thinking about how the burning of the library of alexandria is remembered as the most prominent historical symbol of the destruction of knowledge…but that’s nothing compared to the thousands of entire languages killed in America and Australia by the colonialists…
To put an extremely fine point on this excellent paragraph: language is knowledge in non-literate cultures. This is why language reclamation is always at the top of the list for where to spend our limited resources in Native America.
“Thank you for your service” should be reserved for the bravest and hardest working members of our society. People like bus drivers, sanitation workers, or tops
‘gay tv is bad for the kids’ bitch every fucking straight ‘comedy’ show stars a lazy sexist husband that drinks beer and hates his wife id rather my kids watch queer eye where grown men are respectful and kind as all men fucking should be. yall homophobic assholes are so scared of your kids “turning gay” that you let them turn into fucking monsters that will eventually plague our society just like youre doing now
half of straight culture is hating your SO but gay culture is about loving and cherishing your SO and y’all still say it’s bad for kids? smh
Fuck off with your oh so heterophobic state of mind! Why don’t you crawl back into whatever liberal art college safe space you crawled out of!
Ok now what festering pile of unhappy dumbasses from the particularly entitled corner of reddit did you ooze out of
Actually I came from 4chan, don’t lump me with those 9yr Olds!
we dont even have to try and make fun of you lot anymore yall are parodies of yourselves
Has there ever been a production of Cyrano de Bergerac where Cyrano is female and everyone else is still their original gender?
I just had the revelation of a lifetime: if you changed Cyrano to be a woman, you would already have the perfect story of a queer woman who suppresses her feelings for her female friend because she’s resigned that her friend will never reciprocate those same emotions. Cyrano just accepts that because of his nose, he’s ugly and doesn’t deserve Roxane’s love, and dammit if that doesn’t speak to the part of me that spent years pining after girls while thinking “I’m a girl, so of course they’ll never love me, why would they?”
Like, I know there’ve been a lot of reboots and retellings that replace characters with women and/or make them gay, but I think this is one that actually works really well with the source material. It’s such a beautiful comic-tragedy that I think could really explore the soul-crushing weight of being closeted.
