Bohemian Rhapsody. We Will Rock You. Somebody To Love. All hit singles, and all the direct product of a band that was formed when an astrophysicist and a dentistry major found a new friend in an art college, who then went on to recruit a fourth member from the electronics school. Based on this alliance I propose the rift in society between Arts and STEM students was fabricated to keep us separated so as to dilute our true power – and fabricated by who, you may ask? The business major, the only member of society who reaps no reward from art and science and thus must weaken us so as to stay ahead. In this essay I will
and ableist. Ableist as fuck, from every conceivable angle. I don’t have the energy to list all the ways it shits on disabled people. Even for non-spoonies… being sick means you can’t do shit, but instead you’re supposed to do more shit like going to the doctor/getting a note? How logical!
Then there’s the aspect of involving health care professionals. Given what we know about medical professionals’ assumptions regarding the health of Black people (they don’t feel pain!) and of women (they’re hysterical!), it is by default racist and misogynistic; likewise, it’s inherently queerphobic and fatphobic (ask me how my dad died!) because that’s what doctors tend to be.
(this is of course also ignoring the basic level of “stupid as shit” – no one needs a doctor to tell them if they’ve got a fever, that’s what thermometers are for)
Sometimes my students (who are teachers) will put this in their syllabi, and I get to explain why it’s unacceptable – typically by invoking my own shitty health.
the thing that pisses me off about 50 shades of grey isn’t that it’s twilight fanfiction, it’s that it’s bad ooc twilight fanfiction. the implication that edward would be into bdsm is so fucking dumb he’s a 100 year old virgin who cried and went into a week-long depression the first time he fucked bella he wouldn’t even consider the idea of fucking her until they were married because he didn’t want to compromise his virtue and you’re telling me he’s a dom? no, edward cullen has the most boring vanilla sex ever the only thing unconventional about the way bella and edward fuck is that bella tops and edward cries the whole time and bella gets fed up and goes to the other house to fuck rosalie and edward cries some more in his room alone
Death By Catchphrase 