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I don't know recently counts as 'new', I've been hearing 'queer-coded' for over a decade I'm pretty sure?
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Well, more so than "the 40s" anyway
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May 7, 2021 23:14
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YggiDee posted:I don't know recently counts as 'new', I've been hearing 'queer-coded' for over a decade I'm pretty sure? There's Scar and Ursula from disney films, I'm pretty sure the term "queer coded" dates back to the 90s at least.
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Coded can also be, like... Garnet from Steven Universe has physical features associated with Blackness but is actually two space rocks hugging very tightly. She's coded as Black but there are also, you know, actual Black human characters. And I think that's fine bc if the nonhuman characters in question are humanoid enough, some variety is good. It's not like Caucasian features are 'default'. It's just something that can be done very badly and stereotypically by racist writers.
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PetraCore posted:is actually two space rocks hugging very tightly.
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christmas boots posted:Alright, I'm game. Tell me about aspect ratios. Apart from early films when there were no real "industry standards", widescreen aspect ratios exist today largely because Hollywood was scared of competition from television so had to search for new gimmicks.
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May 8, 2021 00:20
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My rental office just posted a thingparasite posted:Happy Work Anniversary to (person with same name as company)! He has been a great addition to our corporate staff as the Project Manager of New Development & Acquisitions. Three years has just flown by. We look forward to seeing all that he does for our company in the years to come!
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May 8, 2021 00:27
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Cloacamazing! posted:Yeah, they "discovered" that. I had a job interview where they told me about their awesome "trust working time" concept where you didn't have to check in or out and you could just work any time you wanted, as long as the work got done obviously, and my first thought was "So that means nobody ever gets compensated for working overtime and God help you if you try to leave on time?". Are you saying supergiant games really made pto mandatory to discourage people from using it? How is that supposed to work?
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Midnight Voyager posted:https://twitter.com/BWRBooks/status/1390666149529100291 Two Beans posted:
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Fatty Crabcakes posted:Just rock gals being rock pals
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May 8, 2021 00:55
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Blackula Vs. Tarantula posted:Are you saying supergiant games really made pto mandatory to discourage people from using it? How is that supposed to work? I think they interviewed before it was mandatory
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May 8, 2021 01:03
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Len posted:My rental office just posted a thing That sounds like a plot from South Side.
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Len posted:My rental office just posted a thing Talk about nominative determinism. What a crazy coincidence that someone ended up working for a company that goes by the same name as them.
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https://twitter.com/AZKellyT/status/1390386508004089857?s=19
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Arizona, well known for being a hotbed of Communist activity…
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Where's her checkmark
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Len posted:Where's her checkmark She's a state senator, not a national player.
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Vib Rib posted:You can tell from the way they were buried they must have been very good friends, or possibly cousins It's particularly funny to apply that descriptor to that fusion in particular because it fits Stevonnie a lot better - Garnet is the most explicitly horny pair of characters in the show whenever they are apart. The body language is super clear. Fusions certainly aren't direct analogs to sex because that would be weird, they are metaphors for relationships of all kinds from familial love to toxic friendships, but Garnet is the one pair of characters that can be described as "Oh, they FUCKIN'!"
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BioEnchanted posted:It's particularly funny to apply that descriptor to that fusion in particular because it fits Stevonnie a lot better - Garnet is the most explicitly horny pair of characters in the show whenever they are apart. The body language is super clear. Fusions certainly aren't direct analogs to sex because that would be weird, they are metaphors for relationships of all kinds from familial love to toxic friendships, but Garnet is the one pair of characters that can be described as "Oh, they FUCKIN'!" The joke is that a lot of archaeology and historian work looks at people who are super obviously a couple and decides that they are Just Friends because homosexuality can't exist. If you have two women buried together in the same manner as a culture buries spouses, they will say "They were very good friends!"
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Midnight Voyager posted:The joke is that a lot of archaeology and historian work looks at people who are super obviously a couple and decides that they are Just Friends because homosexuality can't exist. If you have two women buried together in the same manner as a culture buries spouses, they will say "They were very good friends!" Like how "objects of ritual significance" either means they don't know what it is or dildos
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duffmensch posted:Arizona, well known for being a hotbed of Communist activity… The signs were all there. 
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christmas boots posted:Like how "objects of ritual significance" either means they don't know what it is or dildos Almost anything can be a dildo, if you have courage in your heart, and an adventurous spirit.
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I am fully aware of the historical erasure, like that one pharaoh who's name I can't recall (begins with B) who is credited with inventing the whoopie cushion, but what a lot of historians deliberately ignore is that she lived as a woman. She was a transgender Pharaoh. It was mostly allowed until she hit 18 and made a move that went further than her high priests were willing to allow by marrying one of her male slaves. At that point she was executed.
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Elviscat posted:Almost anything can be a dildo, if you have courage in your heart, and an adventurous spirit. Mesopotamian girls make do
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BioEnchanted posted:I am fully aware of the historical erasure, like that one pharaoh who's name I can't recall (begins with B) who is credited with inventing the whoopie cushion, but what a lot of historians deliberately ignore is that she lived as a woman. She was a transgender Pharaoh. It was mostly allowed until she hit 18 and made a move that went further than her high priests were willing to allow by marrying one of her male slaves. At that point she was executed. Woah, I wish to know more
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Platystemon posted:The signs were all there. well, I'm no expert, but that would put them in Idaho right? I mean a kilometrer is 1000 miles right? or am i a product of American education?
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cult_hero posted:well, I'm no expert, but that would put them in Idaho right? I mean a kilometrer is 1000 miles right? or am i a product of American education? lol a km is around 2/3 of a mile my dude
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BioEnchanted posted:It's particularly funny to apply that descriptor to that fusion in particular because it fits Stevonnie a lot better - Garnet is the most explicitly horny pair of characters in the show whenever they are apart. The body language is super clear. Fusions certainly aren't direct analogs to sex because that would be weird, they are metaphors for relationships of all kinds from familial love to toxic friendships, but Garnet is the one pair of characters that can be described as "Oh, they FUCKIN'!" Though to be honest I’d rather not think about the fusion/sex analogy in any capacity because all it’ll do is remind me of Riley-from-the-Arkh-Project’s awful medium post about “the time Pearl used Garnet as a sexual comfort toy”.
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Kenning posted:lol a km is around 2/3 of a mile my dude I really hope OP is doing the performative « lol merica dum rite » thing
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kirbysuperstar posted:Woah, I wish to know more I was wrong about which culture it was, it was a Roman Emperor, not an Egyptian pharaoh. Her name was Elagabalus. She came to the throne when she was 14.
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Kenning posted:lol a km is around 2/3 of a mile my dude You've been Ken M'd.
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Kenning posted:lol a km is around 2/3 of a mile my dude Let’s also not ignore that Idaho is nowhere near six thousand miles from the Mexican or Canadian borders. Six thousand miles would get you to Turkey.
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BioEnchanted posted:I was wrong about which culture it was, it was a Roman Emperor, not an Egyptian pharaoh. Her name was Elagabalus. She came to the throne when she was 14. She literally offered half the Empire to any surgeon willing to give her a vagina and historians will still say with a straight face that she was cis. She also used the imperial palace as a brothel to sell her body, held massive religious festivals where the plebeians were able to eat a poo poo ton of food, and let women into the Senate. Of course, this meant that she very quickly got couped by the Prateorian Guard and assassinated at the age of 18.
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TinTower posted:She literally offered half the Empire to any surgeon willing to give her a vagina and historians will still say with a straight face that she was cis. To be fair, this history was also written by their detractors, and Roman society was incredibly misogynistic and had very little in the way of libel laws, so...
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Blackula Vs. Tarantula posted:Are you saying supergiant games really made pto mandatory to discourage people from using it? How is that supposed to work? They had unlimited vacation like a million san francisco startups and tech companies, but found that almost no one took any time off at all. Now they require people to take (at least) 20 days a year off. They also have said they have rules about no emails/work talk after 5pm on Friday and generally seems to be a p OK place to work--or at least I would like to have either of those things in any job lol given a lot of their founders were like former games journalists/etc I'm willing to believe they thought unlimited PTO was good a decade ago but realized it's bad and changed it.
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BioEnchanted posted:I was wrong about which culture it was, it was a Roman Emperor, not an Egyptian pharaoh. Her name was Elagabalus. She came to the throne when she was 14. TinTower posted:She literally offered half the Empire to any surgeon willing to give her a vagina and historians will still say with a straight face that she was cis. Thank you both!
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I would be wary about taking this said about Emperors at face value. Historians of the time weren’t afraid to say whatever salacious rumor as 100% true if they didn’t like the emperor. And no one like el. As they saw him as an effeminate easterner
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christmas boots posted:Like how "objects of ritual significance" either means they don't know what it is or dildos I've been in the opposite situation, reading an article that describes the discovery of an ancient dildo I was a bit dubious about how they knew it was a dildo until I got to a photo of the object and yeah it was obviously and undeniably a dildo. Samovar posted:To be fair, this history was also written by their detractors, and Roman society was incredibly misogynistic and had very little in the way of libel laws, so... Yeah, this cannot be emphasized strongly enough. If we take our sources literally then Nero burned down Rome on a whim (he didn't), the Empress Theodora hosed animals as part of her stage act, and Tiberius retired to get blowjobs from infants. There's a reason historians are skeptical about Elgabalus being, well, anything like their detractors described them. Vincent Van Goatse has a new favorite as of 10:27 on May 8, 2021 |
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Also keep in mind that ideas of gender did not exist in the same way as we have them today. A common conception among ancient Mediterranean societies with Greek influences is that women were simply “incomplete” men. In essence, they were the same “gender” but men had “evolved” to the ultimate stage, whereas women were inferior and lacking. The idea of a man trying to become a woman in such a society would likely be outrageously scandalous, let alone for an emperor from the east, where people (according to Roman prejudices) already were more feminine than they should be. It’s possible that there’s a kernel of truth in the stories about Elagabalus, but to claim that modern historians are unwilling to commit to that due to some deep rooted transphobia in academia is not entirely fair. There are circumstances of culture and historical precedents that makes slander an equally (if not more so) likely answer. BigglesSWE has a new favorite as of 12:37 on May 8, 2021 |
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