GET TESTED FOR COVID-19 TO COVID-25, ITS VARIANTS, DELTA AND OMICRON, AND GET JABBED, BOOSTED, KILLED AS WELL AS YOUR BABIES...
Rokfin Wed, 16 Mar 2022 at 14:19 PM.
Tuesday 15 March 2022 - sheeple as young as 17 flocking to get "tested"???
TO QUESTION THE COVID-19 DOGMA IS A "CONSPIRACY THEORY", THE YOUNG 17 YEAR OLD BOY TOLD ME!
YOU HAVE ZERO SYMPTOMS, WE, THE TRANSSCIENTISTS CAN STILL TEST YOU AND FIND OUT YOU'VE GOT TRANSCOVID DELTACRON ANYWAY!
LIKE THE TRANSBIBLE, OUR TRANSSCIENCE CANNOT BE REFUTED!!! YOU HAVE NOTHING, BUT WE ALWAYS FIND SOMETHING TO MAKE BIG PHARMA RICHER AND RICHER!
BUT, ABOVE EVERYTHING ELSE GET TRANSGENDERED, NOW, BEFORE CLIMATE WARMING LAUNCHES ITS PANDEMIC ATTACKS FROM THE BILL & MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION AND WHO!
YOU MUST TRUST US BECAUSE WE ARE TRANSGODS AND TRANSVAXXERS WHO WILL SAVE YOU FROM YOUR SHITTY LIFE STYLES.
2022 Feb 25
No, I Will Not Use Your Neopronouns
I get it. Being transgender is a real concept, and I support trans lives, trans dreams, and trans hearts. I’ll also refer to a person as he/him if their biological sex is female, or if they prefer she/her if they were born male. I’ll even call someone they/them, as I do believe some individuals may legitimately not know where they stand on the gender continuum, and it would be rash to reject the notion that gender is fluid.
I’m a CIS male, but I’m definitely not as masculine as some guys. In fact, I have a few feminine traits. As a gay person, I can, to some degree, empathize with trans people because I know what it’s like to be condemned to the closet, only with those who are transgender, it’s being gay in society times 1,000.
That said, I will not use your neopronouns.
For anyone who doesn’t know what neopronouns are, they are pronouns that go beyond the notion of he/him, she/her, and even they/them. A few examples of neopronouns include Ne, Ze/Zie and Hir, and Xe; and some neopronouns go as far as to transform nouns into pronouns, such as tree/treeself, bee/beeself, star/starself, and so forth. Yes, it’s real. The New York Times wrote an article about this phenomenon, and Keiynan Lonsdale, an actor featured in the movie Love, Simon, officially declared himself as “tree” in 2018.
And why will I not be using your preferred neopronouns? Because it’s a joke.
It’s time we take a shot of both whisky and reality and call this shit what it is. Since the rise of LGBTQ+ and trans rights, there has been this uprising in people who want to feel special. So they create these bullshit pronouns because they want to be different and benefit some way in our victim economy. Sure, some will argue that abstract pronouns have been around since whatever many years ago, but they weren’t relevant then and they’re not relevant now, and bitching and moaning about them will not make them any more relevant, especially when the basis of this phenomenon isn’t centered around sincerity.
Neopronouns are essentially social bear traps put in place by wimpy, university-gender-studies-indoctrinated know-it-alls to confuse us, so when we forget to refer to someone as a fucking tree, they can snap the trap shut and claim they’re being oppressed. Sure, we can pretend all we want that this isn’t the case, and we can even pamper and encourage this nonsense in fear of being called transphobic, but we all know the truth. Because again, victim economy is a very real thing. You enjoy having something to complain about. As YouTuber Acheeto said in his video, your reasoning for this mess is to “rationalize your extreme anger towards everyone.”
Not to mention, it’s narcissistic to believe someone should refer to you as bee/beeself — or whatever you think we should call you. Let’s take legit trans people who want to be called he/him, she/her, and they/them out of the discussion and focus on you. Do you really expect everyone to completely deconstruct the way people speak to satisfy your own victim fantasy and buffoonery? Please.
Furthermore, do you know how insulting it is for those who are actually trans to have to place their lived experience in the same category as some university safe-space rat looking for attention on TikTok? (And if you go by rat/ratself, bye.)
Let’s also address the fact that your neopronouns are rooted in left-leaning identity politics. You equate being queer to being liberal, and liberal being humanity, and humanity not representing anyone who holds right-wing politics. Your creation and self-proclaiming of these neopronouns solely exists as a political antithesis to people like Ben Shapiro. Why? Because you enjoy pissing people like Ben Shapiro off. And then when people like Ben Shapiro get angry, you take it as an opportunity to cry oppression.
When you romanticize the idea of suffering like legit trans people and conflate said fabricated pronouns with political opposition, you’re actually harming the trans community. Why? Because those on the right associate your ego and narcissism with the trans rights movement, thus creating push back. Because let’s be real about it: you’re a weird, sad, egotistical, immature, cringeworthy glutton for punishment who comes off as a total nutcase to people like Joe Doe who enjoy getting off work and stopping by the diner for a cup of coffee. When Joe Doe sees you claiming to be trans (when in actuality you’re just an anime-character wannabe), Joe Doe thinks the trans rights movement is not only a joke but a political force seeking to deconstruct the very nature of the way he speaks and how his family speaks. And then he votes against (real) trans people.
Finally, don’t pretend you’re not influenced by celebrity trends of elitists musicians and movie stars who “come out” as they/them. We all know they are just following a trend so they can gain some incentive from victim economy, even if it’s a modicum. You being “inspired” by the uninspired is pathetic. (I mean, do you really believe Sam Smith’s and Demi Lovato’s lives are jeopardized just because they call themselves they/them? Give me a break.)
This is why I’m not using your neopronouns. I refuse to entertain this rapid narcissism originating from Tumblr blogs. It is damaging and incendiary to trans lives.
If you’re offended by my commentary, then you need to pull the treeself out of your ass. Or keep it in there, I don’t really care.
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TRANSGENDERISM IS THE NEW STATE BOLSHEVIK SUPREMACIST RACISM!
THE BATTLE OF TRANSEVIL VERSUS TRANSGOOD!
TRANSWHITE LORD OF THE RINGS!
Lord of the Rings: Debunking the Backlash Against Non-White Actors in Amazon’s Adaption
Adaptations are original cultural entities that can imitate, question, re-write, or reinterpret their source material for new audiences.
The Conversation- Dimitra Fimi
- Mariana Rios Maldonado
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Sofia Nomvete as the dwarven Princess Disa. Photo by Amazon Prime
J.R.R. Tolkien’s much-loved fantasy The Lord of the Rings is a work of epic scale, portraying races of imaginary beings in the medievalesque setting of Middle-earth, culminating in a battle of good against evil. Peter Jackson’s film adaptations in the early 2000s established the iconography and aesthetics that many fans grew up with and consider almost sacred.
Now Amazon’s adaptation of Tolkien’s world is coming to our screens in September 2022: The Lord of the Rings – The Rings of Power. Certain reports and teasers have revealed more details about plotlines, ramping up the anticipation.
But it is the diverse casting, which includes non-white actors playing an elf and a female dwarf, which has caused uproar in certain quarters of Tolkien fandom. Some fans argue that Tolkien never described elves, dwarves or hobbits as anything but white, and claim that the casting is disrespectful to his books. But this argument is flawed in two ways.
First, these are imaginary creatures which are not always clearly described in the original books – Tolkien was more interested in metaphysical than biological questions. Still, there is some evidence of dark-skinned elves and hobbits in drafts of The Silmarillion and the prologue of The Lord of the Rings.
Second, even if Tolkien had specified that all elves, dwarves and hobbits were white, it still wouldn’t matter. Adaptations are original cultural products that can imitate, question, rewrite or interpret source material in various ways. Each adaptation is a new text. And each is an opportunity to update outdated and unacceptable tropes, and find ways to represent and normalise non-white characters.
Reinventing Tolkien for the 21st Century
As adaptation theory scholar Linda Hutcheon has shown, adaptations offer “the pleasure of repetition with variation”. For example, in 2005 the Nigerian-British actor David Oyelowo was cast as Prometheus in the Greek tragedy, Prometheus Bound.
This version of the play presented audiences with a Black Prometheus in chains, bringing to mind images of slavery, adding a further layer of complexity to the Titan who suffered for humanity. It will be interesting to see how Amazon will use these casting choices to interpret, critique or expand Tolkien’s world.
But as disgruntled fans might reason, if Amazon must have a diverse cast in this drama, why not stick to having actors of colour playing the characters who are dark-skinned in Tolkien’s texts? But that would perpetuate and reinforce the racialised view of good and evil in Middle-earth. Despite Tolkien’s overall message of friendship and co-operation, and despite his raging against the Nazis, the face of evil in Middle-earth is invariably non-white/non-European.
Tolkien’s portrayal of the Orcs (legions of evil creatures) and the men who ally themselves with Sauron (the arch-villain of LOTR) uses many stereotypes associated with orientalism and the language of prejudice often found in literature from the era of British imperialism (Tolkien was born and grew up in the late Victorian and Edwardian periods). Reproducing this white/non-white divide along moral lines would endorse a very old fashioned and harmful equation of physical characteristics with moral choices.
The prospect of a new production with non-white characters has got some purist Tolkien fans in a fankle. Amazon
‘But Tolkien Would Have Hated It!’
Even if we somehow knew what Tolkien would have thought about the new Amazon series, it wouldn’t matter. The author sold the rights to The Lord of the Rings during his lifetime and signed away his right to have a substantial influence over any new adaptation.
But some believe Tolkien was writing a “a mythology for England”, and used myths and texts from Germanic cultures that had nothing to do with people of colour. However, Tolkien never actually referred to his own work in this way. This phrase was introduced by his biographer, Humphrey Carpenter.
In a 1951 letter to a potential editor, Milton Waldman, Tolkien stated that he had intended to dedicate his work to England, but in the same letter also wrote that he wanted to leave space for “other minds and hands” to contribute to his mythology.
But why would audiences these days think of England as white anyway? The country has become a vibrant melting pot of which people of colour are very much a part. Why would an contemporary adaption not reflect that?
In any case, the idea that people of colour were not part of Britain or Northern Europe in the ancient and medieval past is false. There is plenty of evidence of diversity in Roman Britain, for example. As for the Vikings, they were not a homogenous or “pure” racial group (especially due to trade and raids).
Tolkien as a 24-year-old British Army lieutenant in 1916. WIkipedia, CC BY
More recently, films such as Thor, based on the superheroes from Marvel Comics show figures of Norse mythology played by Black actors Idris Elba and Tessa Thompson. Why should an adaption of Tolkien’s literary work not do the same?
Any new adaptation of such a beloved fantasy world as Tolkien’s is bound to disappoint some of the more “purist” fans, but adaptations are products of their times and a re-envisioning of the original material they are based on.
Once it airs, the new Amazon series will be critiqued by academics and fans alike for many of its choices regarding plot, characterisation and setting. But judging the casting based on skin colour and claiming Middle-earth as exclusively white is not just misguided, it clearly exposes what researcher Helen Young has called fantasy’s “habits of whiteness”.
As a popular element of 21st-century culture, fantasy’s issues with race, racism and white privilege are subjects the genre has not yet fully addressed. Amazon’s new series is a step in the right direction.
Dimitra
Fimi is a senior lecturer in Fantasy and Children’s Literature,
Co-Director, Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic at the University of
Glasgow. Mariana Rios Maldonado is a PhD candidate in Comparative
Literature at the University of Glasgow.
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