Male friendship - close, deep, platonic friendship between two men (sexual orientation of the parties involved not a factor, they don’t want each other) where there’s talking and shared emotions and deep empathy... isn’t celebrated or seen much, thanks mostly to homophobia, sexism, and the American mythos of being a…

Basically, the fujoshi declare any depiction of homosocial/platonic bonding by men in media to be sexual and lose their fucking minds when the showrunners don’t reveal it to have been sexual, in effect campaigning for the elimination of male friendship from culture.

but getting upset at fans (LGBT+ or otherwise) simply enjoying fan interpretations or exploring that potential in fanworks is even more daft

I don’t think I’ve ever seen it from gay men, though, just fujoshi.

I think the slash/yaoi shippers have always been much more aggressive, particularly in attacking anyone who stays in reality when their fantasy comes up (also, in assaulting people with “paddles”), and the idea that shippers have ownership of media has only made them worse. They take the showrunners not showing up at…

He’s 100% referring to female fans who get off on the idea of two attractive men boning but don’t want to admit it’s a fantasy and so instead claim it’s “coded” and ownership of the media they’re consuming, crying “queer baiting” when the show doesn’t cater to their fetish.

I’ve heard that suggested, but my impression was that it’s more of a sports superstition than something backed up by research.

The original American cornbread recipe calls for cornmeal, salt, hot water, and lard. That’s it.

The big thing I saw was that the original model curriculum only mentioned Jews to call them privileged, didn’t mention Mizrahi in its MENA unit despite Mizrahi (and it looks like Persian Jews alone) outnumbering all other MENA populations except Ashkenazim combined and a stated goal of the curriculum being to reflect…

It seems to be working for me since Firefox updated. I wonder if there’s a back-compatibility issue.

Well, at least he didn’t participate in a festival pageant that had been named after something racist decades before his participation.

You cut out “in many areas,” which is a problem given that the vast majority of the American population lives in water-rich areas of the coast and Midwest.

A slideshow-listicle seems inappropriate for a topic like this.

R/askhistorians talked about the role of slavery in Texas’ independence, with the interesting point that being a part of Mexico in the early Nineteenth Century was like being a part of the USSR in the late Twentieth Century: you’re in good company at that exit. With that as context, literally every policy matter…

Sexiest, maybe, but not best at putting on pants.

That is aggressively awful. You know how sometimes movies have outfits that are purposely awful, either to show a character is unfashionable or homeless, and you can tell the costumer went to the trouble of fashioning custom items to make the whole thing uglier than is possible with off-the-rack items? I’m pretty sure…

Is the ball’s past any more racist that Carnival/Mardi Gras (originally conceived as a festival to humiliate Rome’s Jews, still has antisemitic floats and incidents every year and actually has dressing up as Jews and assaulting people as an inherent part in Lithuania), Easter (passion plays, pogroms), and Christmas…

So I’ve been reading a lot of “so you’re going to have a baby” books lately, and rule one in each and every naming section is “don’t name your child like he’s just going to a baby for ever.” Sure enough, these two gave their kid a childhood nickname.

Did anyone else notice that there was exactly jack shit for Jewish American History Month last month (including on Lifehacker), and no companies as far as I could find even doing tepid things like saying it’s not O.K. to assault or harass Jews of deface synagogues in response to those things happening (and politicians…

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