“You don’t frighten us, Gondorian pig-dogs! Go and boil your bottom, sons of a silly person. I blow my nose at you, so-called Aragorn King, you and all your silly commmmm-panions. Thpppppt! Thppt! Thppt!”
As much as sometimes body-mod enthusiasts can be irritating (and the long and frustrating history of orientalism and racism within the community at large, though that’s getting more and more pushback), I find myself very suspicious about the people who claim that there is no discrimination against people who do have body mods or alt looks, and/or that they deserve it when it happens. At the core of it, it is a bit fucked up that one’s boss can dictate what harmless things a person does to their body, that don’t actually affect other people. And it’s very fucked up that people who are in theory supporters of bodily autonomy, even if the people in power disapprove of those choices, act like hiring discrimination, housing discrimination and the like is actually fine when it’s something that isn’t “out of the person’s control”.
(But given that body modification, and to some extent alt styles, are so strongly associated with being lgbt, it’s kinda telling what this is really standing in for. Like nonmonogamy/polyamory and furries, people tell on themselves with how they talk about these things.)
Like it’s very much bound up with how much a lot of people lean hard on Born This Way-type arguments for people’s rights/dignity/humanity and really shows how bad an argument it is. If people choose to put a bunch of metal and ink in their bodies, or pursue surgeries, that’s actually good and fine and they don’t deserve real, material harm for it! It’s not lessening other struggles for liberation and a dignified life to point out that even if you actively choose to diverge, maybe irrevocably, from the hegemonic ideal, you deserve safety and to be treated like a person, and that the structure of your body itself really shouldn’t rest on the opinions of bosses or landlords!
Netanyahu suspended Eiyahu for this, not because of the genocidal rhetoric, but because Israeli government policy is to not admit they have nuclear weapons
Not only is it genocidal, it’s fucking suicidal. But sure, drop nukes on your neighbours and blanket your own nation in a layer of radioactive dust.
This short story by Junji Ito is about a fault that appears in Amigara mountain after an earthquake. The earthquake exposes countless human-shaped holes in the mountain which seem to have been made about a thousand years ago. People, intrigued by these
silhouettes, gather at the site and that’s when things get creepy.
It’s about a 15-20 min read, but if you haven’t read this before, you’re in for a treat. Link above.
i mean it’s not like i can just NOT reblog amigara fault. what if one of my followers is one of the lucky ten thousand who HASN’T been unutturably altered for life by it yet? go read it! it’s creepy, but trust me, it was made for you.
