I feel like I know what you're talking about but not at all how it would go, you mean like explicit statements of solidary against fascism by Black Metal / Neofolk acts to distinguish them from their most awful peers?
With you on that. I can enjoy media with unlikable characters (see Breaking Bad) but it has to have an interesting story. This was just "look at these wealthy bastards and their silly unrelatable problems that I don't care about"
Wow, Mike White sounds like a fucking dunce when he talks. Spent 90 seconds saying absolutely nothing, which is kind of ironic given how many times the words “you know” passed his lips.
Ugh. I'm glad I never had any desire to see it. But this is wrong: 'Andrew Sullivan, conservative blogger known for his promotion of the "Bell Jar" psuedoscience theory' - it's The Bell CURVE!! "The Bell Jar" is by Sylvia Plath and has nothing to do with any of that crap.
I don't understand the obsession with AGP when there are older, more cutting anti-trans theories that are just as debunked, or newer anti-trans theories that have yet to be debunked as hard.
Like, why the one by the pathetic weirdo chaser guy?
I think it's really just that it nearly perfectly maps onto a lot of people's biases about who/what trans women are. Even before Blanchard gave it a name, there were lots of descriptions of trans women that basically mapped it onto "ultragays" and "weird fetish freaks."
They deal with whatever traumas by leaning into the disgust and gaining the political benefit of weaponizing it in conservative circles where they operate as exceptional to the same limitations, being upper class, white gay men.
AGP seems to fit how Sullivan, transphobes, and I guess White choose to observe sexuality in humans (and themselves.)
Sullivan loves sexualizing black men while engaging in eugenicism, gets a charge from criticizing all gays for their "lifestyles" while engaging in poz bareback sessions
the mess of an overlap of taboo and excitement over internalized disgust towards sexual practice, and the moral panic/grandstanding over that disgust, in the public sphere, in areas where they know it is actively weaponized.
But it's so *exciting* for them to reduce humans to disposable genitals!
That really sucks. My initial read was that having the character with "AGP" being an explicitly cis man was meant to subvert the bigoted stereotype but apparently not.
Makes you wonder if Saxon's casual transphobia wasn't meant to be as off-putting a character trait as it seemed.
yes, someone mentioned it to me already, but thanks for sharing. I may add a note to my piece, even though it doesn't change my main argument about GC/TERFs constantly adding new referents to "AGP"
while it wouldn't surprise me if it was inspired by agp, he struggled to really say much. most of what was said was about buddhism with the implication that merging two opposites is a false unity. it also has strange implications about gay sexuality coming from a bi guy speaking to a gay man.
fetish seems to be portrayed as an inherently unwholesome desire, because it is beyond your ability to attain it. whereas for trans women, it is an attainable desire. so it wouldn't even be in conflict with the espoused philosophy. i just don't think it's a particularly deep examination of sexuality
Yeah that's where I am. It's hard to figure out why it's such a boring downer, lots of good performances but 'rich white people on luxury vacations can be stupid, hypocritical and mean' is hardly news to most of us
I half-caught an episode or two the other weekend — it was playing while I was in the room — and my only reaction was 'cool, a whole show of boring characters having boring conversations'. Not for me, clearly.
I just have to point out that it's not the "Bell Jar". That's Sylvia Plath and everyone should read it. It's the "Bell Curve" by Charles Murray that posits there's a link between intelligence and somebody's race.
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I do like Mike White, though, so this is very disappointing to hear. I love Enlightened so much
Like, why the one by the pathetic weirdo chaser guy?
auth-righties also prefer to play the hits
Sullivan loves sexualizing black men while engaging in eugenicism, gets a charge from criticizing all gays for their "lifestyles" while engaging in poz bareback sessions
But it's so *exciting* for them to reduce humans to disposable genitals!
Makes you wonder if Saxon's casual transphobia wasn't meant to be as off-putting a character trait as it seemed.
… that was bad and I apologize.
Yeah, that tracks.