a killer-diller coat with a drape shape, reet pleats and shoulders padded like a lunatic’s cell

Malcolm X on Zoot Suits (he was a very stylish man, also zoot suits during the war were a rebellion against social norms and to an extent cloth rationing)

Holy shit, so apparently (according to this book) it’s likely that Dionysus was originally a god of the Minoans, a people the Greeks conquered, who became a colonized working class. Their gender norms were different (and cooler) and basically Dionysus is a liberator god for that reason.

Also the Minoans were probably Matrilineal.

70s Feminist Song About Abortion

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

It was the lord who commanded women’s work and social relations, deciding,
for instance, whether a widow should remarry and who should be her spouse, in some
areas even claiming the ius primae noctis – the right to sleep with a serf’s wife on her
wedding night.

Caliban and The Witch – Silvia Federici

Ius Primae Noctis was not a thing, for fuck’s sake.

Also it’s really interesting being married to a walking encyclopedia of the eastern front of WWII

Mostly I hear a lot of rants about what bullshit Enemy At The Gates was.

Midwives were NOT persecuted during the witch trials

MIDWIVES WERE NOT PERSECUTED DURING THE WITCH TRIALS

MIDWIVES WERE NOT PERSECUTED DURING THE FUCKING WITCH TRIALS AND IF I EVER HEAR YOU SPOUT THAT UNSUBSTANTIATED COUNTERFACTUAL BULLSHIT AGAIN I WILL FUCKING SLAP YOU

Also like

did you guys not understand that I got to touch an internal CNT bulletin from during the Spanish Civil war the other day?

I also don’t understand why people accuse me of being censorious when I point out a media creator had shitty politics

Like you’re the one who seems to think it’s unthinkable to read a book by an author who’s not a paragon of moral rectitude, and you think I’m the one advocating censorship?

Like I am a HUGE fan of Lovecraft’s fiction, I think the Cthulhu mythos is an incredible fictional creation and undeniably deserves a place in the literary canon for its creativity and originality.

That said, Lovecraft was a fucking racist, a REALLY virulent and horrible fucking racist, and no let’s not get into “of his time” cause like Lovecraft’s time featured men like him but also the IWW was a thing

And you know what? Not once has the social justice community ever jumped down my throat for loving the fuck out of Cthulhu, and do you know why? Because I don’t try to defend Lovecraft the man, nor do I feel the need to cover up how HORRIBLE his views were to appreciate his stories about monsters (which yes, often also feature a heaping scoop of racism, which I can also acknowledge while still fucking liking the story).

But for some reason there are a lot of people who think you can’t like a piece of media unless you love the creator as a person. I mean honestly it’s you who’s unable to separate the art from the artist, not me.

The fact that Dionysus wore a leopard skin proves that glam rock has existed forever.

Also “we’re the granddaughters of the witches you couldn’t burn” pisses me off

Cause you know what? The victims of witch trials weren’t fucking witches, they were just people who were unpopular and a convenient scapegoat when people got sick or had a bad harvest or whatever. They didn’t do anything, they were not what they were accused of being and your bullshit is actually gross and insulting, because it implies you believe the mass hysteria of the time. It’s bad history and its disrespectful. That said I think the fact that the majority of the time the people they went after were women says a lot about who society looks to when it needs a scapegoat.