Phantom of the Opera
Phantom of the Opera
Phantom of the Opera
PHANTOM OF THE OPERA AT HER MAJESTY’S THEATRE GUYS SERIOUSLY
A while ago my dear friend Kiika told me to come to Lion’s Arch to look at her cute new asura.
So I did and-
what.
what
hAVE YOU DONE????
KIIKA
This will be in my nightmares.
I wish I could hate my mum. I really do. It would be so much easier to tell her I (once again)want to drop our relationship. If I didn’t care it would be easier to ignore it when she tells me I’m irresponsible, stubborn, resolute, unable to make progress in my depression (which I have, for the record), and am unable to face critique.
Well, mum, I think you too might have been a bit sad if someone shouted this in your face while you were asking them to please respect you and your descision.
But that’s just a guess.
Because of NaNoWriMo I’m taking a 30-day break from Tumblr. To keep you all occupied in the mean time I’ll leave you with this picture of my kitten.
To the person who just messaged me: Sorry, I sent that prematurely. Here’s the rest:
It may be that you are right, and that Dan meant the word and not the action of masturbating, if which, I owe him an apology. I agree the word ‘schluck’ isn’t very attractive.
However, I will not delete my post, as it still stands in and of itself (though I’ll edit in an explaination and apology).
As for not tagging Dan, due to his ravenous fans, I knew this was a provocative topic and having Dan, and his fans, see this was definately my aim. Whether the responses I’d get were good or not didn’t matter. If I start a debate I won’t be sorry. But thanks anyway for the advice! :)
I was just browsing youtube…
And decided to click a video that was in my recommended box.
This is going to be some not-so-nice bashing of sexism so be warned.
A graphic I’m working on for tomorrow’s Vlogbrothers video. It’s a topic I’ve wanted to discuss for a long time, but have been somewhat afraid of making people angry. Let me know if there’s anything I got wrong.
Few things!
- Gender role isn’t a binary either. Lots of people fill both or alternate or neither or just don’t give two fucks.
- Trans men are men; trans women are women. Putting “transgender” as a third option implies that they’re different. A better third option would be “non-binary”, but there are plenty more (genderqueer, agender, bigender) that could be there.
- Same with sexual orientation - there’s lots more there. Also there should be a distinction made between sexual and romantic orientation - asexuals can be aromantic, but many are romantic, and can be heteroromantic, biromantic, panromantic, homoromantic, etc.
- DO NOT CONFLATE BEHAVIOUR WITH ATTRACTION. They are two completely separate things. A gay man who has sex with a woman is not bisexual if he says he’s gay. An asexual person can enjoy the physical sensations involved with sex and still be asexual, because they are not sexually attracted to anyone. Really sexual behaviour if you have to have it on here shouldn’t make reference to gender at all - better things would be kinky/vanilla, polyamorous/monogamous, celibate.
- Better than having sex be “Male/Female/Intersex” would be an explanation about the terms AMAB and AFAB (Assigned Male/Female At Birth) and how they relate to both trans* and intersex people. Listing sex as separate from gender can help but it can also really hurt because lots of transphobes use the distinction to go WELL YOU’RE *REALLY* A <BLANK> and then claim they only care about sex, not gender.
As this post encompasses many of the comments and suggestions I’ve seen, I’m responding to this one specifically (thank you to /everyone/ who has responded.)
- I’m going to take categories off gender roles completely, and just discuss what a gender role is in the video.
- I’ve already fixed the “transgender” under gender and replaced it with “non-binary/agender.” I don’t think I need to say “trans-man” as I don’t think “trans-man” is a different gender than “man.”
- I’ve put in a note about romantic orientation and I’m going to be emphasizing in my script that sexual orientation is not a collection of isolated types, but instead a fluid continuum that can and does change over time.
- Sexual behavior is indeed not confused with sexual attraction and I will make that clear in the talky bits.
- I’m not going to spend a lot of time on sex in the video, even though it’s fascinating and complicated, I’m aiming to clear up the more complicated stuff. But thank you for the note on some people’s perpetual linking of sex and gender, I think I cover that well in the script as well.
Looking forward to tomorrow’s vlogbrother’s video.
