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All about classics online and in pop culture. Tweets by Ben (β), Jermaine (Γ), Theo (Θ), Vanessa (Ψ), and Nicolette (ν). Archaia Olympia, Greece Joined March 2021-
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Ever wonder why people say Jesus rose three days later despite dying on Friday? Many ancient societies count inclusively, so when you count down to an event, count *both* the day you are on AND the day the event happens. Died on Friday (1), Saturday (2), rises on Sunday (3).
Expecting female artists to be vessels of pure expression is sexist, especially when male artists get praised for their inventiveness and craft… But the problem is that when any artist becomes an institution, they’re more product than person
Expecting female artists to be vessels of pure expression is sexist, especially when male artists get praised for their inventiveness and craft… But the problem is that when any artist becomes an institution, they’re more product than person
Palestinians are not starving, they are being intentionally starved by Israel and the countries which suspended funding for @UNRWA - my exclusive interview with @MichaelFakhri theguardian.com/world/2024/feb…
After watching it a few times, I now think Barbie is in fact a fantastic feminist film, but only if read *extremely* cynically. The ideological contradictions don’t undermine its message. The contradictions ARE the message screenrant.com/weird-barbie-d…
Barbie is dead. Long live Barbie
When were straight people invented? A thread about History & Pride
If I were teaching a rhetoric class rn, I’d actually make them watch this video because this is actually the most fascinating response vid I’ve seen in years.
If I were teaching a rhetoric class rn, I’d actually make them watch this video because this is actually the most fascinating response vid I’ve seen in years.
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964 Followers 436 Following Associate Prof of Classics, author of Ennius Noster: Lucretius and the Annales (OUP, 2021), all opinions are mine, tweets delete after 30 daysExpecting female artists to be vessels of pure expression is sexist, especially when male artists get praised for their inventiveness and craft… But the problem is that when any artist becomes an institution, they’re more product than person
I don’t think B has had many experiences in life! Not material experiences, emotional and social ones. B been living a one note life and you can hear it! You gotta have experiences to make music w lyrical depth. And I don’t get that from this album. Dance songs always hit tho
Ok. I confess. I killed Homer. It was me.
After watching it a few times, I now think Barbie is in fact a fantastic feminist film, but only if read *extremely* cynically. The ideological contradictions don’t undermine its message. The contradictions ARE the message screenrant.com/weird-barbie-d…
Mattel didn’t miss the point of the movie. The movie was made for one reason, to sell Barbies. It doesn’t matter what we think of it, as long as we consume. It is beautifully, tragically empty.
Bc of this, the format of Barbie being a 2 hour girly-pop Mattel ad is brilliant, and the discourse proves its point: Barbie is whatever we project onto it. So when people object to Mattel profiting off of Barbies like weird Barbie, they are again reckoning with the tension
When Barbie meets Ruth Handler, she doesn’t conclude that she as Barbie is a great thing that the world needs. It’s that women’s humanity is too complex to be contained in a symbol so manipulable. Because of this, she decides to destroy herself as a Barbie
Gerwig is very open-eyed about this, and it’s what makes the film so great. The discourse about the film and the film itself are all tied up in and replicate the messy contradictions of Barbie’s capital heart and the only way to escape it is to crush all of Barbie’s meaning
From the perspective of the consumer, Barbie has become more feminist, and will get praised for it, but there has been no ideological change on the side of company. Profit remains their only driver.
At the end of the film, when Gloria suggests making “ordinary” Barbies to give women something human to look to, the *still all male* board rejects it immediately because that doesn’t matter to them, but then green light the project when they realize that women will buy them
In 2023 she needed to be a symbol of a feminist transcendence bc it sells, but the only thing keeping her from reverting to a social conservatism are the current desires of the market (and even still, you could argue that her femininity is still conservative in a way)
But it actually says you’re asking the wrong question. Barbie can be both things, but is consistently only one thing: a capitalist symbol that makes men money with its ability to both shape and respond to women’s desires as a symbol of whatever she needs to be at that moment
Throughout the film, it constantly asks “Is Barbie a means for female empowerment or a crushing and unattainable beauty standard?” It never resolves this question. The answer is “yes.”
@postclassics Yeah, <historically, half of men died as virgins> is a hell of a claim. x.com/pellegrinoadic…
Since (Some) people seem Incredibly unable to do inference; What is true of the highest class of women is true also across the spectrum. They're ALL far easier to obtain. "Hoes" were NEVER cheap. Historically Half of men died virgins.
If I were teaching a rhetoric class rn, I’d actually make them watch this video because this is actually the most fascinating response vid I’ve seen in years.
I wake up at 6 a.m. to find that my daughter has posted a TikTok video trashing me. She's a big social media influencer with millions of followers. Here it is . . .
straight people were invented when the gods cleft the children of the moon in two and the disparate halves sought one another. how do people not know this?
When were straight people invented? A thread about History & Pride
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@postclassics I was just teasing. By the way, this is Akkad
other people have takes about the polyamory discourse in the liberal press but my only take is that this seems like a lot of work and i am a fundamentally lazy person. i have a conservative disposition that craves familiarity and routine. please enjoy yourselves; i am very tired
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