The Put-Upon And Marginalised Finally Get A Word In
Time, I think, to better ourselves. Come, let us peek at the culture pages of the Guardian:
That’s Perth, Scotland. Lest there be confusion.
Bear with me. I’m setting the scene. Stoking your anticipation.
White horse. Big horn.
Again, big horn.
Ah, tat.
Brace yourselves for a full-on face-blast of culture:
Such wonders you’ll behold. Memories to treasure forever.
Because the above is “a modern symbol of the LGBTQI+ community.” And so, while claiming to give exposure to the supposedly marginalised and unseen, the virtuous by default, the curators are expecting visitors to be enthralled by objects of mass-produced banality that are, by their own admission, utterly ubiquitous.
But wait. There’s more.
One of the above. Presumably the most photogenic.
I’m just going to leave this here, I think. Consider it an illustration of what can be done. A cultural benchmark for our times.
Regarding the aforementioned seldomness, I briefly scanned recent listings and found that the museums and galleries busily “queering” their content include the British Museum (“Desire, Love, Identity: Exploring LGBTQ Histories”), the Victoria and Albert Museum (“A Queer History of Art”), Tate Britain, Tate Kids, Queer Britain (“A riot of voices, objects, and images from the worlds of activism, art, culture, and social history”), Brighton Museum, the London Art Fair, the Glasgow Women’s Library, the Museum of Transology, the Museum of London, National Museums Liverpool, National Museums Scotland, and the National Portrait Gallery.
So seldom. So terribly seldom.
Other vigorously “queered” content can be found at New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art; the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam; and the Wellcome Collection, London, which among other things offers a “queer life-drawing workshop… focussing on queer bodies.” I have, due to space concerns – and the fear that readers may lose the will to live – omitted many more.
Despite which, Ashleigh Hibbins, the head of audiences at the Perth Museum, where unicorns await, tells us,
Ah yes, those unheard voices. The dear downtrodden.
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That would require a sense of shame.
Yes, and the internet has permitted them to all coordinate, come up with plans to disrupt normies, and become weaponized.
True. But it’s also that they have taken over various institutions: Cluster B’s and grifters and leftists* hire others like themselves while excluding normal people. Thus, they can live and work in comfort, never subjected to the terror of being disagreed with.
* Lots of overlap there.
More accurate to say the internet has sped up the process – they’ve been undermining civilisation for some time.
Because the above is “a modern symbol of the LGBTQI+ community.”
Just like the assumption that blacks can’t find the local library to vote (or even to get books for their kids), making the unicorn a central pillar of gay identity is insulting. Whenever the Left praises you, they reveal that they actually hold you in contempt.
True, but even more accurate to say it’s because we tolerate their behaviors. I really, really tire of these arguments blaming social media or the internet for things that are really a function of the complete lack of backbone by society. Especially by those on the political center to the right. Standing up to this lunacy was dismissed by such people for…decades. The excuses from the religious that we need to care for them with kindness rather than with a firm set of legal and moral codes, the whistle-past-the-graveyard excuse that (somehow) these things eventually take care of themselves, etc. Internet or no internet, this and many similar literally insane policies of neglect and tolerance are at the root of it all. Similar to “gun violence”.
More excitement from Canada:
A lively exchange ensues.
Some, as yet sketchy, details here.
And here, where we’re assured,
Whether that safety and security extends to women and girls who, while changing, find themselves confronted with – and allegedly assaulted by – a naked man is not entirely clear.
A “misunderstanding,” apparently.
Curious how the “naked man” in the video appears to be fully clothed.
Again, as yet, it’s not entirely clear who did what or why events escalated into a brawl. However, assuming that the “misunderstanding” account is true, or partly true, there’s still an obvious problem. A mentally ill man, like many other men, has evidently been told – enough times to repeat it to those who take exception – that men are allowed in women’s changing rooms.
As if this were something men can just do now without pushback or ensuing complications.
At risk of being too sensible, that’s for turning the former City Hall into a museum. Not for the pile of Chinese-manufactured toys and horrible arts-and-crafts.
Though, if this is their big-splash opening exhibition, perhaps turfing over the site for the kids to play on would have a better ROI. Even in Scotland.
To clarify my comment about unicorns above:
The Left insists black people cannot behave as adults, cannot control themselves, and are unable to study in school. Shows what they think of them.
The Left view of LBGQetc is my little pony, colored hair, and absurd weepy tic-toks–again, they view them as children, not as serious adults.
But we, the serious adults, are supposed to take all this seriously. Seriously?
Pull the other one.
Supply of what? Dubious and dusty bar snacks?
After him.
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Given that unicorns are one of the most widely depicted mythological creatures in both heraldry and pop culture, what is there to “explore?”
Leaving aside all the misuse of public funds and public virtue-signaling, there actually is something there to explore. Artistic and literary conceptions of the unicorn have changed rather a lot over the course of human history, and much like the fairy and the genie once you trace the origins of the creature and the etymology you realize the ancient world was a great deal more connected than we like to think. A museum exhibit that contained, say, actual examples of the things listed in the Wikipedia page would be worth an afternoon with the children.
I’ve never seen the “actual” Santa Claus, but I’m pretty clear on ways he’s “conceptualized.”
Your notion of what Santa Claus is and looks like are almost entirely constructed by the Coca-Cola company, c. 1931. So again, there’s a lot of interesting history of how folklore and pop culture intersect.
Fine, have my lunch money
Bless you, sir. May you not forget, until much too late, how much you dislike Branston Pickle.
Only if I can find it locally sourced.
The price of fame.
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When I worked for a major defense contractor, a group that I was working with for a short time had a dumpy, middle aged guy who was a “brony”. He had those little ponies in his cube. This was about ten years ago or so. It wasn’t a technically secret clearance area but he 99.9999% likely had one to qualify for his job. I didn’t have to deal with him directly so he didn’t creep me out so much. What did give me the creeps was how everyone else was so accepting of his little quirk.
There were a few other special people in that group as well. It was rather disproportionately female for a software engineering environment. One very attractive yet very difficult young lady was constantly catered to by nearly everyone. After I left then came back for a short while, for my own self preservation I asked what/where that little landmine was in charge of and I found out rather matter-of-factly that she had committed suicide.
I laughed and I’m not sorry (TM):
Why is it that I suspect many (most? ?all?) of the exhibits were procured with the same sort of fee you’d pay for very rare materials, directed towards the mates of the organisers?
dumpy, middle aged guy who was a “brony”
What tends to get missed about bronies is that yes, they’re creepy, but by and large they’re deeply insecure and poorly socialized to the point of borderline autism. In her quest to create a girls’ cartoon that wasn’t fluff-headed tat, the showrunner inadvertently created a passable guide to healthy social behaviour. Perhaps not representative, but I know a handful of deeply dysfunctional young men from broken families who essentially learned how to function in social situations by watching MLP:FIM.
Which is not a good thing and is deeply tragic. But it is what it is.
Oh, I get that. As I said, it wasn’t him really that creeped me so much if at all. Though it should be something of a red flag. What was creepy was the others pretending otherwise, to the point of almost celebrating his “difference”. I generally don’t care what little hobbies other people have but I don’t bring my beer can collection into work either. That would be weird. And probably “wrong” and get me in trouble with HR. I had a previous coworker/protégé at a civilian job who kept a tickle-me-elmo doll on his desk. That was weird as well. But in his weird way he seemed to think it made him more approachable to women. Given that he also believed lizard people lived inside the moon and controlled the world through via Free Masonry, he kinda needed all the help he thought he could get.
Also tbc, I believe that I once related that I had an otherwise extremely normal coworker/friend. Popular guy. Funny, smart-ish, athletic, somewhat good looking. The women at work liked him. My wife thought he looked like a young Robert De Niro. After knowing the guy for like five years he gets arrested for dropping trou outside of a Catholic school playground during recess. Normal can be hiding a lot of weird. There are a lot of straight-laced people that I might be suspicious of but nothing about this guy gave any kind of a signal.
IIRC, once a unicorn was lured in via virgin bait it was either slaughtered to obtain its horn for ‘mystical properties’ or captured and chained up in the garden to confer blessings on the home. Either way it didn’t go well for the equine cryptid.
There’s another explanation…