelings, whatever they were, were normal, and he wouldn't have felt any need for a label. I think we, in our present time, are too addicted to labels. Heterosexual isn't the norm. It is, however, the way any species with two sexes reproduces itself. Some animals are 'gay', but they rarely reproduce successfully. There's a reason gay people used the (somewhat derogatory) term 'breeder' to refer to 'straights' (they also came up with that term). You don't have to be straight to have kids, but people who aren't heterosexual are less inclined to do so. It's not a perversion or an aberration to be unconventional in your sexuality. People who are different help renew a culture, a society. But they can't keep a population alive very long. Precisely because they are unconventional. There's a reason why all the different orientations combined are vastly outnumbered by people who are attracted to the opposite sex. By which I mean physical attraction. Emotional attraction can happen between any two people. So the LGBTQ+ people all owe their very existence to--drumroll--breeders. And Shakespeare was one. He got Anne Hathaway pregnant out of wedlock. She was older than him. That is not very typical behavior for a gay man. Anne was no beard. She was his first love. He had others. Possibly one or several of those were male. We have no evidence of that. Do we really think a young rich nobleman had sex with an elderly commoner? People can have very passionate platonic 'affairs'--marriage of true minds, anyone? Also, we tend to forget a large percentage of rich men in Ancient Greece and Rome had sex with boys. Without being the least bit gay. It was normal in certain classes then--also very exploitative. Today we call that 'grooming.' Truthfully, none of Shakespeare's characters are gay. They are simply what Elizabethans were used to seeing. Women played by young men in drag. Many of whom were probably entirely straight. We see what we want to see. Today, we'd like to see Shakespeare as gay or bi. See the whole man. And see that unconventionality has no sexual persuasion.
