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"Charming"
(TRIGGER WARNING: intense othering and hostility towards people-of-color/women/queer-people, and lots of slurs)
By chance, I recently found the horrors of I’m not racist, but… and its spinoff site, I’m not sexist, but… and my goodness, what has been seen cannot be unseen. It got me thinking though. All of the images on those two tumblrs are taken ( Read more... ) -
The second ten minutes of Prince of Persia
Trigger warning: there's some discussion of sexual threats and implications of sexual violence later in this post
To recap the previous post, this film has interesting idea of Persia. It’s a confusing, almost mythic place, seemingly beyond common historical periods. It’s a massive kingdom with the borders and Gods of the Sassanid period but the ( Read more... ) -
Natural and Biblical
(Trigger warning: overt transphobia, slight homophobia, heterosexism, and sexism)So this disgusting screed against transgender people (and due to confusion as to what transgender means, arguably intersex, non-binary, and non-gender typical people as well) thinks it’s figured out a ground-breaking and always victorious set of arguments for ( Read more... ) -
The first ten minutes of Prince of Persia
Ranting in capslock about films that I watched at 1 am (like The Sorcerer's Apprentice or Kick Ass) has it's merits, but sometimes I find a movie on netflix instant that requires more nuance than capslock can convey, more depth than a single post can acheive, and more stunning weirdness than text alone can explain. The recent production of Prince ( Read more... ) -
A tale of two sects - part 3
I’m sorry this is late, I’ve been sick. In the first installment, I posed the question: “Why do former Samaritans make new Samaritans?”Speaking of this regarding Mormons, what I’ve asked is more than just a simple personal question, it’s a complex political issue. I’ve had a variety of positive experiences with Mormons as friendly people, but I’ve ( Read more... ) -
A tale of two sects - part 2
Trigger Warning - this post contains several references to child abuse.
In our last installment, I ended with the question of “Why do former Samaritans make new Samaritans?”These are deeply personal questions for me, particularly in the context of Mormons and unitarians. I grew up way back in the 90s in a community with many Mormons. My parents ( Read more... ) -
A tale of two sects - part 1
I started writing this post when I read this interesting slice of a larger article in the Atlantic about American Exceptionalism. This little subsection is intriguing, since it looks specifically at the religious justifications for a rather American-centric worldview. Throughout it places a strange amount of emphasis on Mormons who are “the only ( Read more... ) -
movies at 1 am - Kick Ass
In our second installment of "1 AM CAPS LOCK MOVIES", I take a look at the unexpectedly racist but more predictably sexist Kick Ass.
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Barton's cultural appropriation
Ok, so I think I finally found the words to explain why I made this post and then this post. I just posted this as a comment on Warren Throckmorton's really interesting blog, which you should check out:
"I think this isn't an argument over theology as much as theological history. Unitarians have been more or less erased from contemporary ( Read more... ) -
movies at 1 am - The Sorcerer's Apprentice
(This is the beginning of a new series - terrible movies at one am in all caps.)
( TERRIBLE MOVIES AT ONE AM IN ALL CAPS - THE SORCERER’S APPRENTICE )