do you ever think about how in the 90s and 00s, collecting luxury shoes was seen as not only a Woman Thing but like, the height of Feminine Foolishness? at least in mainstream white american culture, it was a focus of misogyny that women buy a lot of nice shoes and men don’t, and men are smarter and more practical for it. anyway now luxury sneakers are a major part of popular masculinity, Fake Jordans is a meme, shoes are for men now. that happened in my lifetime. like it’s one thing to read about how the makers of gender are fluid and cultural, it’s another to experience it myself.
i think this illustrates just how much ideas of gender are shaped by the forces of consumerism
i have genuinely one of the weirdest skills to be able to brag about
i’ve caught five mice with my bare hands so far. like i’ve just frozen and pounced on them arms first like a cat. i dropped several of them immediately after my brain kicked in and realised i don’t enjoy being bitten by mice but twice now i’ve just caught and successfully dispatched them after a prolonged moment of losing my shit while holding a mouse. like i joke privately about my beloved pet cat and family member kremen (rip) raising me better than my parents ever did but dude what the fuck. i just go into Predator Mode and pounce on these fucking mice. what the hell
this makes it funnier that when i was a kid i used to do co-op mouse hunting with our current (now old) cat snowbell. like he’d corner a mouse and i’d corner it too and wait until he moved into a good spot and i’d chase it out and he’d catch it. you guys fucking wish you were on the same level of warrior cats roleplay i was on. there is nothing wrong with me
DON’T DO THIS TO ME
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This one is pissing me off because there’s cheese in it. I’m not sure there’s a period of Chinese dynastic history wherein the type of dudes likely to be having rap battles would also have been familiar with hard cheese. There’d be political fucking implications to that. Fermented dairy products were often seen as uncivilized foods, and were associated in particular with northern “barbarian” cuisine (see: <lactose intolerance in Eurasia>), whereas competitive poetry was viewed as a civilized and scholarly pastime appropriate to civil servants and courtiers. Mentioning cheese in a verse which also references the heavens could be seen as an effort to legitimize the presence of these dangerous foreign elements within Chinese society, and, thus, as seditious. If dairy were to become a common theme in rap battles, it might be viewed as a dangerous sign of poor morale and defeatist thinking among the literati. “Emperor, we have got to move the capital to the south. The scholars are rapping about cheese. It’s all falling apart.”
