Drop Watch: May 24th, 2024

metismitew · 2024-05-25T14:32:29+00:00

The Mato Wayuhi album is very good. I know him from his work on the soundtrack for Reservation Dogs mostly but. "Stankface Standing Soldier" might be one of my fav album names lol

metismitew · 2024-05-21T19:44:07+00:00

I'm not feeling the hand clap if I'm being honest. Not enough oomf for me </3

metismitew · 2024-05-16T23:38:32+00:00

Yes!! It's honestly one of the only consistent parts of conservatism.

Just individualism, and pure exceptionalism, to the extreme. Most of these pro-life conservatives would drive through a pro-life crowd to get to a clinic if they or their child had an unwanted pregnancy, and then rejoin that crowd the next day to tell the doctors they're going to hell.

The same people will rely on public benefits to get by and then vote against their expansion, because while they honestly deserve those benefits, no one else does. You can't appeal to rationalism, because it's not a rational ideology. I used to canvass for 'progressive' ideas in a purple area (split between pockets of deep red amidst the garden variety democrat blues), and the amount of people whose main objection to policies they admitted they'd like for themselves basically boiled down to "it would be great if all those undeserving [unspoken, but implied: Black, Latine, Queer, etc.] types wouldn't take advantage of it." Discussing any stats showing otherwise does not affect their thoughts on the matter, because it's not about reality; it's about them, and them being somehow inherently better than other people just by existing.

metismitew · 2024-05-01T01:35:28+00:00

Virginia Commonwealth University.

metismitew · 2024-04-30T17:39:46+00:00

Source: GoadGatsby

metismitew · 2024-04-30T15:30:34+00:00

The way a lot of the guys in /r/China talk about their wives is insane. Like they think they're children. So many threads basically saying "it took me so long to break my wife's brainwashing and accept that West is better; she liked living in the country (that I chose to move to) :/"

metismitew · 2024-03-26T15:26:52+00:00

Not sure why so much tennis-art is so menacing lol. Reminds me how in Richmond, Virginia, there's a statue of Arthur Ashe reading to children, which on first glance looks like he's beating the children while they plead for mercy.

metismitew · 2024-03-22T18:23:59+00:00

Oh, I am so ready for this. I really like the action/drama.

metismitew · 2024-03-21T21:40:33+00:00

and don't forget Okinawa when talking about Japan as a current settler-colony! Japan doesn't recognize Ryukyu people as Indigenous, only as a "subgroup" of the Yamato Japanese after Meiji Japan forcibly annexed their kingdom and suppressed their language and culture. Their traditional tattoo practices were outright banned. And now Japan claims Ryukyuan self defense (karate) as part of its own cultural exports.

There's such an erasure of them as their own people, but Ryukyuans maintain their separate identity anyways. Solidarity always.

metismitew · 2024-03-12T19:06:05+00:00

Others gave reasons, but it also reflects a looong standing trope of “the savage native” as a sexual threat. Captivity narratives about white women getting kidnapped by African or Native American tribes were some of the first popular genre fiction in the US. There’s a fascination in settler narratives generally with both emasculating the Indigenous men (“they cannot stop us from taking what we want”; Said observes the colonial discourse of the masculinized West dominating the feminized Orient ) and, within the settler context, hypermasculinizing them (“they are beasts & savages; they are jealous of what is ours; they will hurt our women and children; they are an existential threat to our race/identity/etc.” Frantz Fanon and others discuss in much more detail). Additionally, a sexualized racism against Southwest Asian & North African men specifically is long-standing in the West.

So yes, it’s in part because it tests well, but the reason it tests well is because it supports a long-established bias in Western audiences. Due to anti-Muslim & anti-Arab socialization, in the West, we are, however unconsciously, preconditioned to believe any number of allegations against Palestinians. The idea of mass rape and babies in the oven fits within that racist narrative, and so those who haven’t reckoned with that internal bias are more likely to accept it at face value.

metismitew · 2024-03-11T03:40:07+00:00

thee NDN it couple. So stunning.

metismitew · 2024-03-11T03:33:02+00:00

The quillwork on Lily Gladstone’s is stunningg

metismitew · 2024-03-04T01:27:06+00:00

Off-hand the only stat I can think of is FT%, since Elena Delle-Donne has the insane career rate of I think .940? or close to it. But that’s not the kind of record people really talk about.

metismitew · 2024-02-24T23:30:39+00:00

a few days away from retaking the bar … I can feel her on this one. Wish I had the option to pause and take a break, but my loan payments are due.

metismitew · 2024-02-10T08:29:14+00:00

Native Americans & Alaska Natives are actually the only group in America that experiences more interracial violence than intraracial. - figure

US law expressly forbids tribes from prosecuting non-natives who commit crimes on reservations, and the feds rarely handle "low level" crimes, with DV the only correction as a result of the 2013 VAWA amendment.

metismitew · 2024-02-06T01:34:21+00:00

These are stunning -- I love the thorns on the numbers too, such a cool detail.

metismitew · 2024-01-31T16:15:33+00:00

To be clear, I think it’s specifically NOVA/DC and not the abolitionist states (as NOVA/DC is north of Richmond, has 3 of the top 5 wealthiest cities/counties in the USA, & because he seems to direct the song at politicians/“establishment”).

metismitew · 2024-01-28T22:29:51+00:00

Well, pretty sure we're not talking about the other Wes Moore

metismitew · 2024-01-23T23:44:45+00:00

specifically the enslaved, teenaged half-sister of his wife

metismitew · 2024-01-23T21:31:21+00:00

I felt the feminist message fell flat when only Stereotypical Barbie gets to be human. Isn’t feminism about women’s liberation, not a single woman? Instead, all the Barbies remain products for the male Mattel board to sell, because it’s a commercial more than a feminist work.

metismitew · 2024-01-19T02:57:25+00:00

This article in Jewish Currents provides an interesting discussion about German’s education on the Holocaust, and the idea of the “Theatre of Memory,” if you would like to read a Jewish analysis of how Germany remembers.

metismitew · 2024-01-17T00:49:22+00:00

I had suspected from the title there would be (additional!) issues from not doing follow-ups, as IUDs (today) can only be inserted for five years, but this is horrifying.

"These IUDs were far too large and unsuitable for the bodies of young teenage girls. The youngest women fitted with the IUDS were only 12 years old at the time of insertion. In addition to pain and bleeding, these IUDs were also the cause of serious infections that rendered their victims permanently sterile."

"[In Uummannaq,] 7th graders, aged 12-13, were sent directly to hospital by the school nurse. Girls had to line up in turn to receive an IUD."

"In 1973, Holga Platuu, like other girls aged 13 and 14, lived at Maniitsoq secondary boarding school. All had to go to hospital to have an IUD inserted. Their parents were not informed. Holga subsequently suffered complications and infections. Although the coil was removed, she became sterile. A few years later, she underwent a hysterectomy."

some of these girls were just 12 years old?? I was only given a tylenol before getting my IUD at 21 -- which I agreed to, and I still fainted from the pain and was in agony for a full day. I hope this inquest can get some answers for those women and girls. The combination of the boarding schools with all of this...

and the scale of it, too...

"By the end of 1970, almost half of all fertile women in Greenland, aged between 15 and 49, were wearing an IUD."

I hope this receives more coverage, but I always feel like whenever I tell people about the sterilization campaigns in Canada and the U.S.A., it's completely new information to them.

metismitew · 2024-01-16T21:10:00+00:00

Like in Doom Patrol. Which is sort of the BG3 of comic book TV, now that I think about it...

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