#women and queer history and older media and sincere academic discourses surrounding minorities are things I see this site spit on

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I hate Goncharov so much it's unreal

#it's like a bad joke. I mean. it is a bad joke. but good god the way people behave over it is also a bad joke #every time I see that fake film referenced I think about the post about how it has the best women Tumblr could ask for #because any woman from a made up film can be vaguely girlboss-y without ever having any unpleasantly ambiguous details #all the shallow celebration of the idea of a female character without that unpleasant work of engaging with the complexities of one #without any of the argument or doubt #without having men to pass over her for or complain about her crimes against #that's why I hate goncharov. it's the pinnacle of shallow aestheticization of everything whether or not it's sincere. #historical media without the burden of engaging with history #queer media and queer history without having to imagine messy queerness beyond an online discourse #you can dip your toes into a made up academic discourse without the baggage of the academy #women and queer history and older media and sincere academic discourses surrounding minorities are things I see this site spit on #sure it's not everyone. but it's more than enough to make a guy bitter. #the older I get the more I understand critics who say that the triumph of fandom is when the simulacrum subsumes the real #I don't know. I don't know. it's like some kind of bad reflection. it's neither catalyst nor symptom but just a sad magic mirror of reality #that's the only true artistic triumph of everyone's favorite “forgotten” film. #sorry I have slowly become a serious hater. it was funny at first but now it isn't. #rambling