Webdeveloper from Germany, nerd, gamer, atheist, interested in nerd-culture, biology of everything creepy, evolution, history, physics, politics and space.

Progressive. Ally. SocDem. Euro-Federalist.

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  • To quote Tim Minchin:

    Isn’t this enough?
    Just this world?
    Just this
    Beautiful, complex, wonderfully unfathomable, natural world?
    How does it so fail to hold our attention that we have to diminish it with the invention of
    Cheap, man-made myths and monsters?
    If you’re so into your Shakespeare
    Lend me your ear
    “To gild refined gold
    To paint the lily
    To throw perfume on the violet
    Is just fucking silly”
    Or something like that
    Or what about Satchmo?!
    “I see trees of Green
    Red roses too”
    And fine, if you wish to glorify Krishna and Vishnu in a post-colonial, condescending bottled-up and labeled kind of way then whatever, that’s ok
    But here’s what gives me a hard-on
    I am a tiny
    Insignificant, ignorant bit of carbon
    I have one life
    And it is short and unimportant
    But thanks to recent scientific advances
    I get to live twice as long as my great great great great uncleses and auntses
    Twice as long
    To live this life of mine
    Twice as long to love this wife of mine
    Twice as many years of friends and wine
    Of sharing curries and getting shitty at good-looking hippies with fairies on their spines and butterflies on their titties

    I know it’s about superstition, new-age nonsense and “spirituality”, not other planets. But it’s just so on point to me for everything where we fail to appreciate this wonderful world around us.














  • Yes, in that stereotype being worldly and educated is presented as foreign, urban, sinful, often depraved and in contrast to the supposed “purity” of small-town innocence and virginity. Remember that these stereotypes originated in the 1950s and are mostly the result of puritan, white, middle class, anglo-saxon, protestant worldviews. It’s the reason that so many villains in american movies (among others Shere Khan, Jafar and Scar) have british accents, while the heroes (like Aladdin) talk with a midwestern accent.






  • Imho. queer coding means “can be read as queer” (but doesn’t have to be) while a stereotype would be a queer person displaying stereotypical attributes.

    I mean… those are bad stereotypes, the overwhelming number of gay people I have ever met do not express most of those attributes, they mainly exist because they were used to vilify queer people during the times of the Hayes Code and because when TV wasn’t allowed to show queerness, theater still was, so queer media became dominated by the theatrical.