Schrödinger’s Storm Prep
The double edge of hurricane prep is that “you can see them coming”
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Swagger vs Swish in Luke Cage S2
For the most part, I’m not the person to be diving into the cultural explorations at play in Luke Cage‘s second season. Issues of colorism, black exceptionalism, and cultural tensions within the black community are all woven into a strong second season, but they’re also explorations a white dude shouldn’t be judging the success of. …
On Well-Wishing: A Parable
Imagine for a moment that you’re a personal assistant, and further, that you share the same birthday as your boss. You’re totally excited for your boss’s birthday. They’re a wonderful person. They pay you well. They even give you your joint birthday off. But every year in the days and weeks leading up to your …
That Word. I Think It Both Does and Does Not Mean What You Think It Means
Doing or saying or thinking a racist thing does not make you a cross-burning, hood-wearing, swastika-sporting Racist. I think that’s important to articulate because, much the same way people seem to get confused by marriage the secular set of rights vs marriage the religious institution, the resonance of the same word applied to different circumstances …
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Your New Boyfriend Is an Asshole, and You Know It: a Fable
Here’s the thing: your friends warned you when you started dating this new guy that he was bad news. They told you stories about the stuff he’d done to mutual friends. They told you the kinds of things he was saying about them. But he promised he was going to take care of you and …
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Gay Per Saying: Penguin, Iceman, and Queer Discovery
A few months back, I went on a little bit of a Twitter rant about the monoculture that’s grown up around what a gay narrative is. At the time, I was railing against Robin Lord Taylor’s assertion that his Penguin wasn’t “gay per se” because the character didn’t recognize a gay sexual attraction until his …
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A Drop of Gay Goes Further, Apparently
I went on a bit of a Twitter rant the other day about Mass Effect: Adromeda and gay male romance. Not about the restricted choices, since I realize that isn’t new. I’d already read a bunch of the romance guides and seen that, if I wanted to have me some boys macking on each other, …
On My Being, Political
It is once again the time of year when people in my social media feeds start posting about Not Removing Friends Over Politics. I’ll paraphrase here, but given the content is pretty much of a piece, I’m all right boiling it down to variations on one or more of these: Friends are more important than …
I’m Only Afraid That Your Offense Is Fabricated (by a 12-year-old)
One of the perennial memes that crosses my screen goes like this: When I was a kid, we did X, but now kids can’t do X because people are afraid of offending someone. There follows the usual “share if you…” blah blah nonsense which is the lifeblood of social media, but that’s an entirely separate …
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If You Can’t Tell People of Color From Dogs and Martians, I Can’t Help You
I did a bit of spitting and stuttering about this interview of The Coen Brothers by Jen Yamato on social media, but the more I stewed, the more I had to rant about, so I thought I’d take it to the lengthier venue of the blog. Ignore the title of over at The Daily Beast. …
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