anything for an opportunity to complain more
GarbageShoot
joined 3 years ago
but most incels think they are Kelce
I hate incels, but this is just false. The vast majority of white incels clearly either are accutely aware of being unattractive or are actually dysmorphic or have a similar disorder that warps their self-perception negatively. With non-Latino Incels of Color*, it can get a lot harder to parse their self-image because they are likely to (as a matter of incel "culture") attribute their failings in large part to a racial bias against them. In the same way that a short white incel might identify chiefly as someone fucked over by their height, an Indian or East Asian incel is likely to identify chiefly as someone fucked over by their being Indian or East Asian.
*I have never seen this phrase used, but I would be rightly banned for using the nomenclature that incels usually use for this sort of thing
A bunch of them are eggs, but I genuinely think a lot of the people who do are just cum-brained (Blizzard characters doing a good job of demonstrating that point for me). There's a thing in de-facto harem anime like SAO that there basically can't be other important male characters within the MC's peer group because there can't be even the vaguest notion of his female peers possibly being attracted to someone that isn't him. There can be no competition! I think in a cishet cum-brain's conception of things, playing as a female character can have a similar appeal because you control her agency and constantly have her in view of your camera, typically completely oblivious to your perspective as you look at her from whichever which way.
But I broadly avoid media and people like this, so I wouldn't know
Start Again is a really cool mini-JRPG and I'm surprised it's one of the last ones left
It's a pretty picture tho
I think you ask a valid question, though it's also worth asking if the people in charge just don't like grappling the the prevalence of users on other instances that they can't moderate, since they are emphatically anticommunist and lemmy, while way more liberal now than it once was, maintains a relatively strong contingent of communists from its past life.
So, you can get the table of contents from the sample here:
https://frontrange.overdrive.com/frontrange-lafayette/content/media/6724435?cid=1160906
Gorbachev gets a spot but Stalin doesn't. They include Mao and Lenin. Under philosophers, they ignore obvious choices like Plato, Nietzsche, [Marx is relegated to "cultural icon"], and really anyone but Buddha, Confucius, and Aristotle for people who are conventionally seen in the west as "philosophers". Thank God they didn't waste a spot on Kant, had to make sure to include Billy Graham and Mother fucking Theresa! "But Graham was a Civil Rights activist!" This would maybe be a valid point if they had Malcolm X (let alone someone like Huey Newton), but they don't.
Also Mary Wollstonecraft gets put in "cultural icon" instead of "philosopher", which I find kind of odd, but Beauvoir doesn't appear anywhere either.
Furthermore, the list is extraordinarily American-centric, but that goes without saying. Who in their right fucking mind puts Obama on this list? Elvis? Dr. Seuss, maybe, but how in the world does P.T. Barnum qualify?
Classical critics rank the highly controversial Beethoven over classical musicians who were highly popular in courts around Europe.
You can go further than that, as it has been pointed out that the canonicity of figures like Beethoven (who, to be clear, was a brilliant musician who deserves to be studied) was in large part due to the projects of historical-cultural revisionism by German nationalists and provides a warped understanding of the history of the development of music in Europe.
I'm an atheist, an anti-theist, and the first person to point out fabrications in the Bible (shout-out to all of Matthew's testament on the resurrection), but there is absolutely no reason to believe Jesus wasn't a historical figure
I can't fault you for that