#the slutshaming is a satire

[alterin]

How to dress like basic Japanese bangya on the GazettE’s concert.

First, put on a black long sleeve shirt. You don’t want to expose any skin, even if it’s a humid Japanese summer.

If you’re feeling a bit extra (or if you want to look “cute”), instead of a regular black long sleeve, put on a long sleeve with a collar. Like that.

Now put on a band t shirt. Oh, you’re definitely going to boil to death. You can wear a t shirt from the previous tour, it doesn’t really matter. But cool girl came prepared or picked up a shirt in a venue and got dressed in the restroom, cause they came 8 hours earlier.

For the bottom, you don’t want to wear pants, cause it’s masculine and eww in general. You also don’t want to wear a mini skirt, cause you’re not a slut, so let’s go with a safe variant.

For accessories - face mask and a tote bag. Don’t forget to grab your collection of bears and put them on your bag, cause why did you spend thousands on them?

Bonus points if the mask is in some pastel colors, while your outfit if mainly black.

That’s it, now you’re ready to stand in the venue’s hall for 3 hours waiting!

#the slutshaming is a satire #everything else is real #we really went from colourful and wild outfits to THIS #aren’t they want to make bandmen to look at them? #I mean it would make more sense if they wore their best outfits #or they want to show like #hey I’m spending my salary on you! look at me! #anyway I never was on a gazette concert and as they say when in Rome do as the romans do

[thedragonkingkazimir]

The Dragon King Kazimir - Issue One, Part One (Panels 1-10)

#tw smoking #tohru adachi #fancomic #fanime #mspaint #satire #sarcasm #tw religious themes #tw angels #tw angel #the dragon king kazimir #tw slutshaming #tw mysoginy #webcomic

[thedreadvampy]

hey guys can we talk about 2008-2012 BBC3 reality makeover show Snog Marry Avoid? and how it's a seminal piece of feminist satire orrrrrr?

cause this is my number one soapbox trigger (that doesn't have to do with rape culture) and if you follow me on Twitter you've just seen my classic SMA rant hit again

THERE IS NO FUCKING WAY. THAT THIS SHOW. WAS INTENDED TO BE PLAYED STRAIGHT.

It is a piece of camp subversion wearing the mask of the then-popular makeover reality show format where a presenter belittles, mocks, bodyshames and slutshames a guest about their deviance from conventional beauty norms, in order to Fix Them by making them more nondescript and socially acceptable.

the things which make SMA a Subversion of the genre are:

The "makeunder" concept, meaning that rather than selecting guests who are posited as being too poor, fat, incompetent or afraid to appropriately confirm to beauty standards, SMA guests are universally people who invest a lot of time and energy into their unique looks - makeup, hair, piercings, surgeries, expensive or customised clothing and jewellery. It gives them plenty of airtime to talk about what they enjoy about their aesthetic and why they choose it. This means that we can't understand them as accidentally failing to meet societal beauty standards - we have to accept their aesthetic as a choice, and therefore accept the makeover concept as a conflict between them and...

...the central conceit, in which a robot modelled in a very Evil AI aesthetic is responsible for bringing out a guest's "natural beauty" through the visible artifice of wigs, makeup and clothing. this is framed against the artifice of the guests original look, which is mocked and derided for being fake and weird, but a lot of screen time is given to the process of overlaying that with different heavy makeup and wigs.

The guest's attitude, which, unlike in other makeover shows, is usually entering with complete confidence in themselves and their aesthetic choice. Therefore we are pushed to understand POD's negging and shaming as being an attempt to break down their individuality, confidence and joy in themself, and to understand it as a triumph when the guest inevitably returns to their original look (be it orange tan and hair extensions, corpse paint, or elf ears) at the end of the show.

oh yeah. The evil AI that tries to make people with cultivated individual looks put on "no makeup makeup" and business casual clothing and perform acceptability for a crowd of strangers is Literally Called POD. as in you go into the pod and come out a confirming member of society. a person of the pod, if you will.

like is it subtle? No! Not even a little bit! but apparently too subtle for people to have got the joke cause now I'm constantly seeing people holding it up as an example of the cruelty of 2000s media and not, as it pretty obviously is, a reaction to that cruelty.

Several friends of friends went on that show, since I had pals who were pretty big into the scene kid and cybergoth communities at the time - as far as I'm aware they all had a whale of a time. and we as alt kids were hooked on this show cause it's a really good sendup of the type of cruel conformist content that was unironically all over the place from your Gok Wans and Trinnies and Susannahs and yeah tbh also your Queer Eyes.

It textually replicates the bodyshaming, slutshaming, homophobia and negging that was core to those shows (although it largely skipped over the fatshaming and ageism to my memory) but in the format and framing of the show it invites us to laugh at the absurdity of that and to root for the guest to defeat the host.

In highlighting both the aesthetic the guest chooses and the aesthetic the show prefers as being conscious artifice, then testing that against how strangers react, it makes visible that the only meaningful difference between the guest's aesthetic and the show's aesthetic is whether it's performed to gain social acceptance or personal joy. and the guests pretty exclusively and unequivocally choose personal joy.

I do not know why defending this specific late 2000s artefact as a piece of subversive camp is So Important To Me but by god I've chosen this hill and I'll die on it even if nobody's coming to kill me

#red said

[myfuckingpenexploded]

how to win any argument

OK SO ITS TIME FOR THE ACRONIM

NFBBICSCSD (pronounced like you think it is)

(warning this is satire i dont mean to offend anyone)

Never be the bigger person. Don't be mean, this is just a warning if you want to be the bigger person, skip this guide.

Flirt. A basic one, but it works. Make them so uncomfy act like you enjoy this call them pretty boy it does not matter just flirt

Bamboozle. Confuse them with fake words. While they're googling what they mean, think of a good argument.

Bewilder. Talk fast. thats all

Infantilise. Act like they're a fussy toddler.

Confuse. start talking about random things

Slutshame. as a treat yk.

Change the subject. THE WEATHERS BEEN NICE HASNT IT BETHANY

Scare. Make them think you're crazy

Deflect. UNO REVERSE NOW YOU'RE THE ONE BEING BERATED

anyway have fun

#satire #kind of #how to win any argument #unethical edition

[now-that-i-saw-you]

"SLUT!" Doesn't feel like a song that would be slow and melancholy. It's not just Slut, it sounds like a shout, it sounds like it would be angry. I'm thinking of the way she sings "getting bitches and models" in The Man (it's pop, but still full of anger). Something like "They call me a SLUT! but I'll do what I WANT because no choice is right". Maybe this song would be the one most different from 1989 (2014), one that shows a slightly different turn the album could've taken lyrically and production-wise. Maybe it's Blank Space's predecessor the way Nothing New led to The Lucky One and Castles Crumbling to Long Live, but I don't necessarily think it'd be sadder. I think it will just address the slutshaming more directly. Shake It Off is like "this is annoying, but I laugh about it and move on" and Blank Space is a satire meant to show how ridiclous it is. "SLUT!" feels like it's gonna be more "this is really, really, really fucking annoying me and it takes so much willpower to ignore this and fuck you all"

Say Don't Go sounds like a song in which the vocals would be vocalizing. Somewhere between All You Have To Do Was Stay and Wildest Dreams, The Other Side Of The Door's pop sister. She's walking out, maybe because she feels like she has to, but she wants him to tell her not to go. When she sings "say don't go" her voice will soar, like the way she sings in Need.

Now That We Don't Talk sounds like a very pop song, an I Wish You Would-adjacent, a Single girl anthem. She will linger on the words in the title "Now. That. We. Don't. Talk." The song will be about the freedom that comes from leaving a relationship "Now that we don't talk // I can do what I want'

Or it might be more of an I Miss You song, how hard it is to go from doing everything with someone and talking to them everyday to No Contact. "Now that we don't talk // everything's so dark"

Suburban Legends - after looking it up, a suburban legend is a tall tale and that seems very fitting for the album and the entire era. The antithesis to "the rumours are terrible and cruel // but honey most of them are true". I imagine the song will have Cool City Girl Vibes like New Romantics and Welcome To New York, maybe mixed with Style. A song about how people spread false rumours about her and her lover, how the crowds enjoy nitpicking her, and how they clearly live for the drama and gossip. She and her lover are legends because "they never go out of style"

Is It Over Now? makes me thing of Out Of The Woods. A song about anxiety in a on-again off-again relationship. Is it over now? Can we stop fighting? The way this question is phrased also makes me thing she might want it to be over, she wants to be able to walk out, she wants the pain this relationship is causing her to end. I think it's fitting for a closing track.

On the other hand, the rerecording have shown us that since Speak Now era, Taylor's had anxieties about people growing tired of her (Castles Crumbling, Nothing New). People were really cruel to her during the RED era. So maybe this song will be about wondering if this is her last chance of fame, if after that people will no longer tolerate her. I'm thinking about her crying all the way home from 2014 GRAMMYs after RED lost. Maybe it'd be like Clean or right where you left. On the preface a breakup song but when you dig deeper, it's clearly about a very personal struggle. I imagine this having the kind of slow productions Clean and This Love have.

#taylor swift #1989 (taylor's version) #swiftie theories #from the vault

[thenighttrain]

i think the misguided perception also mostly just comes from WANEGT and IKYWT, not even her whole discography of her teenage years? during red era when it was a peak of the slutshaming jokes? (which... also kinda a product of fandom dramas over haylor). plus people never getting the satire in blank space 🤦‍♀️

I feel like it existed before red (e.g. Joe Jonas) but yeah I think WANEGBT definitely made it a lot worse...... but do people really not know that blank space is satire ?????

#anonymous #ask

[nightcoremoon]

I got an anon that said my life would be better if I stopped commenting on posts, and someone who reblogged the breakdown post and just said slurs, right next to each other.

pEoPLe wOuLdNt aTtAcK yOu iF yOu jUsT sToPpEd tALkiNg... #unfortunate implications

there is such a huge insurmountable disconnect between zoomer discoursers and reality. it would be funny if it wasn't so pathetic and sad.

a discussion about how joking about kids dying from corona is as unfunny as joking about kids dying from school shooting SOMEHOW turned into me being racist because I disagreed with a person who was black- despite not knowing that they were black, not knowing what the fuck that has anything to do with the original conversation- and saw racist shit on the blog without the proper context to indicate that it was satirical and assumed that the person with the racist shit on their blog was racist because I'm a fucking idiot who thinks that posting racist thing probably means you're racist I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ - and then me being gaslit, swarmed, insulted, and suicide baited by their toxic peers.

they're bad people. I don't care if they're not bigoted (even though they are cuz they're calling me slurs. lmao fuckin transparent), they're all terrible people. a good person wouldn't send a dozen anons consisting of a clown emoji. a good person wouldn't send an all caps paragraph of how I'm a racist asshole who should kill myself because I didn't read your last anon. a good person wouldn't do that.

and I respect good people who might commit an accidental microaggression WAY MORE than bad people who exercise moral purity for clout. it's the exact same thing as Christians™ who harass LGBTQ youth, oppose affirmative action and other programs designed to aid poc, and slutshame women for using tampons, just to look clean and pristine in the eyes of their lord. you might feel like you're a good person from your perspective but clearly we have different definitions of the term "good person".

except the zoomer discoursers are typically nihilist christian atheists and I have no idea who they're trying to please. I'd say cthulu but since lovecraft was racist they'll swarm you and call YOU racist if you show any sign you might like something that lovecraft did. hashtag yikes.