Tag: just bitching

From a philosopher’s blog essay about #MeToo (which I’m considering for inclusion on my course syllabus):

The prospect of a glorious future where, on pain of social death, we have to make our cultural enthusiasms match up with our morals (by which I mean, what Twitter tells us to feel) fills me with horror. Next thing you know, we’ll all be reading Rupi Kaur poems to each other and listening to Joanna Newsom whilst eating vegan food and knitting. I dunno about you, but that’s my idea of Guantanamo, right there. (For that reason, I completely relish this interview with radical feminist Julie Bindel about her love of Snoop Dogg).

Replace “what Twitter tells us to feel” with “what Tumblr tells us to feel” and you’ve got how I’ve been feeling lately (well, except that I kind of like Joanna Newsom).

philosopherking1887:

My sister’s husband is driving me nuts. He always has to be Doing Something NOW RIGHT NOW. He can’t stand just sitting around chatting or lingering over a meal. If other people are doing something too slowly, he wanders off; we temporarily lost him at a farmer’s market yesterday. I have no idea how he survived a trip to France, where lingering over meals is just what people do.

…and then my mom got a call from a friend’s sister telling her that her friend had a stroke, and he’s acting all impatient and resentful that we’re not going out yet. He’s obsessed with the form of politeness but doesn’t understand the matter: he makes a fetish of saying “please” and “thank you,” even among family and close friends (he complained to my mother about the fact that when I was visiting my sister I said “I assume there’s coffee” instead of “may I please have some coffee”), but he’s visibly impatient and even just wanders off when people aren’t eating fast enough for him, and apparently his need to be Doing Something is more important than a friend’s medical problem.

Not gonna reblog the post that inspired this thought, but… the Loki stans who claim that Thor’s behavior toward Loki early in “Thor 1” and before was abusive annoyed me a lot more before “Ragnarok” came out. People who fail to make a sharp distinction between Thor in T1, Avengers, TDW, AOU and Thor* in TR irritate me in either case; but frankly, I’m a lot less worried about the people who say Thor’s treatment of Loki was abusive than about the people who say that Thor*’s treatment of Loki (or Loki*) is love.

I just turned in an application I’d been procrastinating on (because I’ve been depressed as fuck) right under the wire – it was due at midnight EDT.

I feel like these days I’m just scraping through life by the skin of my teeth. Like, I manage to get things done, but not easily or with good time management or even particularly well.

The academic job market is a truck and it has run over my spirit.

Tfw you’re rereading the more recent chapters of a fic you haven’t updated in 7 months and thinking they kind of suck but you’re too lazy to fix them because you just want to finish the damn thing before Infinity War comes out.

How am I sick again/still? I thought I was getting better, but as of yesterday I have a fever again and the cough has gotten worse. My voice is so gravelly that I had trouble making myself understood while calling to schedule a doctor’s appointment. I’ve been nauseous from coughing up and then swallowing so much phlegm. (TMI, yeah, I know.)

You know, I think I do my “meta” discussion better as fanfiction. Have Loki and Thor talk out their issues themselves, or explain my “WTF happened to Loki?” hypothesis in narrative form. A major advantage of this is that it makes perfectly clear what my stance is on the characters and makes it much harder to accuse me of hating Thor or absolving Loki of flaws and guilt. A disadvantage, of course, is that it’s longer (doing justice to an issue sometimes requires that)… and people don’t like it when you respond to their arguments with “just read my fic, OK.”